If 3 Little Girls Did This To My House, I'd Do Everything I Could To Get Them Full Rides To Harvard

[seabeyond]

[NYC_SKP]

1. Awsome! Lyrics here:

Music: PicoSound Animation by: Ed Skudder & Lynn Wang Special thanks to GitHub Studios

Girls. You think you know what we want, girls.
Pink and pretty it's girls.
Just like the 50's it's girls.
You like to buy us pink toys and everything else is for boys and you can always get us dolls and we'll grow up like them... false.
It's time to change. We deserve to see a range. 'Cause all our toys look just the same and we would like to use our brains. We are all more than princess maids.

Girls to build the spaceship, Girls to code the new app,
Girls to grow up knowing they can engineer that.
Girls. That's all we really need is Girls. To bring us up to speed it's Girls.
Our opportunity is Girls. Don't underestimate Girls.

http://www.goldieblox.com/

[seabeyond]

3. thank you so much for putting up the lyrics. i can rarely heard the words, just beat.

i am sending this to my niece and her little .... girl. lol

and the lyrics. thanks.

[ismnotwasm]

2. How cool

Stealing..

[seabeyond]

4. me, too. i am stealing to put on FB. lol. nt

[Gothmog]

5. That was great

Thanks for sharing

[penultimate]

6. I think that channel changer was a tad bit over engineered... just saying..

Cool video.

[seabeyond]

17. i think much of it was. and who cares. nt

[tech3149]

7. Thank You!

I learned before I was 10 to NEVER underestimate girls. It's not only painful, it's a waste.

[ismnotwasm]

8. Heh!

[Demeter]

9. That I should live so long to see this!

Welcome to my future sister engineers! From me BSEE 1976 and my sister BSCE(Paper) 1979

BTW, I HATE pink. Comes from living in a pink bedroom for 9 years....

[seabeyond]

18. hugzzz. good for you. pink looks good on me with my coloring, lol

and i hear ya.

[llmart]

10. You know what I think?

They can stop with the princess crap. I'm so sick of it - parents buying their little girls clothes with "princess" on it. Yuck.

My daughter is 38 now but I got her a doll for Christmas one year when she was about 4 and it didn't get played with very much. However, she was outside all the time collecting acorns for the squirrels, filling the pockets of her jacket with dirt, and generally getting dirty, aka "having fun".

In the 1950's I was the biggest "tomboy" (not sure I like that term, but that's what I was called), always trying to keep up with my three brothers.

I worked at a law school where more than 50% of the graduates were women.

[seabeyond]

19. point. i played school teacher with the dolls. they HAD to learn, be well behaved and respectful

to the teacher. lol

and ya. outside.

my nieces. one out of four was a girly girl. the other three were outside playing with sons.

i wouldnt have it any other way

so damn tired of the conditioned roles to make us less.

[sheshe2]

11. I love it!

Thanks, seabeyond~

[seabeyond]

20. you are welcome sheshe. nt

[progressoid]

12. Or MiT or RISD or

anywhere!

[ancianita]

13. Awesome post! Thanks!

[RC]

14. I sent the URL to my post graduate engineer daughter, who is working on her degree.

Her most favorite toy as a child was a set of Lincoln Logs.

[seabeyond]

21. ha. the best. and i sent it to my "princess" niece, lol. and told her mom

to be sure to type out on my fb page that i linked it to, all the reasons the niece likes the video. i cannot wait to hear what this 6 yr old says. she has grown so much since about three and me saying.... eeeeew, princess. lol

[ReRe]

15. K&R

Girls! Reminds me of my great nephew at school one day on the playground. Boys were bragging on their grandma's. "Yeah but, my grandma is a _____." When it come great nephews turn, with a big confident grin from ear to ear... "Yeah, but my Grandma is a rocket scientist!" And it was the truth! Times, they-are-a-changing, girls.

[seabeyond]

22. ahhh. that is a great story to repeatedly be told. nt

[ReRe]

25. I love that story...

because it's true. Little sis is an aerospace engineer and is talented in so many other ways. I'm so proud of her.

[seabeyond]

26. that is cool. statistics took me out. lol. nt

[ReRe]

27. It takes all kinds

I never was good at calculating statistics either. But I have a great interest and appreciation in thier results!

[seabeyond]

28. yes. you. right on. and yes. we all have our role/place. nt

[AtheistCrusader]

16. Harvard? I'd be saving up for MIT

[seabeyond]

23. true that. nt

[SheilaT]

24. Wait. This is just to sell a toy tool kit marketed specifically at girls.

Not to mention these girls did not do all that rube goldberg stuff by themselves.

I've got a better idea, if you're the parent of a girl. Turn off the girlie TV shows. Do not buy them magazines for girls. Buy them the regular building toys that are mostly bought for boys. Send them to summer camps that involve doing things of many different sorts, but are not just girlie things.

Read to them from books about science and nature when they are very young, and buy them more of the same as they get older. Don't ever suggest to them that they can't do math and science.

Of course, if your girl is a talented ballerina, do encourage her in what she's best at.

[ismnotwasm]

30. Which is a interesting point

But even more interesting is that anybody made this at all.

[SheilaT]

31. All anyone seems to have seen that

supposedly these girls did a cool boy-type, engineering sort of thing. But it takes less than 10 seconds of thought to realize these girls would not have been able to do that by themselves. And it's the tool kit for girls that I actually find offensive.

I'd rather a video that shows some girl pushing aside her brother and playing with his construction set. Okay, so I shouldn't encourage the implicit bullying, but still.

I'm still annoyed that when I was a little girl in the 1950's I was not allowed to play with my brothers' Erector Set.

[ismnotwasm]

33. Heh!

Ok.

[seabeyond]

36. i think we all about know that. and. who cares. not the point. nt

[SheilaT]

49. Then what is the point?

It really is a patronizing ad. Even if they had pretended the girls had done it themselves by not showing us the behind the scenes stuff, in the end there is a "separate but equal" aspect that really bothers me.

It is up to parents to ignore the princess bullshit and raise their girls to be people, not just princess girls. You simply don't have to buy any of that crap.

[seabeyond]

52. i know what it is up to the parents to do. and yes, i think this is a good song for our girls to

hear.

[MadrasT]

39. "And it's the tool kit for girls that I actually find offensive."

I am right there on the same page. I don't know why we have to make stuff into something society perceives as "girly" to make it OK for girls to use it.

[llmart]

46. Oh, Sheila T........

you and I would get along famously Every time I read your posts I think "Hmmm....if she lived closer I'd probably want to be her friend."

[SheilaT]

54. Thank you. What a nice thing to say.

If you're ever going to be in Santa Fe, give me a holler.

[One_Life_To_Give]

47. Stanford Mech Eng

CEO is listed as having her Mechanical Engineering degree from Stanford. And the toys represent what she wishes she had when growing up.

I am biased in that the Erector set was my favorite. But I don't think there is only one way to ignite a child's interest in Engineering.

[SheilaT]

50. She didn't need a special tool kit for girls.

She could have used the ones made for boys, or played with the Erector set and so on.

This just makes the ghetto that much more acceptable. "Oh, yes, girls can do these things. Let's give them their very own tool set!"

[seabeyond]

51. ok. agreed. still like the song... nt

[Stuckinthebush]

53. Bingo

Sheila - you are correct with your critical look at this advertisement. Good eye.

It is a very good message that needs to be reiterated, however.

[ErikJ]

29. Just like the Affordable Care Act

A Rube Goldberg health care system. Single Payer NOW!

[tblue]

32. Where I live the girls are in control. I worry about the boys.

Those pink tea-set stereotypes don't fit. Girls here wouldn't even recognize them. The young women I know are not intimidated by anything or anybody. They are fiercely competitive scholars and they win regional and national academic honors. It's now a fact that more girls in the US go to college and get higher degrees. Generally, girls tend to exhibit the traits of an 'ideal student,' and that serves them well. (I teach, and there IS a gender difference.) So sometimes I worry about boys, especially when it's assumed they don't need attention and encouragement. A lot of boys, especially in poorer communities, really do, though they have a harder time seeking help, and there aren't many institutions making sure boys get what they need.

In my family we girls were pushed to go to college while my brother was not. It was assumed women needed the education to get a decent paying job, but a man could get by without it. It wasn't fair on my dad's part and it has made a glaring difference in all of our lives. This was typical of black families back in the day. I do think the needs of young men are recognized more these days, thank goodness. I'm all for helping girls succeed, but our young men need us too. One gender is not better or more important than another. Gender pride is great but you don't see boys doing videos saying how wonderful we boys are (implying you're not).

[ismnotwasm]

34. That's an entirely different topic, but one that needs to be discussed

Young men, for a variety of reasons are either not going or failing in college.

http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2013/03/27/college-graduation-gender-salaries/

For the black communities, it's even more complicated and a larger conversation--but still something that needs to be discussed and problem solved.

http://www.jbhe.com/features/50_blackstudent_gradrates.html

[seabeyond]

38. you do not know how much i have faced, boys will be boys, addressing any academic issue

my boys had in school.

at first i gently guided teaches to have a higher expectation of my boys. by fourth grade i was DEMANDING that they have a higher expectation with the explanation that if they had a higher expectation, they would meet it. or at least get closer to it than with excuses of .... boys will be boys.

[ismnotwasm]

40. Boy will be MEN

And men deserve to go through life without heterosexist masculinities to impede their success. Good job Mom!

[seabeyond]

42. damn straight. and they know that too. they know at 2, 8, 15, they are not men. they are boys.

and in this journey, THEY get to figure out what being a man is.

yup

boy will BE men

[GeoWilliam750]

41. I worry very much about the decline of young men

And the articles you reference are interesting indeed.

At this point, I can only speculate about the reasons that young men have so lost focus, but would wonder about some combination of video games, violent TV with images that change every one or two seconds, porn, overly intense expectations from parents (that can never be met) leading to burnout, poor socialisation, and a host of other things.

Lots more thought on this, but must run.

[seabeyond]

43. ooops, lol. do nOT read my post about demanding higher expectations. lol

i jest. cause though i am demanding, i am also accepting. my oldest says i am the toughest of tough as a parent in some things and the easiest damn parent in others.

balance.

[seabeyond]

44. btw, i agree with you. all those factors. and others. economic environment is one. what i found

in middle school and a little younger, until about junior in high school, there was such peer pressure to being stupid. my boys fought that regularly. not other kids, but that expectation and mentality.

[ismnotwasm]

45. Ok

Thanks for your input

[seabeyond]

37. two boys. one in college, one highschool. poppy cock. put the onus on the parents. nt

[GeoWilliam750]

35. Love it!!

[indepat]

48. With four ggrand-daughters approaching these ages, I'm in awe and relish their

antics, energy, and ingenuity.

[yuiyoshida]

55. kawaiiiiii ne!

sugoii