5/11/2023 0 Comments Growing up skipper amazon![]() This is not the first time in Barbie’s more than half a century history something like this has happened. ![]() All Barbie titles moving forward will be written to inspire girl’s imaginations and portray an empowered Barbie character. We apologize that this book didn’t reflect that belief. We believe girls should be empowered to understand that anything is possible and believe they live in a world without limits. The portrayal of Barbie in this specific story doesn’t reflect the Brand’s vision for what Barbie stands for. Mattel has since apologized for this completely sexist garbage on it’s Facebook page, promising it won’t do it again: Love, love that last one about Jem from Jem and the Holograms. Who needs Computer Engineer Barbie? JEM HAS BEEN CODING SINCE 1985. The social blew up and people took to the Twitters to let Mattel know what a lady hacker can accomplish: The traffic from her blog was so intense that she republished the piece on Gizmodo last night. It’s no longer available on Amazon.Ī blogger who writes for Disney, Pamela Ribon first wrote about “I Can Be A Computer Engineer,” after picking it up at a friend’s house and reading horrific page after page. Because women actually do that.ĭon’t worry, Steve and Brian are here to save everything.Īll the outrage over this book caught Mattel’s attention. Skipper didn’t back up her homework and loses all her files and music, too. In another section, a supposedly intelligent engineer Barbie (who should be familiar enough with technology not to do this) puts her flash drive into Skipper’s laptop and accidentally infects it with a virus. This lady hacker needs the help of two dudes named Steve and Brian to do the real programming work cuz she’s just, “creating design ideas.” Ha ha ha…what? This time the Internet’s buzzing over a pretty cringe-worthy Barbie book, “I Can Be A Computer Engineer,” published out of Random House.īarbie is featured in the book as a stylishly pink-clad computer engineer that somehow breaks everything and doesn’t know how to code. We’ve found 25 of the weirdest and downright bad Barbie dolls you’ve ever seen in your life.The makers of Barbie seem to apologize A LOT for underestimating young women. We know they can’t all be winners, but surely the masterminds behind the doll’s creations would put a little bit of sense into what they sell kids? Right? There have been plenty of controversial Barbies over the doll’s history sometimes she’s insensitive while other times she’s just entirely strange. Barbie has been one of those dolls to hop on the trend of each generation fairly quickly and with one look at her older models, you’ll be able to tell the time period she comes from. You would think with the kind of versatility Barbie has that she’d be a fantastic role model for young girls, but many seem to think that’s not the case. For every new wave of children, there’s always been a Barbie doll waiting for a new home. It’s been an iconic franchise in the toy industry that’s never faded out. Most of us has a Barbie growing up, but even if you didn’t you’ve at least heard the name before. She’s been a doctor, an astronaut and everything in between. We’ve seen Barbie go through a lot of phases in her ever-lasting life, each with a new career and exciting adventure. Everyone loves Barbie the doll who seems to be able to do everything and has a long-standing reputation with little girls for generations.
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