Dear Concerned Women for America,
I want to thank you for making the public aware that Mattel, the makers of the Barbie doll, were part of the "transgender movement." I had no ideal that trannies were bent on world domination. We must be vilgant against all he-she's and she-he's that are out to create "bisexuality gender confusion", and cause the space-time contiumin to flux and spin the Earth off of it's axis. Now that I've pretty much wasted valuable time already, can I ask you something? Did it ever cross your mind that you're nuts? I just saw that poll on Barbie's webpage, and thought it was a little silly, and not threatening to anyone except moral morons like yourselves. That is to say, you're making something out of nothing. Speaking of which, why were you on the Barbie website anyway? Really, if the Concenred Women for America are to be concerned, you should be concentrating on important things like ethics in Congress, or saving the whales, or discuss the rise in Hurricanes; global warming or a typical 40-year pattern? Just wait; I bet you'll come out with a warning that the Chuck E Cheese webpage has question pointed to confuse kids that their Smurfs, then you'll come out and say The Cheese is leading the Smurf revolt. Losers.
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Barbie Accused of Being Part of the Transgender Movement By JAKE TAPPERWASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 3, 2006 — - The Concerned Women for America were ... well, concerned. Outraged, even. Was Barbie becoming part of the transgender movement?
On Dec. 30, CWA, a leading Christian conservative group, noted on its Web site that on the Barbie Web site, www.Barbie.com, "there is a poll that asks children their age and sex."
You can see a screen grab of the poll here.
The age choices were 4 to 8 but children "are given three options for their choice of gender": I am a Boy, I am a Girl and I Don't Know.
Bob Knight, director of CWA's Culture and Family Institute, said Barbie manufacturer Mattel was being influenced by the "transgender movement."
To pose "this transgender question at little girls, they've really crossed the line," Knight said, who added that "bisexuality gender confusion" is the Web site's agenda, which is "very dangerous."
The concern comes after a conservative boycott of Mattel's American Girls dolls. The American Family Association and the Pro-Life Action League protested that some American Girls dolls were wearing "I Can" wristbands, which support Girls Inc. Girls Inc. is a national, nonprofit organization that promotes education and self-esteem programs, as well as sex education, and supports abortion rights and the acceptance of gays and lesbians. The Mattel-Girls Inc. partnership ended on Dec. 26.
But Mattel, which also manufactures Barbie, said the Barbie incident is much ado about nothing.
"This was just an innocent oversight," says Lauren Bruksch, a spokeswoman for Mattel. As a rule of thumb, Bruksch said, the questionnaires at barbie.com always try to have a neutral answer or nonresponse option. For gender, this third option should have been "I don't want to say," rather than "I don't know." The Web site has since been fixed.
Knight had said CWA would contact Mattel to investigate the matter, but Bruksch said Mattel first heard of the complaint when ABC News called for comment.
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