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January 06, 2007
So THAT'S Why They're So Corrupt - It's Because Of The Dolls Republicans Play With
Hey everybody look - it's the strip Stantis should have run on Thursday so the last few days would have made sense. Carmen and Winslow are apparently at the toy store (not the book store as most of us thought on Thursday) and are standing in front of a wall of dolls that look like "mini-minxes." How freakin' old is Stantis, anyway? The only people I know who use words like "minx" and "trollop" were born 80 years ago.
The dolls in question appear to be the popular Bratz - so popular that they actually became the number one mini-dolls back in 2004. Back when their MOVIE came out. Ahh, that's our old Scott Stantis - always Mr. Topical. Next week: are Garbage Pail Kids ruining America?!?
The other doll on the shelf appears to be the "Dream Dancer," and for the life of me I can't find anything of the sort online. What, was Stantis afraid to put Barbie up there? She's only been popular since the 60s.
So yeah, we're already back to Stantis whining about popular culture corrupting our young women. First women were allowed out of the kitchen, then they showed their ankles on the beach, then they could vote, then Barbie came out with measurements of about 38-14-34, then Hot Pants were all the rage, and now we get Bratz dolls. What's next, a comic strip artist who hides behind a young minority girl to spew his radical right political beliefs?
I just love how so many Conservative Republicans preach about "personal responsibility," but everything bad is always someone else's fault. "It's not my fault my daughter is corrupted by the dolls I buy her." "It's not my fault my son is corrupted by the TV shows I let him watch." Maybe you're right Stantis - maybe all of our girls are being turned into tramps because of some dolls wearing sexy clothing. Instead, we should cover them from head to toe so they'll never be tempted by the sins of the flesh. They might look a little something like this:
You keep up this little war of yours Stantis. The supposed war against our youth. Maybe you can have the world you want - where YOU get to decide what our kids play with and what they watch on TV and who they talk to on their cell phones. But excuse me if I don't want to live in your "fantasy" world. I'll take my chances here in the good ol' U.S. of A., where I have the right to choose what I want corrupting me.
