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I’m proud to be an American Girl

I sacrificed a good 30 minutes of my life investigating this new trend of people carrying around creepy dolls at the Grove because I found it to be disturbing and weird (especially these 45 year old women in mom jeans carrying the things by the hand). I could not have predicted what I was about to discover.
Today I decided to investigate why all of the girls under age 14 are walking around the Grove carrying these creepy dolls.

Here I present my data in the form of a photoset. The most important thing to know is that if you buy a doll you can pay someone to do its hair You pay $20 to have someone else style your doll's hair and take it to the hospitalI thought of applying for a job here... when it gets sick.You don’t actually have to imagine anything at all because you can pay people to imagine for you.

Oh and each doll costs $87 and the average cost of the doll’s clothing runs around $25 for one outfit.

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6 Responses to “I’m proud to be an American Girl”

  1. Ohhh…I knew you had to pounce on the AG’s one of these days.

    As much as I do love your site, I have to admit that I’ve long been a fan of the American Girl dolls. I can understand why it seems totally terrifying and weird if you see a bazillion little girls walking around with them at the Grove… But AG (formerly known as Pleasant Company) actually has a nice history that predates its current connections to Mattel. Pleasant Company and its dolls were created to help educate girls with its historical dolls and their books.

    I know there isn’t much I can say to make you think otherwise…but these dolls aren’t that bad. Honestly. But maybe that’s just me being sentimental, and a fan of AG/PC since 1993ish. ;)

    K - October 11th, 2006 at 2:21 am

  2. American Girl dolls are one of the creepiest things I’ve ever seen. Why not just call them, “Baptist Republican Whites-Only Women in the Kitchen Dolls”? The mothers and daughters I see with them have the same glazed expression seen only on “The Stepford Wives”.

    Davezilla - October 11th, 2006 at 3:59 am

  3. i like it that you have a webpage now. i hated reading all the comments from the people on flickr. they kind of creeped me out.

    andrew - October 11th, 2006 at 6:56 am

  4. Mal, you might look into PictoBrowser for multiple photos within a post. I first read about it on /Thomas Hawk’s blog.

    TheSaxMan - October 11th, 2006 at 10:56 am

  5. Doll hair salon? Doll hospital?! What happened to using your own imagination? Get a $5 doll, cut it’s own hair and pop its arms back in yourself if you tear them out, just like I used to when I was a kid. There is no way that I would spend that much money on a doll for my kid to play with, no matter how bad they wanted it.

    wskrz - October 11th, 2006 at 12:36 pm

  6. i never liked dolls, but i didn’t have a teddybear….

    bah - November 9th, 2006 at 4:33 pm

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