Barbie Gets a Brain

minstrelmike writes: Mattel is coming out with a Talking Barbie designed by a huge team and pre-scripted with thousands of responses controlled by an AI, with designs to be your best friend. The design team remembers the "Math is hard" debacle of the 1990s and if a girl asks if she's pretty, Barbie will respond, "Yes. And you're smart, too." If she asks if Barbie believes in God, she says a person's beliefs are personal. And suggests talking to grownups about some problems. The linked New York Times' article ("Barbie Wants to Get to Know Your Child") even discusses trying to avoid edited vids on YouTube by scripting out words such as "cockroach."

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Re:So Barbie is the woman of the new millennium

[AmiMoJo]

The standard Red Pill narrative is that women made themselves unattractive to men, and it's all their fault. In actual fact, women just decided not to be living Barbie dolls. Screw getting up early to apply make-up, devoting yourself to some douchbag, dinner on the table, all that shit. Do what you want to do with your life. Women Going Their Own Way, you might say.

Now said douchbags are upset. Their Stepford Wives are no longer the expected behaviour, the standard model wife.