106 Days

106 days until Washington D.C.!!! CRAZY!

Barbies and Blonds

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/29398/journalism-barbie-marks-the-end-of-real-news/

I am a blond. I like pink. I am also a journalism major.

Does this make me irrelevant?

I have a journalism in Washington D.C. nest semester, I have a great G.P.A. and my goal is to do something worth while in my life. I want to impact the world, not stand their in front of camera men reading off TelePrompTers. Journalism may be changing, but is not become obsolete. If anything itis expanding through means of other media.

"Barbie isn’t stupid—there are astronaut and doctor Barbies out there, and even a CEO Barbie—it’s really her fans (10 year-old girls and Rachel Zoe) who are dummies. At the New York Toy Fair last February, a spokesperson from Mattel announced that the 125th anniversary edition of Barbie would either be an architect, a computer engineer, an environmentalist, a surgeon or a journalist, and that it would be up to a world-wide vote of Barbie fans to decide which she’d be.

It seems as though the girls who used to be obsessed with Barbies grew up into journalists and voted this new doll into existence. Whenever I meet an astoundingly dumb, over-dressed female, it almost invariably comes up that she majored in journalism. It seems the journalism major is the new psych major. And now we’re all on Lexapro."

Yeah, I like Barbie. I did not know of this vote, but if I did I am sure I would have voted for a journalist. I do not appreciate the sexist approach. I am a young women, but I am not trying to enter the media world to sleaze myself out to camera sections. I want to make a difference in this world.