Barbie should break the geek ceiling

CAT Tracks Editor's Note:

Bears repeating...

Ho Ho Effing Hum!

Damn, I'm in a pissy mood this morning!

Folks all in an uproar over a 2010 Barbie book?!

Well, excuuuuuse me...

Instead of reading the Chicago Tribune (which bashes teachers with regularity), tune into popular TV programs..."NCIS" and "24", for example.

Bad mouth Abby Sciuto and expect Jethro Gibbs to bop you on the back of the head.

Diss Chloe O’Brian? Expect all kinds of mayhem from Jack Bauer!

TV and the movies are filled with fictional female cyber warriors.

The role models are out there!

But...

The "Barbie Market" is out there too...

...there is a demanding audience for the "proper feminine" stereotype!

By the time that young girls get to school, the mindset is solidly entrenched...

...so, for sure, don't invent another reason to blame the public school system.

It's not the teachers who are running out and buying Barbie dolls and Barbie books and giving them to children.

It's the parents!

Brainwashing begins at home...

...whether it be sexism, racism, or any other "isms" or "phobias".

So...