Phineas and Ferb is awesome. I'm 22 and I watch that show. Your frustration is justified IMO. Among the other interests I had growing up were movies like Joh

Phineas and Ferb is awesome. I'm 22 and I watch that show. Your frustration is justified IMO. Among the other interests I had growing up were movies like Johnny Tsunami and Brink where I wanted to get out and be a cool extreme sports athlete like the main characters in those movies. The fact that I picked the tech industry IMO shows that society doesn't always push kids to pick things up from examples, but providing the option to discover interests via same-gendered examples is imperative in my opinion. I really have no data for this other than my own personal experiences, however I did read a blog post maybe a year ago on the effects of television and career path choice which I thought was interesting.