My 12 year old niece is extremely jealous of her 10 year old brother who, at the last Cub Scout camp out slept in a tent, had a hatchet and knife throwing range, a hand built crane and a zip line. The boys get to do all the cool stuff, she said. She said all the girls do is camp in cabins and sell stuff. (She neglected to mention the girls slept over at NASA last month, which was very cool.)
The problem here is not a nefarious and evil conspiracy by the guys to hold the women pregnant and barefoot at home, like that activist She- Man on Jezebel would have us believe. They are just doing guy stuff. None of the women running the Girl Scouts will make the effort to do the cool guy stuff. The problem here is the women running the show. They are constraining the girls to do girl stuff. >From what I understand about today's schooling, there is no lack of opportunity like that for either gender. Students can excell at what ever they are interested in without constraints based on gender. It has been this way for a long time. Why are there not more females in computer science? Could it be as simple as boys will be boys and girls will be girls? No amount of political correctness or cross gender engineering is going to change that. No one should try. On Dec 7, 2:33 am, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 7, 9:30 am, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Well, for what it's worth, my 18 month old daughter is a big fan of both > > mythbusters and Lego :) > > Awesome! So there's hope yet :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
