WTF in America
Jul 18th 2014, 1:49 am
#931
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Re: WTF in America
Sorry, obviously everyone else thinks they're cute.
Maybe I've forgotten what I did at that age. I feel some mockery would have been involved if I'd had those. Very girly things do seem to have become more fashionable.
Jul 18th 2014, 3:07 am
#932
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Re: WTF in America
I suspect it was probably the opposite way round though....I have 2 main WTFs about the AG dolls though....
1- the price. And the amount of money that must flow into that brand....phenomenally busy just about any time of they year.
2- why does my neighbor (Brit) feel the need to take her own AG doll out shopping just because her 7 and 9 year olds are taking theirs.
....I sincerely hope my daughter has grown out of that long before she hits her 40s
actually, before she hits her teens.......
Jul 18th 2014, 9:39 am
#933
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Re: WTF in America
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Sorry, obviously everyone else thinks they're cute.
Maybe I've forgotten what I did at that age. I feel some mockery would have been involved if I'd had those. Very girly things do seem to have become more fashionable.
Sorry, obviously everyone else thinks they're cute.
Maybe I've forgotten what I did at that age. I feel some mockery would have been involved if I'd had those. Very girly things do seem to have become more fashionable.
But kids are different, have their own feelings & attractions to various toys.
The AG dolls seem fine, more appropriate than some ....
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Jul 18th 2014, 10:21 am
#934
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Re: WTF in America
Chucky would like 'em... 
Jul 18th 2014, 1:30 pm
#935
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Re: WTF in America
Aren't dollies supposed to be babies that drink out of fake bottles, then piss themselves so little girls can find out what abject hell parenting can be?
Otherwise, what's the point, right ...
Otherwise, what's the point, right ...
Jul 18th 2014, 4:29 pm
#936
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Re: WTF in America
'American Girl' dolls.
Creeped me out being near their store today.
Surely girls of 10/11/12 shouldn't be walking around holding dolls?
And the girls all looked the same too.
http://sweetdollshop.com/wp-content/...ot-cropped.jpg
Creeped me out being near their store today.
Surely girls of 10/11/12 shouldn't be walking around holding dolls?
And the girls all looked the same too.
http://sweetdollshop.com/wp-content/...ot-cropped.jpg
Jul 18th 2014, 4:36 pm
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Re: WTF in America
Thank God it's not just me...it was the like the Midwich Cuckoos or something wandering around with their familiars.
Jul 18th 2014, 4:40 pm
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Re: WTF in America
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Sorry, obviously everyone else thinks they're cute.
Maybe I've forgotten what I did at that age. I feel some mockery would have been involved if I'd had those. Very girly things do seem to have become more fashionable.
Sorry, obviously everyone else thinks they're cute.
Maybe I've forgotten what I did at that age. I feel some mockery would have been involved if I'd had those. Very girly things do seem to have become more fashionable.
Jul 18th 2014, 7:36 pm
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Re: WTF in America
My daughter got into them a few years ago. American Girl dolls are vastly overpriced. They all have the same two buckteeth expression. Even the black, Hispanic, and Asian versions are the same, with only tiny differences other than skin colour, and there is only one of each compared to the 30-odd variations on white girls. The books that aren't based on a particular doll are quite weird, featuring a main gang of rich white girls (their target market of course) and the occasional person of colour is in the background but never speaks. There is absolutely no mention of boys at all, even as friends or brothers, although a man is sometimes featured. It is like some throwback to several decades ago.
Toys R Us and Target have their own versions at the same scale, which are a third of the price and similar quality, and a better racial balance.
Toys R Us and Target have their own versions at the same scale, which are a third of the price and similar quality, and a better racial balance.
Jul 18th 2014, 9:27 pm
#942
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Re: WTF in America
WTF is it with the butter and bread???
Far too much sugar in bread products and as for the butter I don't even know where to begin!
Far too much sugar in bread products and as for the butter I don't even know where to begin!
Jul 19th 2014, 11:34 am
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Re: WTF in America
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Sorry, obviously everyone else thinks they're cute.
Maybe I've forgotten what I did at that age. I feel some mockery would have been involved if I'd had those. Very girly things do seem to have become more fashionable.
Sorry, obviously everyone else thinks they're cute.
Maybe I've forgotten what I did at that age. I feel some mockery would have been involved if I'd had those. Very girly things do seem to have become more fashionable.
The company I work for sells clothes patterns for the dolls with matching outfits for their owners. I suppose it's like the mommy/daughter dress-alike thing that I also find to be a WTF America.
Jul 19th 2014, 11:38 am
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Re: WTF in America
Not everyone. I think they're hideous and I loved playing with dolls when I was a child.
The company I work for sells clothes patterns for the dolls with matching outfits for their owners. I suppose it's like the mommy/daughter dress-alike thing that I also find to be a WTF America.
The company I work for sells clothes patterns for the dolls with matching outfits for their owners. I suppose it's like the mommy/daughter dress-alike thing that I also find to be a WTF America.