Barbie: I can be a computer engineer

[VectraMan]

Have we done this?

Barbie book about programming tells girls they need boys to code for them

The book is bafflingly called Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer. It was written by Susan Marenco and published by Random House. Despite its encouraging title, Marenco's book actually tells preteen girls that Barbie can only contribute to the design of the game she's building.

This book, released last June, was paired with another career-minded book called Barbie: I Can Be an Actress. All five reviews for the two-book set on Amazon are from baffled parents wondering why a story called I Can Be a Computer Engineer is sending the opposite message. In fact, according to the site's only three-star review (the others each give one star), it might more accurately be called "I Can Manipulate Boys Into Programming While I Sit Back and Take Credit." Here's how the three-star reviewer, Roxanne M, describes it:

Basically what happens is she designs a game (but can't code it without her guy friends' help), infects her own and her sister's computers with a virus by accident (lolol), has her guy friends help her fix both of them, and then takes all the credit for the game and fixed computers in the end.

Barbie book about programming tells girls they need boys to code for them

Oh dear.

[mudskipper]

We've done it in TPD

[VectraMan]

We've done it in TPD

So not in any part of the forum where any normal person would ever want to go? That's okay then.

[mudskipper]

So not in any part of the forum where any normal person would ever want to go? That's okay then.

To save you trawling through pages of drivel

Barbie F*cks It Up Again

…and the antidote: Barbie, Remixed: I (really!) can be a computer engineer. | Casey Fiesler

Brilliant. I had two laugh out loud moments.

(The second in the comments "I've got everything, even those nudes she sent to Ken without you knowing, Barbie!")

I hope you noticed Tux

Yes, that was a surprising touch, given the rest of it

You can rewrite it yourself now: http://www.themarysue.com/feminist-hacker-barbie-site/

Brilliant - hours of fun!

https://computer-engineer-barbie.her...com/view/10330

Ken: Barbie, make me a sandwich!
Barbie: Ken, you don't have the right to talk to me like that.
Ken: sudo make me a sandwich.
Barbie: Ok, if you put it like that.

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[vetran]

"nothing wrong with a dude liking pink."

hmm so nice guys are more interested in Ken?

[OwlHoot]

Barbie book about programming tells girls they need boys to code for them ...

Very sound idea, if only because it will reduce competition for us guys!

I must buy these books for my niece this Christmas

[OwlHoot]

If only someone would write a convincing Bobbie book, to persuade Bobs they need Westerners to code for them!

[Zero Liability]

And if that fails, there's always the world's oldest profession... it also involves pimps and I'm sure it's very IR35 friendly.

[TestMangler]

And if that fails, there's always the world's oldest profession... it also involves pimps and I'm sure it's very IR35 friendly.

Requires personal service with an element of direction and control. But more than one client at a time is a pointer to self employment.

[Zero Liability]

Requires personal service with an element of direction and control. But more than one client at a time is a pointer to self employment.

And don't forget, lack of MoO.