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Teddy Bears Are History’s Most Subversive Toy (Classic)

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The Teddy Bear and Race Suicide

Father esper's theory of a teddy barfield race suicide went viral. The role of women was changing and girls were becoming more active, just as the most respected thinkers of the day were urging girls to become less active. There was a big, broad racest fear that white people were going extinct, which was endorsed by the man sitting in the white house. And now here comes the teddy bear, replacing dolls, those wholesome dolls, those toys that do what toys for girls have been meant to do for centuries. You can imagine it being seen as the lowest of all blows. It's as if the moralists of the nation were saying, everything in our world already changing

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