“My daughter was looking through her [American Girl] magazine and he was looking over her shoulder,” said Martinez-Matejko, a former teacher who is now a stay-at-home mom with four children. “He asked why American Girl doesn’t make boy dolls. I said they just don’t and he said it wasn’t fair because boys like to play with dolls too.” “If they have American Girl dolls they should have American Boy dolls,” her son told her. So Martinez-Matejko set about making her son’s wish a reality. She joined some Facebook groups for buying and selling American Dolls and found a doll with brown hair — the same shade as her son’s — and one flaw: a broken eye, which made it a fairly cheap buy. “Since I would be cutting the hair and buying clothes I did not want to spend a ton of money on the doll,” she said. She found a YouTube video to help her fix the broken eye, then stuck to her original plan of giving the doll a gender make-over: new boy clothes and a short haircut. When she gave her son the doll, needless to say, he was thrilled. And the fellow moms in our Facebook group were impressed, too, leaving dozens of positive comments on Martinez-Matejko’s post. Martinez-Matejko said she even heard from a mom who wants her help in creating her own “American Boy” doll. The American Girl company, she said, is missing a big opportunity. “I think there would be a huge market for boy dolls,” she said.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 13:09:46 +0000
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