Comment Re:Poor exploited women (Score 1) 490
Of course this is so not helping overcomming gender stereotypes, but can we blame them for using what they've got for personal advantage? It's all about clicks, you you use every kind of click-baiting.
Of course this is so not helping overcomming gender stereotypes, but can we blame them for using what they've got for personal advantage? It's all about clicks, you you use every kind of click-baiting.
OK, now I actually read the article... basically, the article is right in a way it identifies the root problem: The segregation of all toys into boys and girls. Including the idea behind it: Creating less reusable toys. But then, the article failed to notice that this has nothing to do with STEM toys or not. In fact, it is one of three possible solutions:
1. Force toy industry to retreat and have a gender-neutral toy section again, which then could include stem/educational toys
2. Bring stem/educational toys into the dedicated "girls" section by conforming to stereotyped "girls" toys
3. Agains all advertising and peer pressure, somehow get or force your kids to play with toys for the other gender. (Good luck with that one. may be possible, if your kid is able to withstand that peer pressure, he or she would have traced their carreer plans disregarding any social pressure anyway.)
So girls should be interested in programming and other STEM-stuff, but luring them into this field with some pink-colored IDE (or whatever) is ALSO wrong?
So what would be the practical way to get girls interested in STEM-Toys that are geared at boys? It's "Superprincess Barbie" that stamps all those stereotypes onto girls. You can't blame "gendered" science-toys to pick them up in the pink hell where they have already landed.
And what about those people who have "moon unit" as their actual given, real, and not made-up name? (or rather made-up dreamed-up or hallucinated-up by their parents)
because forums like Facebook serve as the modern-day equivalent of the public square for a lot of communities.
We allow private corporations to become "the public"
If it needs wheels, it is not a frgggin' carry-on!
Overhead bins do NOT mean that there is a compartment for each passenger! You're supposed to share that space! But no, everyone nowadays has to bring these cases that aren't much smaller than the suitcase I regularly use for checked baggage! carry on is your survival pack with stuff you need between checking and retrieving your regular baggage, plus a pair of clean underwear and a towel and what you might need if your regular baggage is late.
no fees for flight related service would be enough.
the common term is "US customary units". Also, many countries that use metric for many measurements also still use imperial or other units for some measurements. For example, Canada uses the imperial gallon in many situations, which is ~20% bigger than the US gallon.
Hmm... sounds like the good old times when every region used a different length cubit based on the length of the arm of their current king. Isn't that highly confusing when talking to someone from Canada?
Units are complicated and many people overstate the benefits of having uniform worldwide units. If I'm choosing a unit for how I sell my goods, what's more important, that the person down the street is familiar with the unit, or somebody from Ghana will be familiar if he travels to my store.
Now say... which units would make sense to be used in international air travel..... probably the ones that are understood in all countries including Ghana.
You may go back to your corner store, but this is not about your pint of beer or quart of milk.
How can you measure "preparedness"? How can you BE PREPARED for a bombing scenario?
Prepared to be torn apart by a bomb? What would be usefull to be prepared for in such a scenarion would be first aid. (if you*re close to a bomb explosion but not close enough to get hurt)
So... which kind of "preparedness" could increase to survive a detonating bomb?
What they're talking about is simply called a licence plate
That's why I failed at French but managed to speak a fairly fluent English.
Germans don't seem to mind much, I think any idea of spreading German culture or complaining about immigrants brings up bad memories.
Nah. They're just glad to get a chance to actually use and practice what they had to learn at school. And it's part of the "getting things done" attitude. Use the language that poses the lowest language barrier.
And most people know alone the German concet of grammatical gender will drive any student to madness and back again.
They are not that good, they are just served in larger portions, which makes all the difference..
Good luke with that opinion in Cologne or Düsseldorf.
I'm no expert in US constitutional law, but I doubt that it's modeled after chatholic church law. And Ex-presidents shouldn't be as surprising as having an ex-pope for the first time.
Jokes aside, I think this legal status is modeled after that of an professor emeritus (at european universities) when a professor still keeps his earned title and privileges, but is honorably disbanded from his academic duties.
But as I said, I'm no expert in church law either.
It's from what I remember from when the last one resigned: That was such an unusual event that they had to find a new title for him. He is now "Papa emeritus", Which boild down to "a retired pope is still a pope".
Old programmers never die, they just become managers.
