More missteps included Talking Barbie’s proclamation "Math is hard," and the pink scale on 1965’s Sleepytime Gal slumber party set stuck on 110 pounds—while average American women were ...

In 1992, the phrase “Math is hard” was programmed into the Teen Talk Barbie doll, enraging feminists. It is pleasing now to see that some extreme feminists seem are trying to prove it really ...

or “I love to shop, don’t you?” One phrase of the over 200 possibilities was “Math class is hard!” Despite that fact that most of the Barbie phrases would nowadays strike a pretty sexist ...

In 1992, Teen Talk Barbie chanted "math class is tough," causing a storm ... In math, if I say something is irreducible, that has a very specific meaning. I like the fact that math is hard because ...

when the Teen Talk Barbie uttered the phrase "Math class is tough ... a mix of things that are "boy" or "girl" toys. But it's so hard to fight the marketing. Check out Stemwedel's piece ...

Remember Teen Talk Barbie? Of course you do! She was the one that got famous for shaking her pretty blonde head and moaning, "Math class is tough!" which, of course, sent a terrible message to ...

"That idea of an anti-Barbie made a lot of sense given the ... was pressure to deliver the “dramatic equivalent of ‘math is hard,'” according to the magazine. Her “affectionate and ...

In the 1990s, for example, the company caught flak for a talking Barbie that uttered the phrase "math class is tough." Related: 5,300 jobs at risk as two big UK retailers collapse Recenty ...