• I'm not especially for or against Barbie or anything, but they did change her dimensions a few years back. It's still not realistic, but improved. And she's been a lot more than a mysteriously rich homemaker over the years.

• Get Ken to actually marry her?

• You can be geeky and girly. Myvideo game and ovie collection rivals my nail polish! Not to say that I dont have alot of band shirts and Metal gear shirts, but I do like to be presentable when I go out into the world.

• ugh - I'll bet she's a fucking IT manager.

• Check on the pink highlighter. Also, I've returned to college to complete a degree, so there are pink notebooks in my bag, too. :-) I would just as soon have emerald and forest green, but the bottom line is that I want gadgets and tech to come in colors, so I buy in colors -- I'm teaching companies that if they build it, there's a market for it.

• Is it just me or does Barbie look like she's straight from 1986? Wristwatch by Swatch and clothes styled by Ocean Pacific. Sigh, she finally made it in todays world only to be caught in yesterdays fashions. Wasnt Barbie supposed to represent fashionable? Geek and fashion, can they not get along?

• But if she did . . .

• Her full name is Barberie Anne Millicent Hordeslaughter

• Laptop Barbie! Laptop BARBIE!! LAPTOP BARBIE!!!!!

• I really wish they'd put her in the NERD HERD costume that Kristen Kruek's been sporting in Chuck the last few weeks. That would have been even better

• Where the hell was this doll when I was growing up! I like this barbie a lot better.

• how is this a win you sellout barbie is a vapid cunt

• Nerds have officially won at everything in the world now. And i'm not going to lie... i kinda want to buy a real person version of that shirt for my wife.

• Oh... lame. I thought maybe she was driving computerized trains or something like that. Not that kind of engineer. I see.

• YES!! YES!! nerd girls of the future, COME TO PAPA!!

• good hopefully its the first key to the world winding up free forever of Barbie that hope sales on this doll do so well by those who normaly do not buy barbie that Mattel freaks and winds up finaly killing the most evil doll ever that gives girls an unrelistic view of things. but mostly yes the key to hopefuly seeing the end of Barbie has been found.

• I'm so going to get this for Christmas X.X Even if I have to buy it myself, for myself. I can't freaking wait, this is going right on my computer desk...

• Now she can program my VCR. 539

• I'm going to own the crap out of this. Though I'll act like the child I was and dye her fucking hair. Maybe buy her a pair of pants though. As much as I love tights, I'm against tights as pants..or maybe a longer dress... WAY TO GET ME BACK INTO BARBIE! fucking christ.

• I'm kind of seriously jealous of all your pink tech. I'm stuck with pinks coats, hats, and like everything else...had a pink ipod case though...and a pink book light. Pink highlighter..ughh I need to work on this.

• If you're saying that her clothes are fucking hideous, then yes.

• P(ink)SOD

• As a former tech geek turned girlie limo driver, I fully support this!

• I'm counting it as a plus that it says anything at all, instead of just being random digits.

• Hmm...computer engineer Barbie? Shouldn't they have used an Indian Barbie and had her wearing a headset? Our outsourcing, you has it!

• To the people complaining that she's still in "Barbie" style clothing, what the hell were you expecting? A completely different character? It's Barbie, for crying out loud. Of course she was still going to be wearing pink girly outfits.

• Geez is there anything this woman can't do?

• She's like a Pokemon. She can only say her name.

• Barbie doesn't come with a kung fu grip. :P

• Aww, why hate on the pink-wearing geeks? They do exist! That's why I exhaustively catalogued my pinkness earlier. I know plenty of tech women who dress very like this -- tunic, leggings, bright colors. We're here, we're pink, and we're evidently defying your expectations of what geek women look like. :-)

• "As a computer engineer, Barbie will show girls that women can turn their ideas into realities that have a direct and positive impact on people's everyday lives in this <b>exciting</b> and rewarding career." lol

• This made my week (which maybe says more about the week I've had, but whatever).

• Make us proud Barbie! Although I can´t seem to figure out how you will with so much pink hardware. But it´s a lot better than all your previous jobs.

• Figures that'd be the only thing she could write in binary.

• Despite the absurdly girly colors and outfit, I'm glad that Barbie's bust and waist sizes seem to have been altered to be more reaistic than they used to be! She really should be wearing a JoCo "Code Monkey" shirt, though...

• Is it wrong that I kind of want that shirt? And I have a fair number of geeky female friends who have awesome fashion senses--being girly doesn't make them any less geeky. Rock on, Barbie.

• Best news I've heard all day. That's one x-mas present taken care of this year, huzzah!

• Or both... :)

• Obviously they've never met a real computer engineer girl if they think those girls wear that. My ex was one and she dressed like a hobo.

• I know my share of female geeks and we don't have pink netbooks or binary-print shirts. Can we get Barbie some Chuck Taylor's a shirt that's a little more geek chic?

• You can tell she's smart. She's wearing glasses.

• Heh, did anyone else check the binary on her screen? I was disappointed there wasn't a cool hidden message. 01000010 01100001 01110010 01100010 01101001 01100101 01000010 01100001 01110010 01100010 01101001 01100101 01000010 01100001 01110010 01100010 01101001 01100101 B a r b i e B a r b i e B a r b i e

• I can't help but notice that Barbie's monitor makes it appear that her computer has locked up. What a "computer engineer"! LOL

• Is that anorexic Mimi from the Drew Carey Show?

• Finally something to give my little nieces to properly corrupt them. This is an absolute win, a step forward for geekdom.

• "To create an authentic look, Barbie® designers worked closely with the Society of Women Engineers and the National Academy of Engineering " Because had it been left to nerds to design her outfit, she'd be in a thong bikini...or a cosplay outfit.

• Mattel, please make with that awesome top and watch in the binary pattern! I'd buy them.

• Barbie can read a screen full of binary code! SHE'S ENTERED THE MATRIX!!!!!

• I have the pink HP netbook, the matching pink mini mouse, and pink glasses. Oooo, I even have a pink bluetooth earpiece, but I don't wear it very often. I keep that pink netbook in a pink neoprene sleeve, in my custom pink and green Timbuk2 bag, where I also tuck away my pink -- actually, Berry Mauve -- cell phone, my pink Nintendo DS, and my iPod Touch (with a coordinating pink skin). OMG, I have become Barbie. Or Barbie has become me. Pinktech FTW!

• Huzzah! Our votes actually did something! I'm rather amused by their consulting for fashion. And I'll definitely take a real-person size version of that shirt. And the jacket. Geek Barbie for the win!

• She's hot ;)

• ROTF at Bad Horse. cheeky. ;)

• my first thought at this: Sarah Connor Doll would use Computer Engineer Barbie as a toilet mop. <i>"All the girls who imagine their futures through Barbie will learn that engineers - like girls - are free to explore infinite possibilities, limited only by their imagination,"</i> ...sure, as long as it's PINK! and PRETTY! and wearing totally inappropriate clothes in a professional setting (skin-tight leggings as pants?) oh, and did I mention pink? and pretty? This is a "win" for little girls like having your puppy pee on the tile floor instead of the carpet is a win. or maybe I'm just cranky because I haven't eaten yet.

• Fuck that noise! Barbie is tauren warrior all the way! FOR THE HORDE!

• I'm actually very hapy to see Barbie have a legitamate job that actually involves some level of skill in this day and age. Quite frankly, most households can't afford to have a homemaker, and both spouses have to work. In other words, welcome to reality, Barbie. Now, if only they would alter your dimensions so that you weren't 8 feet tall with a 10 inch waist in real life.....

• That pink netbook is so going to fall down. Balancing it on the palm of your hand and arm is not proper laptop holding procedure, Barbie.

• Shouldn't her laptop have a still of her level 80 night elf hunter?

• I have a friend who has the pink HP netbook and it is both ludricous and hella cute, so yeah I do think this is what Barbie would use. The t-shirt should totally be nerdier, though.

• C++ is hard!

• I'm totally anti-Barbie, but even I kinda want this one.

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