Saturday Smackdown: Erasing the ‘Girl’ from ‘American Girl’
Each week, Martin Mawyer takes top news stories and gives them a painful Saturday smackdown. So here are the Smackdown lashings for the week of 12.5.22.
Erasing the ‘Girl’ from ‘American Girl’
Body image is everything to a teenage girl. I should know; I raised three of them.
But is body image of utmost importance to an 8-year-old girl? I don’t think so. The only thing they want to change is the parental settings on their cell phones, not their physical bodies.
But not so fast, says the popular American Girl doll brand, which sells 30 million dolls a year to little girls. In their latest book, “Smart Girl’s Guide: Body Image,” the titan doll company believes pre-teen girls have other things to worry about than cell phones, TikTok, or their hairstyles.
They need to worry about their body image or, more specifically, their gender.
Sounds like they’re trying to erase the “girl” from “American Girl.”
“The way you show your gender to the world through clothes and behaviors is your gender expression,” the female pre-pubescents are told. And that means (are you ready for it) gender change!
Yes, America…