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- MissPinkKate, on 10/12/2007, -5/+155What kind of monster could make a 6 year old child cry over something like this? Just disgusting.
- cyrix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+102They're not dolls! They're action figures!!!!!
- walkingdogs, on 10/12/2007, -4/+80I HATE "rich bitches"
- futureisours, on 10/12/2007, -3/+70if you ever are lucky enough to have a beautiful daughter, see how you will feel if someone does this to her. it's all relative, for her, getting the doll's hair done is no more silly than the importance you place at say leveling your World of Warcraft character to 70.
- Itazura, on 10/12/2007, -3/+67The real bright side to this story is that this cold hearted ***** styles little girls dolls for a living, now that is a pathetic job.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -28/+90What kind? The kind found in corporate America, thats what kind.
- Gadren, on 10/12/2007, -3/+62Sickening -- I swear, my faith in humanity is being eroded every day.
- bennyboy371, on 10/12/2007, -3/+43If I ever have a daughter and someone breaks her heart like that, tells her that her doll was fake, then makes her feel like she didn't belong, you can be sure I'll throw the "don't punch a woman" rule out the window.
- freehunter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+37A woman took her kid to the store. The kid bought a doll. The mom took her to a doll hairstylist. The stylist refused to style the doll's hair because it wasn't their brand of doll. The other people in line mocked the girl. It's over. Everyone looks pissed.
- samnetwork, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36"One mom just smiled and said "Well, American Girl Dolls aren't for everyone, you know.""
What a freaking bitch! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36Let them know how you feel:
Start with an email from the website:
http://www.americangirl.com/emailus/index.html
Or contact them directly:
American Girl L.L.C.
8400 Fairway Place
Middleton WI 53562-2548
phone (608)836-4848
fax (608)836-1999
Or, feel free to call/email the president of the corporation: (gotta love Google)
Ellen L. Brothers
President, American Girl LLC
8400 Fairway Place
Middleton, WI 53562
Tel: 1-800-845-0005
Fax: 608-828-4790
E-Mail: ellen.brothers@americangirl.com
Keep in mind this company is owned by Mattel. And after reading some of the Annual Report, American Girl is making the a boatload of money. - fishpen0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+36The doll is called "American Girl" yet only the small percentage of wealthy Americans can even own one. This doll is supposedly represents every American girl, yet they mock the majority of American girls. Shame on them and those bitches in line that didn't stand up for her.
- senorcool, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34There goes my doll collection...dammit
- Kurisuku, on 10/12/2007, -4/+36I concur.
When you goto NYC regularly, the upper areas, you get used to this type of behavior. They won't serve you coffee at some cafe's based on your clothes, or the way you order, for instance.
But when it's a little girl that has no clue, with parents who obviously have no clue about the elitism in this area of NYC, then it's just ridiculous. Disgusting even. What a rip off. Those 'real' dolls cost over 100 dollars, and the one from target is probably better made ANYWAYS.
Disgusting and heartbreaking. But... Yeah, that's America. Ugh. - Philodox, on 10/12/2007, -4/+34I hope the moms that made fun of the six year old girl get punched in the face.
- waysa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31You don't even want to know what they do if you bring a doll from Wal-Mart in there...
- jobenly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29I have no idea why you would buy your kid a doll worth more than $30 anyway (or spend $20 on styling doll hair). I had some of my best fun as a kid off of those dirt cheap Matchbox cars (actually, probably cheaper ripoffs). Please don't teach your kids that status symbols are worth something. They'll just end up blowing their money on whatever brand replaces Diesel/Abercrombie/Gucci when they grow up to be teenage jerks. Or maybe they'll buy neon lights and spinners for their ricers when they should be saving for college or a down payment on a house.
That's right. All those people nowadays who get their McMansions foreclosed on probably just *had* to have actual Cabbage Patch Dolls as kids, and their parents didn't have the guts to say no.
Teach kids lessons that will make them happier in the long run. Teach them to silently condescend to all those people who need status symbols to feel validated. That lesson is free. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29I'm so offended, I'll go buy their product and services!
- jonathantneal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29>> What kind of monster could make a 6 year old child cry over something like this?
The same kind who thinks to open an upscale store that styles the hair of your ****ing dolls. And then the same kind of person who enforces a standard of dollmanship. I'm mean, there's a particular irony in telling someone that they need a 'real' 'doll'. - oxdeltaxo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27"When you goto NYC regularly, the upper areas, you get used to this type of behavior. They won't serve you coffee at some cafe's based on your clothes, or the way you order, for instance."
Yeah, but then again I'd tell the melvin behind the counter at starbucks to go ***** themselves and get my large coffee, ***** that grande *****. - OutThisLife, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25As boys, we used to collect pokemon cards/play games/etc. Girls like to style their dolls.
So what? It doesn't effect you. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+31rebop I'm not sure why you were modded down but kudos to you for speaking the truth. It is a cold scary world we are in right now. Synthetic and devoid of emotion. Built on money (read: someone else's back) from the ground up.
- SultanTravi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23She was probably just bitter because her job is cutting a doll's ***** hair.
Anyway, SEAL Joe is on the way. - bennyboy371, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21Ladies and gentlemen - pogs. People used to spend money on them. They were idiotic.
If people enjoy something enough, theres money to be made. Especially when it comes to rich families' money spent on their spoiled children. - hematochezia, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2929 comments about how mean and cruel the woman was, and not a single comment about how utterly ridiculous a HAIR SALON FOR DOLLS is.
Come on, guys. Get with it. Let's not lose our perspective here. - Arcan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Remember, the kid saved up to purchase the doll herself.
Even if it were some kind of company policy - they work in toy store! You'd think they'd be able to find a better way to deal with this situation than ridiculing a 6 year old!
And no, it's not the responsibility of the parent to understand the services they will or will not provide upon risk of humiliation.
Side note: I would have ripped those other mothers a new one. I applaud the restraint of the Etta's Mom. - Kurisuku, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16These people claim that American Girl dolls promote healthy representations of what a girl should aspire to.
While Barbie's are unrealistic and bad for a girl's confidence.
That is basically the whole gimmick behind why these ***** sell. - graemee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16She needs a few GI-JOEs with FUNG-FU grip to beat the snot out of her.
- mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Its a doll and thats a 6 year old girl. You dont shame a 6 year old girl because her doll isnt a Cadillac dummy.
- bennyboy371, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Okay, I'll do as you ask. I'll also ignore Lew Rockwell postings, PS3 postings, Wii postings, Apple postings, and everything else that people bitch about. Just for you. Are you happy?
- psyon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Why are you going to starbucks for plain coffee? Then again, why are you going to starbucks at all?
- mannymix03, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13also wtf, that hairstylist thinks they can say that *****?
you ***** are a doll hair stylist, get the ***** over yourself - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Took my own advice and emailed the pres. of this company:
Dear Ms. Brothers,
I am the father of a three year old girl who just loves dolls. So when I read how one of your American Girl shops treated a six year for bringing her NON American Girl doll in to have her hair done, I was furious. I won't bother with the details, but you can read all about it at the consumerist.com (link included). Oh, and in case your wondering how this story got legs, it was Dugg. (link included) As I type this letter on a Friday night at 9pm, this story is on the front page of a website where literally millions of people get their news. And it's only been there 1 hour and 46 minutes. I should also mention that I placed your name, phone number and email address among the 123 (at the time of this memo) very angry comments.
It is heartbreaking when a six year old saves her own money and spends it on a doll, only to be told "This isn't a real doll!" by your store employee. Even after bringing the girl to tears, she still refused to do the dolls hair. And to hear what some of the mothers of the other little girls said just infuriates me. I commend the mother of this little girl for not beating the snot out of your store employee and your patrons. The question is, how do you fix this? I, and many of the Digg community, would like to know.
Most Sincerely,
**********
(TheKidd) - Toon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16Really? You couldn't understand an article about dolls? Too much subtext? Your Internet is a fake!
- drshane, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16I don't feel that it's the company but the NY location that should be contacted again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and againand again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and againand again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again.
1-877-247-5223 - Philodox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13I have no problem with a store refusing service based on products. What I do have issue with is bringing a six year old girl to tears with snobbish behaviour and other parents joining in and making fun of the girl for being "poor". I'm sure it takes a great deal of courage to make fun of a small child.
- acdcfanbill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12wtf, go outside and play, why do kids have to get specific toys and goto certain 'cool' places to have fun anymore.
- greven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Kyle660, it doesn't matter if you've chosen not yo have kids. You were a kid once, yes? And presumably you liked stupid things just the same(lawn darts, maybe? Pogs? yu-gi-oh? GI-joe? depends on your age of course). If you had been 6 and been told that you couldn't participate because of the kind you used, and rudely so, would you have not been hurt? Even if you don't have kids, you were once a kid.
- OutThisLife, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12What a cruel bitch.
- Cam_86, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Yeah, whats up with people having attitude in those kinds of jobs? The most pretentious, arrogant people i have EVER met in life, are the ones who work at trendy stores. Even if Starbucks is a billion dollar company, that does not mean they are worth more then the kid who's working down the street at McDonald's. Yet somehow i get a sarcastic, eye-rolling response when i order a plain coffee. Makes it a lot easier to not tip them.
- TheCount, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13I work for a company that designs and produces modern paper gifts, like note cards, note books, etc. We constantly have problems with Target ripping off our ideas and selling it in their stores, as have other companies in our industry, so I can kind of understand why some people would be fed up about it.
That being said, it's hardly this girls fault, it's idiotic to take it out on her. - GeneralKickass, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13You know what? Jokes aside, these kind of people are just unhappy and discontent with their lives. They go around making other people feel bad just to derive pleasure out of it. I really feel sorry for them. Stupid ignorant dumb *****.
- jobias, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13"Silly Etta, she chose to spend her own money (a mere $29.99!) a few weeks before Christmas last year, on an 18-inch doll at Target."
The title of this article is "Is your Doll From Target....etc". Whether or not the stylist mentioned the word "Target", it still seems to be accurate to me. - Comatose51, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Hopefully punched so badly that they can never inject Botox in those hollow husks that resemble human beings.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11American Girl dolls and Barbie dolls are in two different leagues. I only know this cause of my sister (I swear *nervously looks*) but a Barbie would be something you play with like an action figure. An American Girl doll is a collectible that you really can't do much with except dress and carry with you.
- iduno871, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10If you dumb ***** would RTFA you would see that the 6 year old girl saved her own money to pay for the dolls hair. Her mom wasn't getting it for her.
- Sneakernets, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11because maybe I like to know who/what company employs *****?
- sarahes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10i remember wanting one of those dolls when i was younger..at that time i thought the american girl dolls were awesome. they came with all kinds of accessories that every little girl would want in her collection... i also remember not being able to get one, its so heart breaking. i can relate to a point.
poor girl. - decorker2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11much as pineandpaim thought, the girl was turned away because the hair stylists are taught in training to only style american girl dolls. the dolls from target and the american girl dolls have totally different plastics for their hair. styling the american girl dolls is a lot different than the dolls from target. HOWEVER, this does not make up for the actions the stylist took. what is suppose to happen is the hair stylist pull the mother aside, explain to her that the doll is a "fake," and that they do not usually style her hair. she then goes on to say that, if she does style the hair, because it is not made out of the same material, it could get destroyed. if the mother decides to go ahead and pay the (outrageous) $20 to style it with the chances of it being ruined, then fine. if she decides to explain it to her daughter, that works too.
basically, the hair stylist in that store should be fired. the action she decided to take was horrible. the fact that the other stylists did not add their two cents is bad, as well. how a manager did not get involved in this obviously loud scene, with the little girl crying and customers addings their disgusting words, is beyond me.
the only way i know all this is because i know someone who used to work at the american girl place store in chicago. she used to tell me all sorts of stories about that hair salon. - ninephoenixes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I agree with you on most of your points, but the ridiculous chiding that this little girl and her mother endured are well worth the outrage exhibited here. On top of that, it would not have been hard for the hairstylist to improvise.
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