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January 05, 2007
Bile-Spewing Barbie
I'm not sure who is more confused: me or Stantis.
Me first. YESTERDAY, I could have sworn Carmen was incensed about a BOOK. It looked like a book to me. I thought it was "My First Trollope" -- a intro to the works of Anthony Trollope. Though Sacki's post yesterday wasn't able to guide me to a better understanding, there were some helpful comments in the comment section that lead me to drop the "e" and move on the right path to slut, whore, harlot, and tart. But still, I thought it was a book.
Until today when it is revealed to be a "My First Trollop" DOLL, which Carmen is returning to a store. Which brings us to the Scott's confusion.
I wonder what "War on Childhood" Stantis is referring to. Is it the one in which an 8-year-old girl is used as a political pawn in his game of "Pin the Blame on the Democrats"? Or the one in which girls are taught to appreciate what Ann Coulter had done for women? Or maybe it's the one in which a child "exercises her right" to punch her friend in the face?
"Could I just get my childhood back?" an exasperated Carmen pleads. And one wonders if that's a rhetorical question or if she's posing it directly to Stantis.
Comments
I'll confess and say I, too, thought it was a book. And I was even more confused because I never heard of Anthony Trollope and I didn't know what "trollop" mean.
Fortunately, the guys at rec.arts.comics.strips newsgroup was able to tell it was a doll and explained the joke to me.
Posted by: Charles Brubaker at January 5, 2007 09:52 AM
Perhaps Stantis needs to read the excellent Barbie vs. Bratz essay in the New Yorker a few weeks back, in which it was reported that toy researchers are finding that the "slutty" dressed Bratz dolls are so interesting to young girls that they are actually playing with dolls longer thus prolonging, not shortening child play.
Posted by: Magpie at January 5, 2007 10:08 AM
I prefer the New Yorker where the author of "Goodnight, Moon" is quoted as saying that “Well, I don’t especially like children, either. At least not as a group. I won’t let anybody get away with anything just because he is little.”
I think that's where the strip is going; Winslow is stalking and sizing her up before he pounces, as coyotes are wont to do.
Posted by: Sacki at January 5, 2007 04:48 PM
If you want to see a guy who truly defies Coulter's logic with reality - week by week - check out htto://www.antianncoulter.org
Posted by: Bernie Epstein at January 6, 2007 01:49 PM
