Truly Sickening

You might have seen some of the stories recently, that the religious nuts are going after Barbie Dolls now. Y'know, they do this sort of thing so much, we don't usually even pay attention.

So, anyway, this time I bit. I read something on a blog about this and went to see for myself. I went to the Concerned Women for America web site, titled "Barbie’s Web Site Promotes Gender Confusion." They have some text, but the main part of it is an audio recording you listen to. Here's the text:

The iconic Barbie Doll has become another tool for promoting gender confusion among children. On the Barbie Web site, www.Barbie.com, there is a poll that asks children their age and sex. The age choices are 4-8, but as Bob Knight, Director of CWA’s Culture & Family Institute, notes children are given three options for their choice of gender. Click here to listen.

And ... yuck ... I clicked there.

You have some holier-than-thou lady interviewing Bob Knight. We know Mr. Knight from his performance at the Citizen for a Responsible Curriculum's March "town hall" meeting. He was one of the ones they had to say was a little too extreme for them.

So she starts out with this:

We've told you that Mattel, who now owns American Girl dolls, has been promoting Girls, Inc., an organization that promotes abortion and lesbianism to young girls, but we've also found that Mattel is promoting that agenda though the Barbie line.

She introduces Bob Knight, and says:

Bob, one of our constitutents directed us to a Barbie poll on the Barbie.com web site, and we found something rather disturbing there, aimed at kids -- tell us about it.

Knight says:

Yeah, there's not a whole lot that can shock me any more, Martha, but when you go to the Barbie web site, and they ask a series of questions, how old are you, and they give you -- you can click on a certain age, but the second question is the eye-opener. "I am a" and they give you, not two choices, but three. You can click on "I am a girl," "I am a boy," or "I don't know."

Then ... you've got to hear the sound of this lady's voice. Oh, she's shocked. Shocked.

And this is directed at children age four through eight, those are the only age options in this poll. That's a really young age to be directing something along the lines of bisexuality, gender confusion.

Bob picks it up:

That's the agenda here, is the idea that well maybe people aren't born a particular biological sex, or they are but that shouldn't determine their gender identity. And that's a very big component of the homosexual activist agenda, now...

Then he goes on.

With all apparent sincerity, this despicable woman -- she's something straight out of the Marx Brothers -- asks:

Well, Bob, is Mattel taking plays right out of the homosexual agenda playbook? Sounds like something we would hear about from GLSEN, or some of these school groups.

To which Bob responds, with a profound tone of puzzlement in his sincere voice:

Well, I don't now what prompted them to do this, it's so bizarre to give them a third choice for a gender, that they obviously are being influenced, whether it's inside the company or outside the company, we're not sure.

OK, well, it's sickening. I mean, it really just makes your skin crawl.

The reason I had listened to this disgusting stuff at all was something I saw at Modern Science blog. He had looked at the terrible gay-agenda-promoting poll at the Barbie site.

I'm not going to quote him on this... I'm going to go there myself.

Ah, ok, so the Barbie web site is bright colors and a noisy sound track. I think that's some movie star's face at the top of the page, but I don't know who.

I dig around... where's the poll? Where is the poll?

I don't see any poll.

OK, so I follow Modern Science's link. Ah, here it is, a place to register for something.

The first question:

1. Pick a Nickname to use on Barbie.comSM. Make sure it's between 5 and 15 letter long.

There's a little pink text box for your Nickname.

Then ... there it is. Question Number Two. You can see the text, but the options are hidden in a dropdown box. Now, I will reveal ALL:

2. Are you a Boy or a Girl?
Boy
Girl
I don't want to say

It doesn't say "I don't know" at all!

Bob Knight and that other disgusting person were simply lying!

All of this is about nothing. Nothing at all.

Listen, when my kids were younger, I wouldn't let them fill out any forms on the Internet. Then, they got to an age, when I would let them do some stuff, join some groups or whatever, but they had to learn to be careful about revealing anything about themselves. We saw some creepy guys on instant messaging, in particular, and I didn't want any identifying information getting out.

So, if a form asked if you were a boy or a girl, a paranoid parent's warning buzzer should go off. And the correct answer should be, "I don't want to say."

This registration page was buried so deep on the Barbie site that I never could find it. So these Concerned Women for America can be sure you, the critical reader, won't find it, either.

That means they can say anything they want about it.

This is a perfect opportunity for them to lie.

We have had some Anons in the comments, apologists for the religious right, and I expect to hear from them on this. So, guys, do this, please. Follow the links I just printed, listen to Bob and Disgusto-Lady talk about this, about how the homosexual agenda is trying to lure kids into turning gay using poll questions with three answers. Go to the Barbie site, look at the registration form. And then, please, only then, come back to teachthefacts.org and write some nasty stuff about how we're twisting the truth. Let me see if any of you have the nerve to support these lying bigots.