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Awesome girl programmers
I'd like you to meet my new friend, who is totally 1337. Her name? BARBIE.
Barbie's delivery box is an amazing work of detail in itself. See the cubicle farm over the top of her wall?

Her cubicle has a stuffed penguin:

Her thumb drive looks like a Barbie shoe. Also visible: the Chinese food and Big Gulp cup above.:

Under her desk the CPU case is open and on a wheeled cart for easy disassembly.

And am I reading too much into that odd pink triangle?
And Barbie herself? Hipster specs and glitter eyeshadow, bluetooth headset, massive digital watch, and iPhone.



Her sneakers manage to look like sneakers but if you take them off, she has normal wacky Barbie feet.

Her laptop shows the Barbie website. I'm going to replace the screen with a tiny screenshot of the Geek Feminism homepage.

The overall effect of Barbie in her glitter stretch pants and sparkle binary shirt is pretty awesome.




The back of the box explains how you become a programmer:

I do understand that computer engineer Barbie is kinda subversive, kinda hegemonic. If nothing else, she's still Barbie. But right now I'm focusing on glee. She's not a pretty pretty princess or prom queen: she's a hacker extraordinaire.
Besides, with two older sisters, this is the first time I've ever had a brand-new Barbie before.
Barbie's delivery box is an amazing work of detail in itself. See the cubicle farm over the top of her wall?

Her cubicle has a stuffed penguin:

Her thumb drive looks like a Barbie shoe. Also visible: the Chinese food and Big Gulp cup above.:

Under her desk the CPU case is open and on a wheeled cart for easy disassembly.

And am I reading too much into that odd pink triangle?
And Barbie herself? Hipster specs and glitter eyeshadow, bluetooth headset, massive digital watch, and iPhone.



Her sneakers manage to look like sneakers but if you take them off, she has normal wacky Barbie feet.

Her laptop shows the Barbie website. I'm going to replace the screen with a tiny screenshot of the Geek Feminism homepage.

The overall effect of Barbie in her glitter stretch pants and sparkle binary shirt is pretty awesome.




The back of the box explains how you become a programmer:

I do understand that computer engineer Barbie is kinda subversive, kinda hegemonic. If nothing else, she's still Barbie. But right now I'm focusing on glee. She's not a pretty pretty princess or prom queen: she's a hacker extraordinaire.
Besides, with two older sisters, this is the first time I've ever had a brand-new Barbie before.
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High-heeled feet: Hahahahaha! And it's just as funny this morning, as it was last night. :-D
I'm impressed: she's both recognizably and convincingly Barbie AND recognizably and convincingly geeky.
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Also, I remember Barbie feet being way weirder than that (spike-heel feet) when I was a kid. Have they really changed, or am I nuts?