Mattel® released “Barbie: I Can Be A Computer Engineer” back in 2013. It was apparently the most sexist Barbie book ever. Barbie is totally incompetent - she infects her and a friend’s computer with viruses, only makes the “designs” for a game and relies on male friends to code it, and then takes all the credit for the eventual game.
It made waves this week; somehow people only noticed it now. Mashable did a great writeup, and the book got hundreds of one-star reviews on Amazon before being de-listed. The internet continues to rag on it via the #FeministHackerBarbie hashtag, taking pages out of the book and re-captioning them.
I am seriously cracking up. Here’s one of my favorites via Livelyivy:
There’s also a tool for making your own version, and it’s great. Here’s mine:
