The EU’s "Science: It’s A Girl Thing" Video Prompts Backlash
The EU produced this video encouraging more women to pursue careers in science. Unfortunately, it ended up reinforcing, rather than subverting, a lot of stereotypes. The video was taken down, but not before someone mirrored it.
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gubbabump 10 months agooh I see the problem: if women are considered both attractive and intelligent while being treated as equals then they’ll have to actually live up to the unreal images they’ve created of themselves as perfect beings instead of just demanding that men take their word for it! no fair!
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