Be a Nerd Girl

[Madison]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

The intended audience may be middle or high school students but who is to say who the actual audience will be? Some of us recently voted in a competition for Barbie's next career. Look at the website. See any similarities? There is a lot of potential with a concept like Nerd Girls. At this point, it is showing some of the sameness that we, the viewing public, are used to. Barbies. Hopefully, the show will be innovative in helping girls and women break out of the Barbie mold that is shaped for them and about them.

Jane

Jane's touched upon the part that most disappoints me about this program.

Instead of demonstrating to young women that there are alternative avenues of success that do NOT rely on unrealistic expectations of beauty, body type or an ability to own designer clothes, these folks are piling those expectations in front of the important stuff -- changing the world -- and sending a confusing message.

What does this concept demonstrate, exactly? Is it that engineers can be normal people, too? Is it that it's possible for women to be intelligent and remain desirable?

Maybe I just don't get it.