One of my goals is to encourage more young women to be curious, to challenge the norm and be fearless in their pursuit of their dreams. Take every exciting opportunity that comes your way. Choose to be curious. Choose science.
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
He knows how to play his target audience, doesn't he?
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
To assist everyone in this mammoth task, pi will be rounded off to 3.
It's casual pi-day
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
Gob wrote:He knows how to play his target audience, doesn't he?
"Play" assumes he is insincere and his audience uninformed, and/or able to be manipulated. Is that what you're trying to say?
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“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
Even informed audiences can be manipulated 9or gently steered in the "correct" direction) if the speaker uses the right words; that's kind of what Abe Lincoln said. sure, it doesn't work all the time, but I've seen it work more often than I'd like. I recall how the antiwar protests of the 60s/70s turned violent, often by the right speaker "playing" to the audience, first to shout down any other speakers, and then to rise up and show them we mean business. Many in the protests were well-informed, and many/most abhorred violence, but appealing to the anger worked (and it eventually drove me from much of the movement).
I'm more interested in why the hostility towards Trudeau. Or his "audience."
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
When I was going for my bsee degree, I can distinctly remember only 3 females persuing an electrical engineering degree during that time. And of those three, only one stuck it out and graduated with that degree.
In Computer Science (aka software at the time) there were more, but not anywhere near 50/50.
Canada suffered one of the most horrific & notorious femicides in moderns times related to women in the sciences - an event which doubtless had an impact on Trudeau's developing world view.
Back in the day when I was in school, the Double E (electrical engineering) degree was considered the absolute hardest to get. One brother-in-law has one from the Missouri School of Mines. Another brother-in-law has one from University of Oklahoma. My wife wanted one, but her parents said absolutely not, that is NOT for females.
OK, the Rockies *win* Pi Day (yes, this is even better than Justin Trudeau):
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
