Barbie's been fired

[Handley_Page]

Mattel have withdrawn "I can be a Computer Engineer"
I cannot say that I am surprised; see here:- http://pamie.com/2014/11/barbie-fucks-it-up-again/

 

[Bramblethorn]

There were some good responses to that one:
https://computer-engineer-barbie.herokuapp.com/view/180
https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/534955771969433600/photo/1

 

[legerdemer]

I agree with the first commenter: "Oh good Lord. I’m half thankful that you brought this to our attention and half wanting to go slam my head against the wall."

 

[Handley_Page]

I wonder if Barbie is the one who wanted "curtains for the windows" ?

 

[elfin_odalisque]

You guys are really Neanderthals.

Barbie had a techy problem, batted her eyelids, and a host of techy guys who were salivating about getting into her panties just arrived.

Guys, get a grip on manipulation!

 

[legerdemer]

Call me old but I have a problem with the " new feminism".

You guys are really Neanderthals.

Barbie had a techy problem, batted her eyelids, and a host of techy guys who were salivating about getting into her panties just arrived.

Guys, get a grip on manipulation!

 

[Hypoxia]

You guys are really Neanderthals.

Barbie had a techy problem, batted her eyelids, and a host of techy guys who were salivating about getting into her panties just arrived.

Guys, get a grip on manipulation!

That's social engineering, not software engineering. As it happens, on her rise to the top of a major financial institution, an in-law used to run their Systems (software) division. She was admin, not a techie, but she didn't get the job by batting her eyelids at engineers or the senior execs she later replaced. (They're not pretty eyelids anyway.)

 

[Handley_Page]

You guys are really Neanderthals.

Barbie had a techy problem, batted her eyelids, and a host of techy guys who were salivating about getting into her panties just arrived.

Guys, get a grip on manipulation!

I got the impression that the whole point of the damned book was to tell the young girl she could do a lot; as much as the boys, anyway.

But which Buffoons would name their daughter "Skipper" ?

 

[hanania]

Although fighting the enemy is considered normal, the Army frowns upon fighting among the troops. So much so that after one too many battles royal, my uncle was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation in which he had to endure some odd questions. "If you saw a submarine in the Sahara, what would you do?" "Well, I'd throw snowballs at it," he answered. "Where'd you get the snowballs?" the doctor asked."Same place you got the submarine."

 

[sr71plt]

I got the impression that the whole point of the damned book was to tell the young girl she could do a lot; as much as the boys, anyway.

Yeah, but I stopped reading the article and got the point when the first thing she did was call two boys (not two girls or even a girl and a boy) in to help her get to the next step in the process.

 

[mynameisben]

Barbie's got big tits, so what difference does it make that she can't remove a computer virus on her own? That's where the story really ends.

 

[Handley_Page]

Barbie's got big tits, so what difference does it make that she can't remove a computer virus on her own? That's where the story really ends.

Your Barbie seems different to ours, then.
Ours is very slim. . .
(and anatomically impossible).

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Yeah, but I stopped reading the article and got the point when the first thing she did was call two boys (not two girls or even a girl and a boy) in to help her get to the next step in the process.

Yes, but it had the effect desired. Us, the intelligent and erudite have been pontificating and hypothesizing about a 12 inch plastic doll with big bazookas.

 

[sr71plt]

Maybe you have. I haven't. My comment was on the dumbness of a book trying to support a woman taking a high-level scientific job but sending her to look for two men to help her first thing. That had nothing to do with what you seem to be interested in in this (and assert that everyone else is too).