what is all the rage over the american girl homeless doll about?”
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the New York Post’s Andrea Peyser, she is a very furious person who, today, turned the force of her rage on the latest American Girl Doll – a topical doll: Gwen Thompson, the newest addition to the American Girl family, is homeless. She’s actually a secondary character, a companion to modern Girl of the Year, Chrissa Maxwell. According to Gwen’s official American Girl wiki, Gwen and her mother Janine fell on hard times when her father lost his job; they later lost the house as they were unable to keep up payments. Soon after, Gwen’s father left them and they became homeless the fall before the start of the book’s events. Initially, Gwen’s mother has them live in their car until the winter comes; she then takes them to Sunrise House, a place for homeless women and children. Sunrise House helps them get on their feet and eventually get a new apartment. While Peyser seems to have a bizarre and inherent animosity towards what she terms “these price
Barbie she’s not. Meet Gwen Thompson, the newest addition to the American Girl canon of dolls — the wildly suc cessful, extremely expensive brand of faux children that are sold out of a four-story town house in the heart of Fifth Avenue. Little children as young as 4 are addicted to these pricey little monsters. It’s like middle-American crack. You have an African-American doll, an American Indian doll. A Jewish one. A doll who “lived” during the Great Depression, and one from the Roaring ’20s. And while you were snoozing, the creators of American Girl, which is sold by Mattel, got bold. They engaged in all-out political indoctrination. Snuck into the collection is a doll that comes with a biography that is weird and potentially offensive enough to keep Mom running to the Maalox. Gwen, you see, is harboring a terrible secret. She is homeless. A homeless doll. In the history books that come with every American Girl doll — bringing to life these little monsters until impressionable lit
