Because dolls are what brings in the wank
American Girl dolls. Sounds completely harmless right? Yeah, well, they are a small yet drama-filled fandom indeed!

Apparently, AG Fans, a message board for the fandom, is full of mods that discriminate and need to be in control no matter what. These mods added a new rule recently.

Religious discussions and/or photos will be allowed, but limited to religious holidays and/or celebrations that have been presented on the AG website, in AG publications, and/or in AG products, as they are now or previously have been portrayed by AG.

Ahh, here comes the mad people~ A mod over at ag_over_18 on LiveJournal, I hear, was warned on AGFans for posting a series called "Otters teaches Paganism" that was nice and informative. They're widely considered on AGPlaythings to be some of the best albums done, but it's just not appropriate according to the mods at AGFans. Not only that, but the AGFans mods are banning people for being a part of the LiveJournal community. Obviously, the can't stand not having control over everything and everyone everywhere. The mod at ag_over_18 is not happy about this.

It's not just her that's bothered by this...

Here is a post from AGPlaythings:

Well, after 2-1/2 years of membership at AG Fans, I have officiallywithdrawn my membership. For those who were wondering what new "rule"prompted me to do so, here it is...


Quote:

Religious discussions and/or photos will be allowed, but limitedto religious holidays and/or celebrations that have been presented onthe AG website, in AG publications, and/or in AG products, as they are now or previously have been portrayed by AG

Since I'm known for speaking plainly, allow me to translate for you all.

**translation into Kitschy-speak**


Quote:

Discussionof alternative religions makes us really uncomfortable and causes ourless-tolerant members to get their panties in a wad. So we're justgoing to ban discussion of all "lesser" religions and use our love ofAmerican Girl to justify it.

Thatis complete and total crap, and I'm having NO part of it.Discrimination in any form is an UGLY, UGLY thing regardless of how youtry to justify it.

**stalks off to seek her happy place**

Here is the link for anyone who happens to be a member Please don't go signing up just to see it, though. Every single comment to the post agreed with the original poster on both of the posts I mentioned.

There's more to it somewhere, I'm sure, but I don't know every detail.

EDIT:

a friend: Oh, here's more.
a friend: You can't see any posts--INCLUDING the rules--until you join.
a friend: But you have to agree to the rules to join.
a friend: So you have to agree to the rules before you're allowed to read them in order to read them.

EDIT(aka copypasta ftw):

I think it's important to include that someone from that board *must* have joined the LJ com to get a lot of the info, and that users *and* IP's are banned [from AGFan].
And, maybe that one ag18 thinks they might have too widely banned IPs to include the AG headquartters, but we haven't confirmed that yet. Still funny though.