> if you have a young female relative, watch how many times toys are oriented towards looking good vs. doing anything constructive It's what sells. It sells b

> if you have a young female relative, watch how many times toys are oriented towards looking good vs. doing anything constructive It's what sells. It sells because it's what the children want. The idea that gender is a societal construct is nonsense. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13596-male-monkeys-prefer-boys-toys.html http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13596-male-monkeys-pre... Make monkeys prefer toy trucks. Female monkeys prefer dolls. The doctor behind the "gender is a social construct" based it on David Reimer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer He wasn't entirely truthful. David knew from the beginning he was a boy, despite enormous pressure to believe otherwise. He ended up committing suicide. This kind of gender nonsense kills people. I find it difficult to express just how morally bankrupt it is to deny human nature. > someone reading for comprehension would have realized that the entire article was an extended version of “I should have listened to my teachers rather than the people who convinced me science wasn't for women” I'm happy to note that you don't dispute that she did not accept responsibility for her actions. "I should have listened to them" is a far cry from "I made a bad decision". I'm also happy to note that you also don't dispute she shows bigotry against STEM fields. I'm someone who did a STEM degree because I thought it would pay the bills. Most of my friends didn't. So... I made new friends in the STEM fields. And I didn't do it by putting down arts people as "artsy-fartsy potheads".