Feminists' sneak attack on the nursery

Are American Girl dolls secretly promoting abortion and lesbianism?

Some wingnuts think so and are threatening a boycott of the Middleton-based company.

Ruth Coniff of The Progressive says it's the biggest sneak attack on kids' values since SpongeBob SquarePants:

Unlike the Teletubbies, whose subtle demonic agenda could supposedly be detected in the purple, purse-carrying person of Tinkie Winkie, according to some evangelicals, the American Girl dolls are themselves inoffensive. (There's no lesbian abortionist doll.) It's the programs that help real girls that have the rightwingers riled.

Read her piece, "Feminists in the Nursery," here.