Mary and Allison came onstage to our applause — best friends, the perfect counterparts, and both self-proclaimed “Mollys.” They admired the Samanthas and Felicitys and “Just Like Yous” in the crowd, and they asked this question: Why, exactly, was it weird or wrong for an adult woman — everyone I saw in the audience presented as female — to play with a doll?
I pondered this.
