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10/22/09
I think this comic pretty well covers it. But good on Sally Ride for working to fight these stereotypes. There are still so many social limitations on what women really are "allowed" to do, what is expected to be "natural" for them because of their gender. It's a slow fight to change that. #sallyride
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As a kid my parents, friends and family always got me things like microscopes and science kits for X-mas because that stuff really interested me. But I never was as good at science/math as English and hence I later became a journalism major.
You all can blame society all you want for not pursuing math careers, but I'm not going to. #sallyride
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With that said, I would have agreed with @Armed with Vitriol before I got to college because I was pretty lucky in terms of the family I was born to. But then I got to college and realized that my experience isn't the same as the one that many of my friends have had.
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[www.psychologymatters.org] #sallyride
10/22/09
Really though, why can't we be happy she's founded this program to encourage girls to pursue math and science if it interests them, and leave it at that? Comments like yours are the reason that she had to found a freaking program to encourage girls in math and science. #sallyride
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Melissa Franklin, a physics professor, said she wished that Harvard had "a president who can add something positive rather than something negative." And while she didn't call for Summers to resign, she said his remarks constituted "a resignable thing."
"The biggest problem with female science students is confidence," Franklin said. "When they are sitting there constantly saying, 'Am I smart enough? Am I smart enough?' it doesn't really help when the president of the university says, 'Maybe you're not.' " #sallyride
10/22/09
When Summers made those comments, I was a college senior across town at an all women's college. I majored in biochemistry, and every day, I went to class with other smart young women in the sciences. And I remember hearing about his remarks, and just wanting to drag him over into one of our classes to tell him where he could shove his theories on our natural aptitude. #sallyride
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As to your stated point, I really, really, REALY disagree that there are differences. Again, people WANT to believe that the unfairness in the world is justified by something genetic, but time and time again, those ideas have been proven false. #sallyride
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And I am happy for this organization, as I said in my comment. I just don't agree with her point that society is entirely to blame for the fact that not as many women join careers involving science and math. #sallyride
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Perhaps you should step back and stop jumping down my throat, as the commentors on Jezebel are prone to do whenever someone posts an idea they dislike. #sallyride
10/22/09
Except that they're terrible at creative pursuits, and wonderful at analytical science.
And yes, I'm well aware that anecdotal evidence does not a case make. #sallyride
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[www.tgdaily.com] #sallyride
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[www.sciencedaily.com]
and this...
[www.babycenter.com]
[www.sciencedaily.com]
[www.campbell-kibler.com] #sallyride
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Also, swans are vicious buggers. One tried to take off my foot, but luckily I managed to move faster than him. I did get some great photographs of him looking graceful and serene, though.
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I know, I know- I'm not surprised at the Daily Mail but it seems pretty little to make it across the pond.
Also- Oilily filed for bankruptcy. I'm so, so NOT sad. I was tired of overpriced mother/daughter patchwork velvet spats.
06/01/09
No comment, I just wanted to reread that. Crazy, wonderful Karl.
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Keep on with the crazy, Karl!
06/01/09
"A study in the U.K. found that while women make up 52% of the fashion industry's workforce, they are paid 15% less than their male counterparts, and have only 37% of the top job"