IDW’s ‘American Girl’ Comic Prompts Polygon to Demand Overweight Doll

Leftist Polygon wrote about a new IDW comic based on Mattel’s American Girl doll franchise, and the author seems to be using the topic to condone obesity, whether it’s based on stealth or not. And also seems to think that short hair and height make this a big discovery:

However, This book highlights one of my biggest reservations about American Girl as a now-adult feminist.. Emma from Hanakata is short with dark hair that turns pink at the ends, framing her round face and complementing her relatively plump figure. Julie is consistent with other American Girl illustrations of the doll: she is slim and slender, with long blonde hair.

But while you can buy a Julie doll, you can’t buy an Emma doll. I tried to create a custom Emma doll on the American Girl website, but I couldn’t find a matching hairstyle or color, or any customization. its small size and thicker silhouetteRegardless, each American Girl doll is predestined to be 18 inches tall with a soft, flat belly and legs that don’t touch.

It’s not that dolls are particularly harmful in their representation — compared to the vast world of big brand dolls, they are not too thinand you can choose from a range of skin tones and hair types. But their homogeneity in body type means that, in media like this comic, the dolls are all depicted in a similar way..

In short: There hasn’t been a big American Girl doll yet, and it’s overdue.For some reason, Gilly and Hanakata chose to represent the main character of Julie and the Blue Guitar as having a different body than Julieand this raises the question: If American Girl’s new graphic novel line can create compelling stories with body diversity, when will American Girl reflect that in its core business?

The book reports on body diversity in a good way —I’m glad that young readers are seeing a smart, intriguing character who is more like them in American Girl media — but Mattel fails to back it up with dolls that also claim that value. It’s a shame that kids have to get creative with their dolls to create stories that fit body diversity in Julie and the Blue Guitar, because the choice to make Emma different makes for a better graphic novel. Why can’t these various shapes and sizes exist for dolls as well??

It seems like the comic isn’t that different from previous IDW comics based on licensed products like Jem and the Holograms. It’s disgusting, mainly because there’s a good chance that obesity is not being portrayed from an objective perspective, taking into account the health issues involved. Which means that, despite what an avowed feminist might claim, it’s not realistic. So, being fat is what the author thinks is a good orientation? Well, that’s just sad. But it’s not surprising in today’s far-left climate, where people are taught primarily in left-wing universities how to disrespect each other, physically and otherwise.

In addition to the way the news site’s editor is promoting a very reprehensible form of “feminism” on a toy franchise with her new comics, one can only wonder how long it will be before she and others like her decide to push the idea that the toy franchise should also remove the word America from its name? And if IDW’s new comic series already contains an example of obesity glorification, that’s certainly a sign that it should be avoided and not encouraged for children to read. It also wouldn’t be shocking if there were already other negative messages hidden within the comic. Assuming that’s the case, it’s curious how obesity isn’t exactly promoted as a role model for boys the way it tragically is for girls in glowing articles like Polygon’s. If IDW is still suffering financially, it’s for exactly this reason, plus how they’re making fools of themselves by only putting so many eggs in one basket of licensed merchandise.

Originally published here