I've always thought of Barbie as a sort of totem for girls. This new one, computer engineer Barbie, just made me so happy for some reason:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35372184/ns/business-retail/She has a pink laptop
and she wears glasses. That's my kind of doll. She is still very blonde, but she makes up for it by having binary code on her t-shirt.
(PS, if you haven't read
Kinky, Denise Duhamel's book of poems on Barbie, go and do it.)
Published on February 13, 2010 08:17