Geeky Barbie

Do female geeks look like this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8517097.stm :heart:drool

 

God, I've the feeling you've started something.
I'll sit back and watch the fallout.:-D

 

There is no way this thread could turn out good lol.

 

Seemed perfectly suitable to me!
:-D:-D:-D

 

LOL Wow...that's just...wow.

 

I'm with Kestrel on this one

 

I guess it just bugs me that the standard assumption is that in order to be feminine we have to wear pink and have pink accessories. I have always hated pink.

 

I prefer a girl in purple myself, but to each their own

 

Believe it or not, about 200 years ago, pink was a boy's colour and purple a girl's. That's from QI, by the way.

 

I dont know that I place colors in categorys by sex though pink is kinda iffy on a guy lol though there are some who can pull it off.

 

If she can, she has me beat... :-D

Yep. I am a hardware geek who is also a nail snob. I hate working inside the PC for long stretches of time, it's murder on my cuticles and the corners of my nails. Not to mention what it does to the manicure I spent hours on... ugh. There needs to be nail-friendly computer components! :mad

 

See you had to mention nails, do you realise thats thier favorite thing to complain about is breaking a nail lol j/k

 

Hm... and "they" would be....?

 

All the beautiful kind hearted amazingly intelligent women with great personalitys that will be reading this thread

 

When needed I can do it myself lol I even cut my own hair. Just dont trust other to do it

 

I have always preferred purple. :-D But then I've said for as long as I can remember that I am always female, but I am rarely a girl. There is a definite difference. LOL

Not that there's anything wrong with being girly, it just ain't for me. If you ever watch NCIS, picture Abby, but without the goth hair and makeup. :-D

 

Er... *looks around in confusion* Oh! You mean Laura! :-D

 

Let's see. Blond hair, pink laptop. Get yourself some pink half-frames and I'd say you're pretty much there.roflmao

 

You learn fast, my friend. Well done with the crawling and fawning. That was a potentially sticky situation. Stickier than when Sticky the stick insect got stuck on a sticky bun.

 

It's just stereotyping, which is what flogging merchandise is. Does not correspond to the majority of real world situations. I mean, not a lot of people look like the real Barbie anyway. ~ How many guys look like, (or would even want to), the 'Ken' doll either, comes to that.

Not realistic, but I'm guessing a fat, pimple-faced doll in pig-tails wouldn't sell many dolls, either.

 

Looks like a girl i dated.

 

I always felt sorry for Ken. If Barbie is too thin to be able to have any vital organs, he's missing a few vital ones too, last I looked....

 

That's my dream. I hate cutting my nails.. It's a nuisance. My sister in law & her family have a salon, and I'm always asking her how much it costs, even to just have my nails cut.. One day.. lol

 

You know that makes sense. Purple being a darker color would have a slimming effect on women. While pink being a lighter color, but not as easily stained as white, would make men appear larger.

 

I'm pretty sure you're not saying that the true stereotype of a female geek is a fat, pimple-faced girl in pigtails, right?

By the way, if you're spending more than $20 on a full manicure, you're going to the wrong place. :-D

 

All they've done is give her a pink laptop,it still begs the question if she's so hot why work in IT when she could make much more modelling or the more common career choice of hot women,marrying a rich man? Hehe bring it:-D

And what about Ken?All he ever seems to do is chill and buzz around topless in his dune buggy, Barbie will never be as smart as Ken.:-D

 

Depends on where you live... in this town, $25 is the going rate.

 

I love how all the gentlemen in this topic are endangering their own lives with such comments.

My personal opinion is that I don't care what the IT staff looks like, as long as my computer gets fixed.

 

OK here goes shh, when Barbie came out and I remember well because a friend brought one home to her Daughter who's name was Barbie. That was the 1950's, and please excuse what I'm about to say but being grossly over weight back then was not the norm. When people went out their door they were dressed nicely.
It was a time girls wore dresses, boys wore jeans for play.
So yeah, back when she was born she was more typical to the look at that time.
Why turn her slovenly the way people dress now.

 

More people were out and had jobs where they could engage in physical labor, not sitting in office chairs typing at computers and eating fattening food to keep up mental energy for the eight hours of the day.

As for the way people dress, I'm glad to see people realizing that it doesn't actually matter what other people think of them. Anyone who dismisses me because of the way I dress is too shallow for me to want anything to do with.

 

Honestly, I know a few geek chicks (no offense) that would blow Barbie out of the water in the looks department.

As to the mani-pedi comments...... if you've ever gone to an asian nail salon, this should sound familiar...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsWrY77o77o


~C

 

and all we are is dust in the wind.....


Sorry, couldn't resist a little song lead in there... :-D


~C

 

Ditto! Although I do have to admit when I showed up at "my" bar after my niece's wedding, still wearing my dress and makeup, the sound guy asked me what I was supposed to be. (She got married in late October.) LOL

 

Nah, as said a 'Geek' can look as different as a non-Geek. It was more a tongue-in-cheek comment as to what types of stereotypical dolls sales and marketing people like to flog. Since Barbie dolls are usually sold for the use of pre-pubescent girls, stereotype/fantasy plays a big part. It's like 'My Little Pony' and Lion King dolls. You're not supposed to buy your daughter a pink pony or Lion cub, it's just play fantasy, for goodness sake.rolleyes

As for what Geeks look like. I was a geek 20 years before the term ever became popular. But at 6'1" and about 200lbs - often in camos and T-shirt around the house, I don't think I look like some socially inept, book worm in horn-rimmed glasses and propeller hat, either.:heli

I work with Geek types all the time. What they look/sound like is usually the last thing on my mind. Unless I get asked out, then I may take a second look. LOL

 

She (Barbie is a product of that time. Just as Raggedy Ann's heart is on her chest and Cabbage Patch Kids have outty belly buttons and Xavier Roberts name on their butt.



PS, when I use the term slovenly I'm referring to these guys with their pants hanging so far down you can see more of their boxers then pants. I wouldn't want him working next to me anywhere! Besides he could only work with one hand anyway. :-D

 

Let's see http://bestsmileys.com/silly/1.gif

 

I was just yankin' your chain a bit. I know you better than that. :-D

If I'm in work clothes, people assume I'm an aging goth wannabe being that I'm required to wear all black. I always tell them I was goth before goth was cool, and they're copying me. LOL

 

One of my granddaughters had a brunette Barbie dressed in black, she cut it's hair and decided it looked like GRANDMA, still asks me if I have it. and, Yes I do

 

So you were actually the real thing then, given that "cool" is practically the polar opposite of goth...?

People never believe me when I say I'm goth. Must be the brightly colored t-shirts and regular-looking jeans, along with a lack of what in their minds counts as "goth make-up". LOL I always reply that goth is a mindset, not a fashion statement, and if that if they thought being goth was all about appearance and nothing else, they've completely misunderstood it. And then I tell them that I'm not the least bit surprised they have. :-D