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Nipasu wrote: Beautifulsatori wrote: also: https://www.americangirl.com/shop/logan-doll-fbb89

This is kinda old news, but maybe no one here saw it before?

It's an "American Girl doll".... that's a boy!

Made me really happy when I first found out about him. <3 I've heard about Logan and, to me, he's problematic for a variety of reasons. I also don't get why a company called American Girl would feel the need to have boy dolls, mainly because the company's main focus is to empower girls. Plus, at least to me, I haven't seen a single AG boy dolls being advertised with boys, so I don't know if they were for boys at all or were just for girls. Well, my favorite thing about it is literally that the character is still an "American Girl doll" despite being a boy.

It's equally awesome, as calling a boy a princess, despite the word "princess" literally in the dictionary meaning the female child (daughter) of royalty. I think that is the most blatant bucking of the system there is, and while you and some others might hate it, I find it to be the best thing ever!

although.... you kinda said it yourself. their *main* focus is to empower girls. "main focus" does not mean EXCLUDING anything else! And this boy character, is the best friend of a female lead progtagonist. So it's like, a girl like her would probably not want her friend to be excluded, you know? So this also actually contributes to girl empowerment!

<3