Hmm... not that I bothered to read the whole speech, but he seems to reading a bit much into his daughters' reactions. If someone were to do a broader study, I suspect they would find a lot more girls mothering toy trucks than girls vroom-vrooming their dolls around and crashing them into each other... but it's still quite a leap from there to a genetic predisposition. And a study of the converse, giving boys nothing but dolls to play and so on with would be quite interesting, though many people would probably draw altogether different conclusions from that...
Here's a tangentially-related link discussing a gender-related "issue" among women in technical/well-paying professions.
Okay enough serious comments:
>rather personally, I'm afraid. Yes, there's quite a bit of societal >pressure going on, but... genetic? (Is he calling me unnatural?)
Not that there would be anything wrong with being a little unnatural. In fact, maybe inclinations toward things technical are just the beginning... not merely unnatural, but a mutation, and next come the psychic abilities, adamantium claws, and/or ability to borrow the powers of others.
>This story eventually spawned a star, the low-class rebel car who >rose defiantly through the ranks by being the fastest.
Little do we know that kittenscribble is actually the ghostwriter of the next Pixar film, and these childhood memories are her inspiration ;-)
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Date: 2005-02-23 01:52 pm (UTC)Here's a tangentially-related link discussing a gender-related "issue" among women in technical/well-paying professions.
Okay enough serious comments:
>rather personally, I'm afraid. Yes, there's quite a bit of societal
>pressure going on, but... genetic? (Is he calling me unnatural?)
Not that there would be anything wrong with being a little unnatural. In fact, maybe inclinations toward things technical are just the beginning... not merely unnatural, but a mutation, and next come the psychic abilities, adamantium claws, and/or ability to borrow the powers of others.
>This story eventually spawned a star, the low-class rebel car who
>rose defiantly through the ranks by being the fastest.
Little do we know that kittenscribble is actually the ghostwriter of the next Pixar film, and these childhood memories are her inspiration ;-)