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drydreams

I wanna be soft with someone and not regret it after

i-am-a-fish

everyone who reads this post will get some big spicy joy within 24 large minutes (hours)

2samuel1427

born222die

natsujutsu

Toonami:

Black Lives Matter.

mykey-20

takeyourmascoff

Fucking TOONAMI. I’m about to cry. My childhood just spoke some deep as truth.

ja-elle-deactivated20220308

I’m not 😭

persephones24

Fuck yeah. My childhood speaking truths 😭

gahdamnpunk

American Girl stories were the best tbh

that-catholic-shinobi

Dude, read the books, she and her mom freed themselves in Book 1. We don’t disrespect American Girl in this house

allthefandomss

Don’t you dare disrespect Addy, or any of my girls for that matter. American Girl used to be legit. Good stories, good dolls, good movies.

smugkoalas

Felicity’s story was set in the beginnings of the American Revolution, and addressed the conflict that she faced when her loved ones were split between patriots and loyalists. It also covered the effects of animal abuse, and forgiving those who are unforgivable.

Samantha’s stories centered around the growth of industrial America, women’s suffrage, child abuse, and corruption in places of power. Also, it emphasises how dramatically adoption into a caring family can turn a life around.

Kit’s story is one of my favorites. Her family is hit hard by the Great Depression, and they begin taking in boarders and raise chickens to help make ends meet. Her books include themes of poverty, police brutality, homelessness, prejudice, and the importance of unity in difficult times.

Molly’s father, a doctor, is drafted during the Second World War. Throughout her story, friends of hers suffer the loss of their husbands, sons, and brothers overseas. Her mother leaves the traditional housewife position and works full-time to help with the war effort. They also take in an English refugee child, who learns to open up after a life of traumatic experience.

American Girl stories have always featured the very harsh realities of America through the years. But they’re always presented honestly, yet in ways that kids can understand. They just go to show that you don’t have to live in a perfect time to be a real American girl.

chaos-in-the-making

Dont you fucking dare disrespect the American Girls in my house. ESPECIALLY Addy!! That was my first REAL contact with the horrors of slavery, as I read about her father being whipped and sold and her mother escaping with her to freedom, but also how freedom was still a struggle.

A slave doll. Please. Read the books.

ironwoman359

Don’t forget Kirsten, the Swedish immigrant who had to deal with balancing her own culture and learning the english language and customs of her classmates, or Kaya (full name Kaya'aton'my, or She Who Arranges Rocks) , the brave but careless girl from the Nez Perce tribe, or Josefina, the Mexican girl learning to be a healer.

And then there are the later dolls, that kids younger than me would have grown up with (I was just outgrowing American Girl as these came out), like Rebecca, the Jewish girl who dreams of becoming an actress in the budding film industry, or Julie, who fights against her school’s gender policy surrounding sports in the 70s, or Nanea, the Hawaiian girl whose father worked at Pearl Harbor.

These books, these characters, are fantastic pictures into life for girls in America throughout the years, they pull no punches with the horrors that these girls had to face in their different time periods, and in many cases I learned more history from these series than social studies at school. And that’s without even mentioning the “girl of the year” series where characters are created in the modern world to help girls deal with issues like friend problems, moving, or bullying. We do NOT disrespect American Girl in this house.

razzleberryjam

American Girl is probably going to be the only exposure young girls are going to get to history from a female perspective. This is actually kind of important considering that in history classes we dont really get that exposure. We dont hear about what women felt and endured during these time periods cause schools are too busy teaching us about what happened from the male perspective, which is not unimportant, but we need both. Girls need both.

star-linedsoul

These books were such a crucial part of my childhood and shaped my love of history, which still ensures today. These books can be a young girl’s first lessons in diversity and cultural awareness (hopefully burying that insensitive “we’re all Americans” tripe) and looking at history from more perspectives than just that taught in school. They also are an example of how women have ALWAYS been part of history, which some people would rather us not believe.

I think Kit and Kaya were the newest American Girls when I started “aging out” of the books, but hearing about some of these kinda makes me want to revisit them!

breezeinmonochromenight

I wasn’t gonna say anything, but you know what?

Nah.

OP (of the tweet thread) was either a actively trying to start shit or is just a huge fucking moron. Probably both.

I’d like to point out that the company that makes American Girl dolls actually doesn’t skimp when doing their research and they don’t make the dolls with the intent to be offensive in any way:

bookishbathingbeauty

Growing up as a second generation Hispanic girl who read voraciously, I will never forget the first time I saw myself reflected in a main character - Josefina.

That series meant the world to me (I still have all six books).

Plus, here, in the US, the books were also published in Spanish!

d-cookie-deactivated20210317

They were!!! And It gets better!!!

The writer even went to New Mexico to and spent a couple months living their so they could interview all these older/elderly Hispanic women to know about their lives now and how their lives were growing up.

aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202

Have they done any LGBT girls yet?

peachykopii

I don’t think so, then again I don’t really pay attention when they release new dolls

ghost-slut18

They also have accessories, like a cane, diabetes kit, wheelchair, arm braces, and hearing aids. You can also buy dolls that are bald, have a cleft lip, and have prosthetic legs

peachykopii

Mhm!

imgonnagocryinthebathroomhomies

as a kid i was obsessed with this dolls and books tho i could never actually get one cause they were too expensive i had my fun looking up the stories in google. history centered on a female perspective?? that shit’s my jam.

altr5312916195

More recently they also have male dolls, dolls with dyed hair, female dolls with short hair, and a few queer coded dolls. So at the very least you can hope one day they’ll confirm Julie as a lesbian and or bisexual

blackfeministthot

it looks like his lecture series got more popular!

nevver

behind--these--walls

sugarwalls630

Absolutely

nonbinary-hawke-deactivated2021

Everyone talks about the school to prison pipeline but no one talks about the school to military pipeline and how it’s explicitly built into the school system, particularly the No Child Left Behind Act which requires that federally funded schools give the military the same access to students and student information as colleges and potential employers have.

If your school has ever had military presentations or tables or booths, or you’ve been outright stalked by military recruiters who got your information from your school, then you have NCLB to thank for that.

arctic-hands

I have said this many many times but…Military recruiters came to my class in the FOURTH GRADE and showed us videos of how cool it was in the military. I CRIED because I was told my chronic conditions would keep me out of the air force.

Let me repeat, I was nine

was this an under-funded public school? why yes it was why do you ask

why-fren

This isn’t even mentioning JROTC (Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps) programs. They actively encourage nationalism and military ideals. Sure, lots of people don’t go into the military after the program but it actively brainwashes youth the same way.

synaptichazard

…For someone who has spoken to many recruiters and done my fair of research on ths topic, this “pipeline” is a solid option for those who generally desire to do it. For enlisted, you get paid a decent salary, your medical care is paid for, and depending on your time spent in service you can go to college debt free on a GI bill. Yes, maybe the military’s methods of enticing you to join are somewhat comparable to a car salesman’s pitch on a car that’s scratched on the outside but actually works just fine when it runs. This is my opinion, but I believe that military duty will always be a respectful path, so long as you yourself stay respectful inside the power given to you by the military.

ALSO, do not feel bad if health problems keep you from joining, these rules are to protect you and keep you safe.

Rant over.

nonbinary-hawke-deactivated2021

As someone who is from a military family, the US military is an imperialistic system built on black and brown bodies that preys on the vulnerable (particularly Native communities) and convinces them that killing and exploiting both foreign and local communities is the right thing to do.

The US military lies to your face, spends countless dollars spreading propaganda, uses people as tools for imperialism, and leaves the survivors traumatized with no support systems. I have seen firsthand how it treats veterans, particularly those who were told enlisting was their only option, because most of the Native men in my family were chewed up and spit back out and left to flounder by this goddamn country.

Also, from personal experience in my own direct interactions with the military, recruiters are fucking predators, especially when they she’ll vulnerability. They lie and smile while they do it, spinning lovely little tales about free college and great job opportunities and insisting that combat is never necessary, as if that’s realistic at all. When you reject them, you’re fucking stalked.

You get letters and phone calls. You get facebook requests and emails. You get taken aside by teachers and counselors and piled with pamphlets covered in smiling soldiers. You get texts from unknown numbers and visits home from recruiters. You get pulled out of class to talk to them. This goes on for years. You are never left alone because they know you’re vulnerable and all it takes is a single push for someone to throw their life away for this fucking country, as if any of it means anything.

You think that convincing teenagers that murdering brown people overseas for oil, overthrowing democratically elected governments, and covering up countless war crimes is justified and right is comparable to… a used car salesman. You have been fed propaganda and instead of spitting it back out, you happily swallowed it up and then regurgitated it back out to feed other people.

Tldr; the military is fucking evil, this country doesn’t care about soldiers or anyone else for that matter, and you’re spreading propaganda hoping that people will eat it up and ignore facts.