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Re: Are all girl FIRST team counterproductive to the philosophy of FIRST?

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Originally Posted by Dumper FTW 435 View Post

Maybe they want girls because they want the kids to have strong female role models? But I hate that idea. Why do they assume that a kids role model has to be the same gender as them? I have both male and female role models that I aspire to be more like. It seems sexist to show a girl a strong female role model for the purpose of saying "even girls can be good at this!" instead of showing them any strong role model to say "this is the type of person you can become if you work hard!".
role models that you can relate to are incredibly important and usually the first thing we know about somebody is their sex. put a adolescent male in a new school at lunch there is a table of boys and a table of girls. I don't know about you, but i would only put money on one option.

to look at it the other way. I don't know the actual figures but i would say based on public perception that fashion design is made up of primarily woman and camp gay men. now if a fashion design club were to start in a high school how many strait men do you think will join/ stay with it (that are not of the mind set of "$@#$@#$@#$@# stereotypes ill do what i want and prove i can be just as good" etc.) but instead think that maybe its kinda cool it cant hurt to try it out as a possible career option? if the club had strong male role models in the fashion industry do you think those numbers would be different?
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