Yesterday, the internet got wind of one of the more recent installments in the Barbie literary canon, I Can Be a Computer Engineer. As it turns out, Barbie’s idea of being a computer engineer consists mostly of freaking out and asking Steven and Brian to fix her bad dumb girl code. Fortunately, the awesome backlash has almost made all that head-smashing worth it. Almost.
It didn’t take long for #FeministHackerBarbie to start trending on Twitter, and with it came some fantastic reinterpretations (to put it kindly) of the absurdity at hand. We’ve compiled some of the internet’s best responses to the computer engineer Barbie debacle. And if you feel so inspired, show us some of your own Barbie bastardizations down below.
This site lets you create your own, which people have been making in droves. From the extra geeky:
To the extra Steven-bashing:
And then Tumblr got in on the fun:
As did Twitter:
YASSS ITS HAPPENING BARBIE DONT NEED NO MAN TO REVERSE ENGINEER BINARIES pic.twitter.com/7vJHCz3Ber
— InfoSec Taylor Swift (@SwiftOnSecurity) November 18, 2014
Make your own “Barbie is a computer engineer” panels here: https://t.co/Sghiegv6wO We just made one 😀 pic.twitter.com/XPxAulcEkt
— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) November 19, 2014
“Music files?” said Barbie. “WTF. Are you 30 or something? Just use Youtube or Spotify like a normal person.” pic.twitter.com/8WBPcxao62
— Brianna Wu aka LW3 (@Spacekatgal) November 18, 2014
The basic building block of any code base… coffee! ;p https://t.co/vBMsgaYH3A pic.twitter.com/dNTkCkLfIr
— Elsabé Lessing (@mindless_pixie) November 19, 2014
“Hey!” said the teacher. “I just realized everyone in this well-funded school district is white!” pic.twitter.com/oahkBFLzLr
— Brianna Wu aka LW3 (@Spacekatgal) November 18, 2014
Computer Engineer Barbie pic.twitter.com/fxCiczx8Tp
— Paul Madsen (@paulmadsen) November 19, 2014
And as always, the kind people of Amazon have quite a bit to say on the matter themselves. Like this:
And this:
Or even this:
Of course, someone did thankfully create an age-friendly “remix” of the book, which you can download in its entirety here. Because apparently, Matel needs all the help it can get. Just like Barbie.