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Sister Toldja
06/01/09

In reply to America's Most Wanted
I hate American Girl because the first/only Black doll in the signature collection was a slave. I waited YEARS for her and she was a freaking slave! Like that was the only important period for Blacks in American History! Fuck you American Girl!

(I still have her though, and hug her occasionally.)
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stealthird
06/01/09

In reply to America's Most Wanted
Maybe they should have named her Fran Fine.
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counterclockwise
06/01/09

In reply to America's Most Wanted
All they wanted was a nice alliteration, and now they have a serial arsonist on their hands.

Maybe they can use the doll to teach children a lesson about the reintregation of a former arsonist into society. "Rebecca used to be a little troubled, but now she's just fine, as long as you keep her away from matches and lighters!"
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Lymed
06/01/09

@counterclockwise would vote for Jed Bartlet: That's not gonna go over so well with her Shabbat play set...
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Rare Affinity
06/01/09

In reply to America's Most Wanted
If that happened in this country, the woman would be whining abut how her human rights had been breached by the manufacture of the doll and she would be claiming compensation. Last week, for example, it was revealed that a convicted rapist, who has since died, got legal aid to fight for compensation for the fact he was chained to a prison officer when going to a public hospital for treatment.Seems he felt that had been in breach of his human rights. He seemed quite oblivious to the human rights of his victim not to be sexually assaulted.
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stoprobbers
06/01/09

In reply to America's Most Wanted
The goal is that no one be offended and that Jewish and non-Jewish little girls alike will want to play tenement house with their new toy, which costs $95 - plus more for accessories like a sideboard with a challah resting on it.

Um. Well. "Play tenanment house"?? My grandparents, raised in the same era in non-tenament housing, might take a little offense to that...
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deitybox
06/01/09

@stoprobbers: My Jewish friends and I would always play tenement house. We'd get like 50 of us in one room with terrible ventilation and live, eat, and sleep all together in there for weeks at a time. It was great fun until we all got typhoid.
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Lymed
06/01/09

@deitybox: Playing poverty is fun!
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AuntieBee
06/01/09

@deitybox: @Lymed: I think you're being sarcastic, but I really did "play poverty" when I was small. My sister and I loved to play Russian peasants, as well as Orphans who have to run away and live in the woods (not to be confused with Girls at Boarding School who have to run away and live in the woods, also very popular). Maybe it was a way to kind of glam up the actual near-poverty I lived in, or maybe it was just that history is cooler in theory than in reality.
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wry_bred
06/01/09

@AuntieBee: My brother and I played "homeless," seriously. We thought it seemed like an adventure!
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stoprobbers
06/01/09

In reply to America's Most Wanted
Well, I mean, that's what happens when you choose one of the most generic Jewish names you can come up with.
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deitybox
06/01/09

@stoprobbers: I'm actually surprised it wasn't more stereotypical, like "Sarah Goldberg" or "Miriam Cohen".
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la_periodista
06/01/09

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I think someone who can get Facebook at work should go on it right now and find out how many Rebecca Rubins show up. I bet there are a fair amount.
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AuntieBee
06/01/09

@la_periodista: I found 56.
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JinxyMcDeath
06/01/09

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I knew a Rebecca Rubin growing up - and she's not this lady on the lamb. The fact is - Rebecca and Rubin are not the most random names. If her name was Batsheva Katsav - that would be a little more confusing. Also, any parents who would think there was some sort of implicit endorsement of the criminal Rebecca Rubin is a little side of crazy with an ounce of "get over it."
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EKane
06/01/09

In reply to America's Most Wanted
So... no one at American Girl can work google?
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DinaRonson : Elizabeth Cady Stanton
06/01/09

In reply to America's Most Wanted
She needs mug shot lessons from the Lohan's.

[www.tmz.com]

(Damn, swore it was a Jez/Gawk story last week!)
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andBegorrah
06/01/09

In reply to America's Most Wanted
Do either of them have alibis for the night of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire??
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sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit)
06/01/09

@andBegorrah: Marry me.
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PhillyLass
06/01/09

@andBegorrah: Ha! Awesome!
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hortense
06/01/09

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During WW2, a local town near where I grew up changed the pronounciation of its name from Ber-LIN to BER-lin in order to ward off German associations.

Perhaps this doll's name is Rebecca Ru-BIN instead of Rebecca RU-bin, no?
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Lymed
06/01/09

@hortense: How dare American Girls force young American girls to try to pronounce a doll's name in such an artificial manner!
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deitybox
06/01/09

In reply to America's Most Wanted
Ah yes, the wholesome tale of young Rebecca Rubin, a Russian-Jewish immigrant who likes to set shit on fire in the Lower East Side. A role model for Jewish girls everywhere!
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Fatwetdog
06/01/09

@deitybox: I'm not going to lie, I would read the hell out of that book.
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AuntPenny
06/01/09

@Fatwetdog: @deitybox: You both made me laugh so hard I scared my cat. He flew three feet in the air.
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sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit)
06/01/09

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I can't help but laugh really hard at this. I'm surprised nobody did a Google search before applying the name just to be safe.
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Sandicomm
06/01/09

@sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit): Yeah, but it's not like Rebecca Rubin is a rare name.
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DoubleExpresso doesn't know what to think....
06/01/09

@sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit): totally, in the IP world it's called a 'knockout search' and yeah, they TOTALLY effed up biggie-time

this calls for a:

[www.sadtrombone.com]
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sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit)
06/01/09

@Sandicomm: Right, but if there's one really famous criminal named Rebecca Rubin, I imagine it would come up pretty quick on the Google search.
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AuntieBee
06/01/09

@sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit): Even WITH the doll's publicity, a google search right now has the arsonist Rebecca Rubin as the first 4 results. They clearly didn't look for themselves.
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LindsayC: doctoral hilarity ensues
06/01/09

In reply to America's Most Wanted
Does anyone know how they choose the names for the American Dolls? Don't they run the names through a quick Google search before they choose them? That seems like a simple way to avoid one of those newfangled "coincidences".
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