Tuesday, December 11, 2007

"Actual" correctness

Hehe, I love this! Take that, Lawrence Summers.
I remember when I was a little kid I took a "science in the summer" course at the local library. At the end of the session, our instructor said, "Some day you may hear someone saying that girls aren't good at math and science. I want you to know that that's absolutely UNTRUE." At the time, I couldn't understand why he even bothered to tell us that; I couldn't imagine anyone actually claiming that girls can't do math and science. But as I've grown older (and immersed myself more and more in engineering), I'm so glad that the first time I ran into that stereotype was when I was told it was false.

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