Comments on: American Fossil http://www.formerlyhot.com/2009/05/american-fossil/ The tween site for adults Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:33:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Christina http://www.formerlyhot.com/2009/05/american-fossil/comment-page-1/#comment-897 Christina Sun, 10 May 2009 16:10:22 +0000 http://www.formerlyhot.com/?p=464#comment-897 I was annoyed that AmGirl didn't make their historical 1970s girl a girl from Vietnam who came here after the fall of Saigon. Seriously--the Vietnam war is a significant piece of American history, is it not? I know they tried to toss Ivy Ling into the mix, but it's not the same. (Full disclosure: my younger daughter is adopted from Vietnam, so I was especially hoping for the above.) Oh, well, at least Julie has nice hair (the kind I would have KILLED for as I was desperately trying to get my curls to go straight...) I was annoyed that AmGirl didn’t make their historical 1970s girl a girl from Vietnam who came here after the fall of Saigon. Seriously–the Vietnam war is a significant piece of American history, is it not? I know they tried to toss Ivy Ling into the mix, but it’s not the same.

(Full disclosure: my younger daughter is adopted from Vietnam, so I was especially hoping for the above.)

Oh, well, at least Julie has nice hair (the kind I would have KILLED for as I was desperately trying to get my curls to go straight…)

]]> By: Marisa http://www.formerlyhot.com/2009/05/american-fossil/comment-page-1/#comment-895 Marisa Sat, 09 May 2009 20:42:17 +0000 http://www.formerlyhot.com/?p=464#comment-895 Hello from ancient, historical Marisa! We finished reading Meet Julie last night, and I have to say, when Julie talked the "male chauvinist pig" coach into letting her join the boys' basketball team (thanks Title IX!), I felt a surge of girl-power solidarity, since I was one of the first girls in my town's Little League in 1975. So yes, I'm peeved that I'm relegated to the "historical" section of the American Girl megastore, but also kinda proud of the history I was a part of. Anyway, I just picked up a slightly used Felicity at the school auction, so now we're moving from the 1970s into the 1770s. You know, REAL history... Hello from ancient, historical Marisa! We finished reading Meet Julie last night, and I have to say, when Julie talked the “male chauvinist pig” coach into letting her join the boys’ basketball team (thanks Title IX!), I felt a surge of girl-power solidarity, since I was one of the first girls in my town’s Little League in 1975. So yes, I’m peeved that I’m relegated to the “historical” section of the American Girl megastore, but also kinda proud of the history I was a part of. Anyway, I just picked up a slightly used Felicity at the school auction, so now we’re moving from the 1970s into the 1770s. You know, REAL history…

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