Fix a page in Barbie's book

On top of sending the wrong message to would-be STEM girls, it also sends a message to girls who aren&#x27;t into science&#x2F;math. It tells them that those STEM girls could just act more feminine, helping to &quot;justify&quot; dislike and bullying.<p>I wonder how this stuff keeps happening at Mattel - whether it&#x27;s because they insert flirtation with boys into every Barbie story, or there was an actual directive to make her look ditzy for marketing reasons.

I showed some of these to my daughter in middle school and we both found the submissions hilarious! We then had a talk about about trolls and the internet and how we could implement a meme-creator for Minecraft pics.<p>Edit: our fave so far: <a href="http://computer-engineer-barbie.herokuapp.com/view/115" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;computer-engineer-barbie.herokuapp.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;115</a>

I read this on planet debian a couple of days ago:<p><a href="http://blog.halon.org.uk/2014/11/barbie-the-debian-developer/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=barbie-the-debian-developer" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.halon.org.uk&#x2F;2014&#x2F;11&#x2F;barbie-the-debian-developer...</a><p>Barbie debian developer + systemD. Wins hands down!

Previous submission&#x27;s comments: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8635866" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8635866</a>

Well, as big a fan of the BLO[1] as I am, I think your energy might be better spent elsewhere.<p>Lamilly[2] was successfully crowdfunded, manufactured, and is shipping soon. She&#x27;s already a world traveler and will surely have more career options than Barbara soon.<p><a href="http://www.rtmark.com/blo.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rtmark.com&#x2F;blo.html</a><p><a href="https://lammily.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lammily.com&#x2F;</a>

Why do I have a feeling that internet trolls will descend on this?<p>Great work, although with just a little more work, I think the font could match the one in the book a little better.

This page is terrible, and those submissions are one of the reasons the internet is such a hostile place. It looks straight out of 4chan.

I&#x27;m not sure what to think of this ...

Can we make this about the factual and technological errors in the book rather than rally around it as Social Justice Warriors?<p>Maybe Barbie&#x27;s team&#x27;s organization was agreed upon by all members and she WANTED to do the design work while the two guys did the actual coding. Maybe she plans to do the coding for the next project. A better name would have been Coder Team Barbie. Let&#x27;s start there.<p>When you make a big deal out of stuff like this, you&#x27;re turning it into the thing against which you are claiming to fight.<p>Stop &quot;playing the victim&quot; and make a better version without the elitist SJW attitude. The first step toward equality is to stop being the bully or the victim, whichever one applies.