https://webbish6.com Jeannine Hall Gailey's Poetry Blog Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:17:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 44757611 https://webbish6.com/1843/ https://webbish6.com/1843/#comments Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:17:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/1843/ 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.)

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