98: Kit Lit

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

You know her, you love her, you may even be a bit jealous of her stunning haircut … at last, it’s time we all meet Kit Kittredge. In the summer of 1932, Kit is a comfortably affluent and (in AG terms) spunky girl living in Ohio. We quickly learn that Kit is fond of baseball, her typewriter, BFF Ruthie, and a good headline. She does not appreciate the intrusion of strangers or the general economic collapse happening in her lifetime. We talk about Valerie Tripp’s triumphant return, Kit’s class consciousness, and Maryellen’s recent PR issues.

Time Stamps:

00:00-12:30 - Mary-Ellen AG tiktok reintroduction and Mariah Carey on 9/11

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0:00.0	Okay, so we are about to spend some time in the mid-1930s, but before we do, we need to talk about someone named Mary Ellen, aka Ellie Larkin.
0:09.5	Okay, listening.
0:11.0	Do you know her?
0:12.0	Um, not yet. I know of her, you might say, but we don't know each other at this time.
0:17.5	So, she's blonde. She's a regular at the seaside diner. She wears a beautiful, kind of like turquoise blue ribbon in her hair.
0:25.5	There's been a lot of rumors. There's been a lot of talk on the internet about where she was January 6th.
0:30.5	Oh my god. No. No. No.
0:34.5	So we haven't really been like privy to these rumors. We haven't been part of it, but American Girl released on TikTok.
0:41.5	What I think are some of the most iconic lines in an American Girl TikTok to date.
0:46.5	This is their opener in like a Mary Ellen, you know, simulated voice.
0:51.5	There's been a lot of rumors going on around me, so I want to reintroduce myself.
0:57.5	Oh god.
0:58.5	Here's what we learn, and we know American Girl has taught us a lot about pants. She says, I slay the pant game.
1:04.5	Girl boss behavior only.
1:06.5	No.
1:07.5	My dream is to be a rocket scientist, hashtag Women in STEM.
1:12.5	So they also recently said that Mary Ellen Larkin is most likely to know what really went on an area 51.
1:20.5	I don't think that this messaging is helping.
1:24.5	I don't. It's so weird that they're like, okay, to correct any opinion that she may have been at January 6th.
1:31.5	We're going to say she's like the female Elon Musk girl boss.
1:35.5	Yeah, wearing pants.
1:37.5	Somebody needs to call a crisis PR person right now. Right now.
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