american girls, revisited

Those of you familiar with my "work" know that for a time i was invested full time for awhile in the pursuit of teasing the Mattel corporation* for being, you know, disingenuous, weird, money-grubbing, anti-feminist, and kinda mean to me. But I moved on, because of course this turns out not to be Mattel policy—in fact their policies are almost exactly opposite these—but simply a side effect of our corporate culture.

Well, right, and fine, but what's been happening to the little girls flooding the store since, while i've been all off running around investigating the larger implications of copyright and image control and consumerism on the American mindset? Mattel's gone right back to treating them like dirt.

Damn: http://oneofthosehorriblemoms.blogspot.com/2007/03/fake-out.html

* see: http://pocketfullofwishes.blogspot.com
or: http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2006/operation_pocket_full_of_wishes...
or just download the cards: http://www.anneelizabethmoore.com/projects.htm