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?
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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. Here are 28 inappropriate 90s kids toys that you definitely could not get made today.The makers of Barbie seem to apologize A LOT for underestimating young women. What dark tales can we hear from the age of psychedelic colors, dial-up internet, political turmoil, and of course, grunge? Prepare to have your childhood ruined once and for all. Now that we think about it, a lot of the toys we so desperately wanted as kids would be considered troubling now, and looking back many of them probably wouldn't make it past censors or safety standards today. Some of our favorite childhood toys even ended up being pulled from the toy store shelves after parents complained. Some toys were inappropriate because they hinted at jokes or adult themes that went sailing right over our young little heads, others weren't fit for kids because they were flat-out dangerous or toxic. If we look closely at some of our old 90s toys, it may turn out some of them weren't just innocent fun like we thought. We long to remember the days of tuning in to Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, the days of the euphoric feeling of opening the next new toy.īut sometimes nostalgia also means looking at our fond memories through rose-colored glasses.
We often get nostalgic for those days now that 90s kids are all grown up and have their own jobs and lives. Everyone remembers toy commercials from the 90s – their bright colors, their catchy theme songs, their images of leaping kids and pure, blissful fun.
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