Doll Outrage!!
This morning I turned on the news as I always do with my cup of coffee while my daughter is getting ready for school. Normally, I see things on the news that are unbelievable. But, this morning, I saw something that made me furious. Now, we single fathers are always getting the worst of everything, wrong impressions and a bad rap of things. This really cuts it!
There is a company out there called, American Girl. They make and sell dolls that are very expensive and there are many types of these dolls. There are a few dolls that sound cool enough; Such as, an African-American doll that is a slave and escaping and looking for her father and brother. A girl growing up in the Revolutionary War era, a Mexican girl that is trying to preserve her heritage after her mother dies, a Nez Perce girl who is determined to become a better person and various others. Each doll comes with a story, a few books about her. But, American Girl has now come up with a new doll that is really offensive to me and to other single fathers. That doll is called, Gwen Thompson. Her story is about her and her mom are homeless after her father walked out on the family and her mother lost her job. Now they are living in the car.
The part that really makes me angry is the fact that, of course, there has to be a father that abandoned the family. We are made out to be bad again; we are worthless and very bad. This teaches kids that fathers are awful and we just leave our family and force them and their mothers to live in a car. They are teaching kids that poor moms are such victims and that fathers don’t care about them. If this were a reversal, us single fathers would probably be taken to jail, kids taken away from us and we are really bad parents to put our kids through such an environment. But, it is ok for moms to do such a thing because they are the victims and were forced to do so, because men are bad!
I am really getting tired of being labeled as a bad person, only because I am a single father raising my daughter. I don’t understand why people is so shocked that I am raising my kid on my own, I mean, I am a man! Because I am a man, I must not have a nurturing bone in my body, I can’t cook, clean, do laundry, spend time with my daughter, do homework time, make sure she has her checkups, etc. etc. etc. I mean, really, I am a man. How can I possibly know how to do any of that?
I especially love how we see commercials, advertisements, specials and articles for single mothers and not single fathers. I am especially happy to see a company create a doll that teaches our young kids that fathers are a piece of garbage and we are no good. These dolls are $95 and you can buy expensive accessories for these dolls too. So many children want these dolls and parents are running out buying them. There are so many of us single fathers that are raising our kids. There are so many fathers that share in raising their kids too. Also, there are so many fathers that would love to raise there kids and can’t either. So, I am enraged that a company would create something of this nature that just adds more stereotype to us single fathers. We aren’t all deadbeats, in fact, most of us aren’t. Usually, the mother is ticked off and won’t let the father see their kids and brainwash them. Well, I guess there is another tool they can use against us!!
