I am finally finishing the latest script that I have been avoiding like the plague. Your Productivity with posts and Tweets have inspired me. Thank you, Slackmistress! -
Also, Just noticed you hail from Glen Ellyn. I was just there a week ago - Visiting Family back there. I knew there was something " Midwest" about you . :)
I'm not hating on the Nerd Girls - I think education is a fabulous thing. I hate the idea that the thing that's supposedly amazing is that they like lipstick and high heels and things that "typical" girls like. Which may be more a function of how the Newsweek writers wrote them (and I think I even say this in my post) rather than who they are.
The whole idea of the NERD GIRLS arose because of a lack of females in the engineering community. The founder is a female professor who felt that she had to overcome to reach the same levels of success that she saw her male counterparts encounter with less [whatever] - typical story in any field.
The point then, that you can extrapolate, is that the NERD GIRLS are meant to be an outreach program. The image of the NERD GIRLS you see has little to do with the actual program, an image created by studios and photographers to sell an image to the bright lights and flashy colors media machine.
The NERD GIRLS are meant to show that girls who tend to shy away from science at a young age because of the stigmas attached to the 'Nerd/Geek/Whatha veyou' community which dictate that you cannot be both 'wanted/beautifuf ul/recognized/pop ular' and also study hard and use your brain for something other than color matching and body painting.
The NERD GIRLS are a good thing. Did they sell out the name a little by doing a super upbeat photoshoot/video shoot, sure. Will there be any negative side-effect as many of you have suggested, absolutely not. This will not cause girls to forget that they are smart. This will not cause girls who are smart to long for beauty any more than every magazine and tv show you've ever heard of already does. Hating (if i may use a colloquialism) on the NERD GIRLS seems to be nit-picking minor aspects of how you 'wouldn't have done this or that' and much less about constructively criticizing a group that is seeking to promote the value of education. So you're against education? Now I understand your point of view...
Love the site! That was the best smack in the jewels since "Man hit by Football in Groin" won an Academy Award. I enjoyed the science lesson as "pain receptors" let the body know to elevate pulse heart rate, etc... Maybe next time they'll show us how the amazing human body will shut down to protect itself when hit repeatedly in the head with a shovel. Sport truly is a sweet science.
Can't get into the chat. Even jumped through the hoops to sign up to be a member. Kicked me out every time I tried to login to the chat. Told me that you weren't live every damn time.
I have not enough time to frame the whole nerdy question... so here goes; Do I write an honest yet brutal blog post about meeting my ex and his fiance while on a jaunt to the old country or do I slap a blog post so think with buttercream icing that the roof of my mouth hurts from the dishonesty of it? the gist is: the ex has become a paunchy vain drunk (the only difference is he was not paunchy when we dated), his euro-fiance who is fugly and shares way to much and has a damn blog dedicated to his being in her country... it is all about him (which suits his vanity).... I am almost insulted by that whole she thinks she is beautiful thing because if that is beautiful I must be freaking Venus or Athena... he drank all the beer in our room.... and according to the fugly fiance; one only has a blog if the blog gets comments... if one writes on a journal online it is not a blog if it does not get comments... yet, she has never commented on mine and I KNOW she has read it... how is that for an insult? or maybe I should have a real buttercream post on the main blog and post the true story on my secret blog? Honestly, I don't know what to do, I generally write the truth, but I am not sure how nice I can be and I have been putting this off so that time may blind me to how it all turned out... Not working.
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