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"Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer" Pulled From Amazon

Posted by timothy on from the made-it-past-the-drawing-board dept.

New submitter clcto writes Back in 2010, Computer Engineer Barbie was released. Now, with the attention brought to the Frozen themed programming game from Disney and Code.org, unwanted attention has been given to the surprisingly real book "Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer". So much so, that Mattel has pulled the book from Amazon. The book shows Barbie attempting to write a computer game. However, instead of writing the code, she enlists two boys to write the code as she just does the design. She then proceeds to infect her computer and her sister's computer with a virus and must enlist the boys to fix that for her as well. In the end she takes all the credit, and proclaims "I guess I can be a computer engineer!" A blog post commenting on the book (as well as giving pictures of the book and its text) has been moved to Gizmodo due to high demand.

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  1. I know this! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's unix!!!11

    1. Re: I know this! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yes, 3d graphics libraries are on the roadmap for systemd: it will then be called system3d and it will raytrace everything that used to be in inittab.

  2. *Spoiler alert* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    In the final chapter, Barbie sleeps with several game reviewers to make sure her game gets good reviews and publicity on various gaming websites.

  3. Re:From Experience by Austerity+Empowers · · Score: 5, Funny

    I found this to be highly offensive to computer engineers. The implication we're marketing...that other people do the real work... that we'd dare stick a USB key with an unknown history into our USB port...

    Actually that last one sets sex ed back about 30 years too.

  4. Torso Barbie by coolmoose25 · · Score: 3, Funny

    In my house, computer engineer Barbie would have ended up just like all the other Barbies in the house... naked, legless, armless, and often headless in the bathtub. We affectionately called them all "Torso Barbie"

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  5. Re:LOL ... w00t? by RabidReindeer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Barbie is based on a doll who is based on a cartoon about a prostitute. She's a whore turned housewife. So she's actually an abusive stereotype to a number of groups and subgroups...

    That's a terrible thing to say about Barbie.

    Before she became a computer engineer, she worked at McDonalds. And drove a brand-new pink corvette. And lived in a Malibu beach house. And I'm sure she was paying her way through the IT program in college. All on her salary from McDonalds.