I wouldn't say you're wrong, but you're coming from a different angle. You're right with the basic problem: The pink craze. But the other one is bringing girls (back) into tech!

Yes. We're very far away from solving #1. Especially if, as stated in the article, a whole industry pushes FOR toy sex segregation. (NOT sex toy segregation.)

But while we're waiting for the toy industry to bring back a gender neutral toy segment, shouldn't we try to bring science toys into the girls department nevertheless? So at least this won't get even worse? And if that means case modding kits not only available in sci-fi-military style, but also in pink-unicorn-style... well, I don't care.

Of course teaching about Hedy Lamarr and Marie Curie and Emilia Earhart and Heidi Hetzer and Walentina Tereschkowa of course will help, too. And NOT in a special "Womans achievments that didn't made it into regular curriculum" class.

Aha.. so you're one of the men who are trying to hold back women from using their full potential!

Isn't it nice to have arguments ready that prove you're doing it wrong no matter what you do....

TFA actually explains why this isn't done anymore, but then decides to go on about the pink STEM toys instead of offering solutions to the actual problem: Increasing toy segregation in general.

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)

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.

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?

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.

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.