It's fiction, that's supposed to be empowering to little girls. So, it can be about anything we want. They could have just as easily made her a designer and programmer. They could have just as easily made her capable of fixing her own computer.
I design and code websites and games. If I get a virus, I fix it myself. I don't need my boyfriend or other males to do any of that for me. I do ask for help when I need it, but I try to keep this to a minimum. This "book" could have been written so many ways, and it makes me sad to see a woman continuing to write Barbie as a vacuous and powerless girl.
I read it that she IS capable of fixing her own computer, but was directing others in said fixing in this story.
As for not making her a designer and programmer, who can say? Maybe the author wanted to emphasize collaboration, like what typically happens in industry when you're in a decently sized company?
We'll never know, and it's your typical low quality book mill pulp anyway, so one can't expect much in the way of consistency or storytelling. Worthy of a 1-star rating, not a whole blog post.
Showing collaboration is great, but in "I Can Be A Computer Engineer" she should be collaborating with artists, possibly a designer, possibly other coders to work with her. Not doing things that have little to nothing to do with computer engineering.
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It's fiction, that's supposed to be empowering to little girls. So, it can be about anything we want. They could have just as easily made her a designer and programmer. They could have just as easily made her capable of fixing her own computer.
I design and code websites and games. If I get a virus, I fix it myself. I don't need my boyfriend or other males to do any of that for me. I do ask for help when I need it, but I try to keep this to a minimum. This "book" could have been written so many ways, and it makes me sad to see a woman continuing to write Barbie as a vacuous and powerless girl.
I read it that she IS capable of fixing her own computer, but was directing others in said fixing in this story. As for not making her a designer and programmer, who can say? Maybe the author wanted to emphasize collaboration, like what typically happens in industry when you're in a decently sized company? We'll never know, and it's your typical low quality book mill pulp anyway, so one can't expect much in the way of consistency or storytelling. Worthy of a 1-star rating, not a whole blog post.
Showing collaboration is great, but in "I Can Be A Computer Engineer" she should be collaborating with artists, possibly a designer, possibly other coders to work with her. Not doing things that have little to nothing to do with computer engineering.
Yes you are right. But the title should reflect that.