Friday 22 June 2012

Science: It's a girl thing - unlike this video!

This video is so dreadful I hardly know where to begin.  If you haven't seen it, here it is:

This video tells girls looking at science, well nothing.  It's just models dancing sexily for a guy in a lab coat, while things go wrong in the lab.

What messages could girls, as the target audience be taking away from this:
  • You should look sexy for the men scientists
  • You should love pink
  • Stuff might be happening in labs, but you should be too busy dancing to notice
  • Safety glasses are just like sunglasses
  • Science - not a woman thing
There is no information whatsoever.  There aren't even any women scientists.  Or any science.  Gah!

I want to write more on this (maybe later), but I have SCIENCE to do!

(Really, I have a paper due Monday!)