Comment Re:From Experience (Score 1) 561
Someone who wants to be offended can find reason to with anything.
- Barbie's a manager who employs male engineers: "This teaches girls that women need men to do their work for them!"
- Barbie's an engineer working for a male manager: "This teaches girls that women will always be subservient to men!"
- Barbie's a member of an all-female engineering team: "This teaches girls that women can't work on an equal footing with men!"
- Barbie's a member of a racially, culturally, ethnically, and genderally diverse autonomous collective who share all the tasks equally: "This teaches girls that women can only be generalists and never excel in any particular area! Oh, and socialism!"
It sounds to me like the group who should *really* be offended are the computer engineers for being so badly misrepresented. Oh, and Barbie fans because it makes Barbie (not women in general, just this particular woman) look like a freaking idiot. (Going on the descriptions here; of course I haven't read the book. Who needs actual facts when we're surrounded by all this juicy hearsay and speculation?)
And yes, "genderally" is a perfectly cromulent word.