Barbie as Engineer?

She might have been a little busy as a paleontologist, surgeon, nurse, dentist, astronaut, member of every branch of the U.S. Armed Forces, and all-important Starfleet officer.

But yes, it's good to have a Barbie Engineer role model for the kids. And why would you say no one wants to be an engineer? I wouldn't mind being an engineer when I grow up.

wow, and after all the careers are filled then what next.

Cougar Barbie maybe...then they can introduce Toby, the virile 16 year old that mows Barbie's lawn.

.... or G.I. Barbie.... reminds me in 1st or 2nd grade when the girls would bring in their Barbie's and Kens. We (boys) would bring in our G.I. Joes and kick Kens butt and get the girl. The girls thought that was funny, but they never looked at Ken with any admiration or dream guy any more, which word has it eventually lead to thier breakup.

Especially when G.I. Joe would remove his army boots and he would have a foot missing they didn't know, and asked how that happened. They were impressed by that.

p911

The release was Barbie as a computer engineer. It would have been nice if progress had indeed advanced that much 25 years ago. Not that there where not women in the field at that time. Just the career is little more main stream today.

Sales, marketing, management are greater things? Maybe should have included politics too.

Many of which would have a job with out a productive society. Which the engineers give them.

Sales, marketing, management are greater things? Maybe should have included politics too.

I found that statement kind of alarming too. I'm just glad Barbie has moved on from "Math is hard! Let's go shopping!"

I'm all for it if they have a Barbie Plant Engineer whose hair gets tangled in 1,800 rpm motor shafts. No half measures!

Cheers! DZ

Shirley, for such work and for safety's sake she'd have her hair beautifully arranged in an up-do. Isn't yours?

I don't need to put my hair up.

I am serious, and please don'r call me Shirley

Phoenix: pssst! It's a joooke! By Shirley Sue means surely, phonetically.

Sue: when I do that, I say 'shurely'. Nothing implied, that way.

Cheers! DZ

P.S. And that long-haired thing's happened to guys, too. Other similar happenings: electrician opening a live cabinet down while they worked, and inadvertently sticking his head on live equipment (helmet or no helmet, a bad thing); long sleeves and loose clothing in rotating equipment; people entering live equipment after having pressed the off button (someone passes by, turns it on ... brrrppp ... one of my colleagues witnessed this in Korea, where a mech tech turned off a grinder in a pulp mill, walked inside, and had someone turn him to red pulp by pressing the 'on' button); people getting nechano-hypnotized and following rotating gear with their fingers (frequent!); plant workers getting zapped when rings they're wearing either touch electrically-live equipment or get caught on moving/rotating mechanical ones (I've seen cases of a finger's skin being ripped off when equipment caught his ring, tore off the skin, and left the bones andtendons behind .. yuuuuk!); etc, etc.

No need for someone to be a Barbie for that to happen. Carelessness, inadvertence, or just a bad congruence of circumstances lead to that.

Yes so was this........guess you never saw the 1980's movie called Airplane starring Peter Graves, Robert Stack and with a cast of others, This was a classic quip from Leslie Nielsen

It loses a little when you have to explain it.

p911

One of the early "Barbie" engineers was the beautiful Hedy Lamar, more known for her acting in movies. She was key in the invention of spread spectrum communications, which is the basis for our cell phone CDMA methods.

Hedy later was asked to suppress her technical capability in order to help raise money for the war effort (she raised $ 7 M at one event!).

Well said, Wood.

I had a WTF moment when I read about Hedy Lamar's contribution to radio communication a couple of years ago. Things like that DOhappen, but it's always a pleasant surprise.

(Hello, Megan Fox?).

Cheers! DZ

P.S. Along the kind of same lines, many engineers have gone into entertainment. I'm a process-control engineer myself, and my engineering-turned-entertainer idol is Rowan Atkinson, 'Mr. Bean'. The fellow has a Master's of Process Control Engineering.

Must've been a smart mouth in class, that one. :P

"It's just something you do for a few years before moving on to greater things, like sales, marketing, or management."

Too bad that without engineers there would be nothing sell, market or manage.

you missed build

too funny!

I think they need to add some more realistic "Barbie" designs to the lineup.

"Wal Mart shopper Barbie" Shes four times her high school weight, dresses in baggy sweat pants or shorts that are three sizes too small but still thinks shes the Prom queen and all that she was but clearly no longer is.

"Bar Fly Barbie" She still has most of her looks but two divorces and four kids later her overall expectations in life are considerably lower. She comes with a beat up Dodge minivan and an abusive biker boyfriend named "Fat Jack".

"Lesbian Biker Barbie" Basically she looks like "Fat Jacks" twin sister and hits on "Bar Fly Barbie" when "Fat Jack" is not around. She comes with a special bag of attachable accessories as well.

"Lower Middle Class Barbie" She still a nice person most of the time but her looks are fading, she has an ex husband, three kids with three different dads and lives with "Sort of husband Gary" who is a middle manger of some unnamed corporate entity. Her hair is blond but the roots are brown and she drives a third hand BMW with 200K miles on it. She also comes with a little pill bottle of "special headache medication".

"Questionable Internet Website Barbie" She is well off but dresses down when out in public. You see her around town and think that you have seen her some place before but cant quite put an exact location on it. She comes with extra plastic and silicon in comparison to the "natural Barbie's".

tcmtech.......your post sounds more like a christmas wish list.

With the right mind set a boy can play with Barbie dolls and not come off as, well...

It just takes a little more creative realism to make it work thats all.

And I suspect everyone can easily think of someone they know or have seen before that could be an accurate real life match to each of the descriptions I gave in the previous posts.

I know I have met the real life versions of the Farmer twins Barbie's, Redneck Barbie, Hill billy Barbie, "White trailer trash Barbie", "Walmart shopper Barbie", "Bar Fly Barbie", "Lesbian Biker Barbie", "Lower Middle class Barbie" and I think I have probably seen "Questionable Internet site Barbie" once or twice as well. Or at least I know where she works anyway.

That gives a whole new meaning to the phase. "She's a real doll."

I think I've dated (or married) a few of them...lol