[Novalug] [OT] Toys: Newest Barbie

Elllis Pierce ellis@epierce.net
Sat Feb 13 17:47:08 EST 2010


On Saturday 13 February 2010 05:21:28 pm Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
>
> My sarcastic - semi humerous point is that there may be an illusion
> that pretty girls in our society are averse to math, etc - but in
> actuality we are in the middle of a society in which scientific and
> logical endeavors are spurned and looked down on by most of the
> population irrespective of their sex.
>

One of my wife's best friends was a female aeronautical engineer in the 50s.

My daughter "couldn't do math", but solved breakeven problems strictly using 
logic, and loved spherical trig (otherwise known as celestial navigation) :)





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