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Old 26-July-2008, 07:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Kaptain K View Post
When I was in high school, it wasn't so much that girls couldn't do math. They were actively discouraged from studying math and science as not being feminine. Those who bucked the system were almost always near the top of the class!
You know- since when do teenage girls NOT buck the system?
Tell them to do this- and they do that. Tell them not to do that- they do this anyway...

You make it sound like a bunch of does willingly do as their told. By their Mothers and Peers I might add?

If teenage girls don't do math, it's because they don't WANT to do math.
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