Comments on: It's a Girl Thing

By: Articles of Interest 6/29/2012 « National Creativity Network

Articles of Interest 6/29/2012 « National Creativity Network — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 16:13:39 +0000

[...] It’s a Girl Thing - Blog: Discover Magazine [...]

By: Tony Mach

Tony Mach — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:06:25 +0000

The video is as awful as Oingo Boingo’s “Weird Science” – but Oingo sounds better.

By: Fluttertoes

Fluttertoes — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 17:28:43 +0000

Try telling that to guys who do ballet on pointe when they go shopping for pointe shoes. Damn near impossible to find any.

Fortunately, the shoes last nearly forever, since men aren’t allowed to dance on pointe professionally, except in drag.

By: Newsy « jasminenbailey

Newsy « jasminenbailey — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:22:43 +0000

[...] But when the video went viral Friday, it was attacked for taking the wrong approach to the problem. A writer for Discover Magazine explains. [...]

By: DieFledermaus

DieFledermaus — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 23:05:38 +0000

I’m a guy and I wish my science were this glamorous.

By: Magoonski

Magoonski — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 22:11:16 +0000

The EU Commission must be made up of all men who are REALLY old fashion because this video reflects nothing about reality.

By: Clarence

Clarence — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:17:37 +0000

Science is not “unmanly”?
Last I heard being a “nerd” or a “geek” wasn’t a good thing for a man, at least if you weren’t a financially successful one.

People do what they love. Many women don’t love science and they don’t particularly treat the men who do science or technology very well. The feminists on here would have you believe that the only reason that more girls don’t do science or technology is because of the evil male geek culture. This is ridiculous on its face, and this whining also overlooks the fact that as a percentage the amount of men and women who get degrees in science is rather pathetic. We need programs that attract both boys AND girls to the sciences, instead this post and the comments are basically a bunch of whining about a video whose heart is very much in the right place.

Regardless, if science had more sexual cultural cachet or if one could promise a very lucrative career, I’m sure we could get more men and women into the fields.

By: Swinetist

Swinetist — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 07:10:43 +0000

This is an unprofessional and borderline sexist video but by no means the worst produced by the EU’s media (propaganda) arm.

Unconvinced? Watch this notoriously racist EU “growing together” video, which depicts the BRICs nations (minus Russia) as violent dark-skinned males attacking a white woman (Europe). Complete, shameless falsification of history considering that European nations were the aggressors and colonizers. Tells you more about the mindset of the EU than anything else.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlOzeJ5iqME

By: Jiyo Charlie

Jiyo Charlie — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 05:48:10 +0000

Science has been boys world for last 2 millenenums – There are only a few madame curies out there. Kitchen is science too, raising kids is science too. I think there should be more learning aids like this that focus on girls and not boys – http://amazonlivedeals.com/lego-10175-star-wars-vaders-tie-advanced-starfighter/ . This will tremendously help girl kids get exposure to science.

By: Mark McAndrew

Mark McAndrew — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 03:01:19 +0000

Also from the same producers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS37SNYjg8w