No, Really: SRS BZNS!

[bloodyrosemccoy]

I imagine that being a somewhat sane doll collector is a bit like being a somewhat sane furry—you get tossed in with the batshit ones who you actually despise. I really dislike a lot of American Girl/doll fans. They’re inarticulate and clueless and a bit Stepfordy.

That being said, here’s a fan I like (thanks to kittikattie, another fan I like). Watch her lay the smackdown on an idiot who didn’t do her homework about the company, who has that book-banning tendency not to understand the difference between “subject” and “what you say about the subject,”* who is spectacularly clueless about actual cultures, and who waves her biracial daughter around like the national flag of SeeI’mNotRacistopia.

Keep going for the surprise ending, too. How is Clueless Lady’s solution in any way an actual solution? How will this communicate to her daughter that she disapproves of AG so damn much? And if she decides her moral objections aren't strong enough to bother with the battle, why the knockoff? If she was wanting to avoid confrontation by not sitting the kid down and saying “You can’t get the doll you want, here’s why,” just wait until the other girls take it upon themselves to inform the daughter that Knockoff Doll Is Knockoff. I think “Mommy thinks I’m gullible and I can't trust Mommy” is going to be a much more difficult lesson in the long run than “Mommy sticks to her ethics.”


*Boils down to a book saying “Slavery is bad” and the banninators going “OMG YOU SAID SLAVERY! BAN!”

Comments

[evilcresyluna.livejournal.com]

I think I mentioned before, I had friend in my cadre growing up whose mother didn't believe the money was worth it for the AG dolls. Now, friend was a bit older than 1st grade, I think we were in the 10-12 year old ranges here, so understood that her mom just didn't want to spend the money. Said friend could have, at that age, saved up her pennies and bought one herself, but instead of played with the $15 doll for a few years and then lost it to time. My Samantha and my sister's Molly are somewhere safe, and doubtless will be passed along if someone shows interest in them. I wouldn't sell mine, anyway. But seriously, one doll = <2 video games, claiming people should NEVER spend that kind of money on their children is a little silly. The rest of the post was just insanity, I mean I wasn't huge into the dolls and kind of lost interest right after Josephina came out, so I'm not familiar with the backstories and stuff, but come on, they're better back stories than "Barbie likes Nascar!" :P

[ellixis.livejournal.com]

BJD fandom gets the batshit crazies, too. I don't go on doll forums anymore; obsessive, crazy and weird is uncomfortably common.

[thewrongcrowd.livejournal.com]

????

Blow Job Doll?

;) Sorry. I'll go back to my corner now.

[ellixis.livejournal.com]

XD Ball Joint Doll. Though the way some people carry on ...

[kittikattie.livejournal.com]

I imagine that being a somewhat sane doll collector is a bit like being a somewhat sane furry—you get tossed in with the batshit ones who you actually despise.

*is a sane doll collecting furry* D= I am truely the rarest of peoples.

[ellixis.livejournal.com]

:o I salute you, my kindred.

[flutterbychild.livejournal.com]

You=win!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this really isn't helping your tireless insistence that you actually exist, you know. ;)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wastrel/]

I imagine that being a somewhat sane doll collector is a bit like being a somewhat sane furry
I appreciate the thought, even though I'm not always certain where the line between sane and insane really is.

“Mommy thinks I’m gullible and I can't trust Mommy”
I agree it's a difficult lesson, and although I wish there was a better one to learn, frankly I don't think children should trust anyone ever, and their parents least of all, exceptions to that being what they are.