Barbie Computer Engineer
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Barbie Computer Engineer
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#2Very interesting, although I'm not sure what to make of her glasses; are they, like, so geek-chic-coolacious?
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#3And Ken is renamed Paul?
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#4Being a computer engineer is a choking hazard?
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#5The bytes on the screen spell out: "BarbieBarbieBarbie" :-)
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#6What does "computer engineer" even mean?
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#7Was this not the product of some sort of poll where people voted for the next barbie? I remember seeing it on HN.
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#8Wow. It's amazing, she looks just like every women engineer I've ever worked with. Especially the Bluetooth headset.
Seriously, does this do anything to advance the position of women in software engineering?
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#9Was this not the product of some sort of poll where people voted for the next barbie? I remember seeing it on HN.
Yes. Remember Eric Sink's post about how geeks (like himself) are over-represented on the internet? He pointed out how he had a higher google rank than Eric Clapton, and the number one hit for "Joel" is a well-known developer in New York rather than Billy Joel - http://www.ericsink.com/articles/Boundaries.html
That poll was Dugg, Slashdotted, and Reddited. It was a foregone conclusion - Barbie would be a "computer engineer", dammit. The only careers that would have gotten more votes would have been "Ship's mechanic on a Firefly class spaceship" or "vampire slayer".
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#10I must be hallucinating, an article about barbies as the top submission on HN.