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1st-Mar-2008 12:26 pm

This particular "happy new month" post is dedicated to

firthofforth

As previously, we present the following as a public service.

Thirty-one Ways to Celebrate EXPANDING GIRLS' HORIZONS IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING MONTH

1. Encourage a girl to become a canopy researcher.
2. Encourage a girl to become a botanist.
3. Buy a girl a t-shirt.
4. Encourage a girl to go to medical school.
5. Encourage that girl to use her medical school training to study biological revivification.
6. Encourage a girl to enter her school science fair.
7. Encourage a girl to try her hand at inventing things.
8. Encourage a girl to become the Director of Genetic Research for a major corporation.
9. Go look for girls at the Home for Deranged Scientists.
10. Encourage a girl to become a biomedical student in Britain.
11. Buy a girl any number of clothing items.
12. Encourage a girl to become an astronaut
13. Encourage a girl to think big
14. Encourage a girl to become a marine biologist
15. Encourage a girl to become a geneticist.
16. Encourage a girl to study prehistoric botany
17. Encourage a girl to study biology.
18. Encourage a girl to study etymology.
19. Encourage a girl to become a broadcast engineer.
20. Encourage a girl to study quantum physics.
21. Help a girl earn her badge
22. Encourage a girl to study the biotherapy possibilities of larval Diptera.
23. Encourage a girl to become a meteorologist.
24. Encourage a girl to try out evil science for a while.
25. Play a really terrible song for a girl.
26. Encourage a girl to study biological and chemical warfare.
27. Encourage a girl to become an anthropologist.
28. Encourage a girl to become a psychology professor who dabbles in biology and robotics.
29. Explain to a girl that there are many ways to be involved in scientific pursuits.
30. Encourage a girl to study nostalgia science.
31. Encourage a girl to become a nuclear physicist.

Tags:happy new month
Mood:accomplished
Music:John Hiatt - Have a Little Faith in Me

Comments

1st-Mar-2008 06:23 pm (UTC)

firthofforth

sadly, it appears ENGINEERS are sadly underrepresented on your list.

And to boot - your ONE engineering entry is false. I hate to break it to you communication majors but broadcast engineering isn't really engineering. Think of it this way...maintenence engineers aren't REALLY engineers, they just work on the equipment but the title 'engineer' was misappropriated in order to what, boost self-esteem? (like secretaries are now administrative assistants) ...as Wikipedia points out:

An engineer is someone who is trained or professionally engaged in a branch of engineering.[1] Engineers use technology, mathematics, and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems. People who work as engineers typically have an academic degree (or equivalent work experience) in one of the engineering disciplines.

Engineering Disciplines unfortunately do not include "playing with radios" or "communicating"

1st-Mar-2008 08:10 pm (UTC)

whiskeyson

imagine how much better the world would be if everyone said..."You're looking intellegent and talented today" to just one girl once in their lives

2nd-Mar-2008 12:52 am (UTC)

danielmath

i prefer to say "damn, baby, you looking so fine."

2nd-Mar-2008 05:09 pm (UTC)

firthofforth

what does "intellegent" look like?

and why don't we like Intellegence any more? poor Hillary is going down because men, in particular, seem to not like her "personality." Read "too smart and too masculine." Women with masculine traits freak men out. (generalization of course).

just my particular rant of the day.

2nd-Mar-2008 05:28 pm (UTC)

robertaroberts

girls can be anything they want, as long as boys are okay with it.

and according to google images this is what intelligent looks like.

2nd-Mar-2008 09:32 pm (UTC)

Lurker

Well. Maybe if she didn't run her campaign by centering around vicious attacks and lies that are easily debunked by a person with mediocre internet skills and fourteen brain cells?

Or, perhaps she panders to the baby boomers, who quite frankly should get busy dying.

Or, it could be (and I am going out on a limb here) people don't like sucking up to the "ban all explicit lyrics in music" crowd, and want her to keep her hands off whatever RockStar decides to put into Grand Theft Auto Four because it's just a damn game about adult subjects FOR adults? Let's not do any _parenting_ or anything, let's just ban a video game so mommy can get a latte and not deal with the whiny little crotch-dropping.

The personality that criticizes the current administration while making wink wink nudge nudge deals with the military industrial complex behind closed doors, when the folks out on the street in her party have said under no uncertain terms "GET OUT OF IRAQ".

THAT personality?

That's not disliking her personality. That's just disliking someone who would be a shitty president.

2nd-Mar-2008 12:01 am (UTC)

robertaroberts

If you have to wear outfits like this

I don't want to be an engineer.

2nd-Mar-2008 05:10 pm (UTC)

firthofforth

well, we must not have gotten the memo at UW...because we were mostly in flannel and chucks. That must be while all the male engin. students dated the education majors.

2nd-Mar-2008 05:32 pm (UTC)

robertaroberts

as an education major I feel like I should apologize, but they weren't dating me either. I was all over the English department. Boys with glasses and books *swoon*

1st-Mar-2008 11:53 pm (UTC)

robertaroberts

why must we continue the farce of "encouraging girls". They will just begin to have convoluted ideas and stop making my dinner.

2nd-Mar-2008 04:40 am (UTC)

hardcorehuntin

This post gets my misogyny gene all in a tizzy. The best thing about it is number three though. Recently on wiredtv they did a history of the Chemistry Set, most of which were for boys. In the case of scientifically minded females, you could get them a "Lab Technician Set."

It also makes me think of how much fun me and my dad had playing Battleship when I was a kid..

But if V's above post about attire is accurate, I might have to change my opinion of females having jobs!

5th-Mar-2008 05:35 pm (UTC)

starving_cynic

i own that dress. but my apron is red, not yellow.

2nd-Mar-2008 03:46 pm (UTC)

ilikemusic

I think you mean "entomology" on number 18 there.
I'll get back to the housework now.

2nd-Mar-2008 03:49 pm (UTC)

Lurker

Girls generally don't do anything I encourage them to do anyway.

In my next life, I am going to be a "Sanitation Engineer" so I can get all the free calculators that have a broken "9" key, or a toaster oven with only setting that works. Oh, and drink a lot of Pabst.

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