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Re: Girls in Engineering- Comic that explains it all

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
It also reinforces gender stereotypes and in general sets the change in the culture we're all pushing for exactly backward.
Exactly.

I feel that despite all the hard work women put into FIRST and engineering, we will always be looked down upon, and its terrible.
There is more to every woman than just her looks. The girls on my team and I have cried because of the sterotypes that keep being forced on us no matter how hard we are trying to change them. Its 'jokes' like these that hurt the most, especially when they come from people in a community that is supposed to support engineering and technology in everyone.

The comic is interesting.
When I first saw it, I thought of Mary Wollstonecraft, who believed that the reason why women were constantly inferior to men was due to their lack of education. As a young child, I played with dolls. I am 15 and still play with dolls. I also grew up playing with my legos, and building stuff with my father. I sew alot, and I am a total 'girly girl'. But at the same time I want to be an engineer. I love science. The reason I do is because of my education. Outside influences at a young age obviously help shape people, however so does education. I think that even if I never built little trinkets with my father when I was four, and only played with dolls, I would still want to be an engineer. My eductation is what made me want that, not the toys I played with when I was four.
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