Barbie Finds New Career in Information Technology

[Alex_P]

Even for a computer engineer, those clothes are hideous.

-- Alex

 

[Wakefield]

I would laugh forever if Garbageman(woman) won the vote. That would be awesome.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

Barbie Finds New Career in Information Technology

Computer Engineer Barbie is set to make her programming debut in Fall 2010. She'll be wearing a binary code t-shirt, carrying a smart phone, and talking to her corporate drone boss on a Bluetooth headet. Just because Barbie is a computer engineer doesn't mean she can't still accessorize, as her hot-pink glasses will match the hot pink laptop she stares at for 10 hours a day.
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I'm not sure, based on this description, whether I should be glad they're trying to suggest that women can also be programmers, or amazed as to what they think female programmers should look like. (I'm a guy by the way, just want to clarify.)

I know that Twilight has been trying its damndest to set feminism back to pre-Suffragette movement, but does Barbie really have to derail the computing train as well?

 

[Jared]

Glasses: Unsuccessfully helping sluts try to appear to have a brain since the 19th century

"I am like, such a smart scientist!"

This made me chuckle XD So true

 

[lodo_bear]

Nerds don't do the slutty thing.
Well, they do, but...
You know.
Cough, Princess Leia, cough.

Now that gives me an intriguing idea for Barbie #128...

I like the idea of little girls playing with Computer Engineer Barbie instead of some other stupid barbie, or those fucking Bratz dolls that encourage those little girls to turn tricks in alleyways.

=] +1 for humanity.

And +1 to you for commentary. Bratz dolls are practically child pornography [http://www.tellinitlikeitis.net/2009/03/the-sexualization-of-children-and-adolescents-epidemic.html] and they must be stopped [http://totaldrek.blogspot.com/2007/08/slags-uninformed-movie-review-bratz.html].

 

[sheic99]

Did anyone else notice that she is programming in machine code? They could have at least put in some C at least.

 

[CloggedDonkey]

well, it's a step in the right direction, but it doesn't make her a "nerd". but if that happens, there will be porn far and wide of it.

 

[jamesworkshop]

The real question is she going to get a Script Kiddie Ken to tag along with her.

 

[Sir Kemper]

Do they include the living in a cardboard box in an alley playset for when the Dotcom bubble burst?

Thats part of the fall line up.

 

[Kuchinawa212]

thoses glasses...yeeessshhhh. To pointy and tooooo pink!

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

Because this isn't incredibly retarded. Seriously.

 

[Bladecatcher]

Either way, Barbie still looks slutty.

Yea, they definitely could have made her look more...nerdy. who says nerds can't be hot?

Well, there is hot and there is slutty.

Thats kind of what I meant. Instead of keeping the slutty Barbie and tacking some glasses and a giant Pip-Boy on her, they could have toned down the "slutty", but kept the "pretty". I guess its a concept thats lost on the people that make Barbie.

 

[MercenaryCanary]

Either way, Barbie still looks slutty.

Yea, they definitely could have made her look more...nerdy. who says nerds can't be hot?

Well, there is hot and there is slutty.

Thats kind of what I meant. Instead of keeping the slutty Barbie and tacking some glasses and a giant Pip-Boy on her, they could have toned down the "slutty", but kept the "pretty". I guess its a concept thats lost on the people that make Barbie.

It is, as someone already previously stated, because Barbie is a Collector.
Think about it. At some point, a boy has touched a Barbie doll in his life, due to such an odd impulse.
Wait, no.
What the hell am I talking about?

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

But can the laptop handle Crysis?

Like the most important question asked in this thread. Make or break time Barbie!

I do find it funny how much these things rely on stereotypes, such as the glasses and whatnot, but it is an inanimate object, so I guess it takes what it can.

 

[Deleted]

Over 100 careers? Where's chef barbie?

But seriously, how good can she be at her job if she got fired over 100 times.

 

[jimduckie]

gee where's anti terrorism barbie? , welfare barbie , default on mortgage barbie , wal-mart greeter barbie , talaban barbie , convict barbie ,adhd barbie , sexuality curious barbie , reality barbie , implant free barbie and where is trailer park poor barbie?

yeah i know , i spend way too much time alone ... lmfao

 

[0p3rati0n]

I just tossed the lunch monkey after seeing this picture. If you know what I mean....

 

[Comma-Kazie]

This does NOT bode well for anybody.

 

[insectoid]

Eh, it was bound to happen when they opened the voting up to the internet.