Comments on: It’s cool to be nerdy if you’re fashionable & hot

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By: Lauren

Lauren — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:36:09 +0000

I understand your concerns. What we are TRYING to do is show girls who won’t pursue science, technology, engineering and math because the stereotypes of females in the field do not match their self image, that you CAN be yourself while saving the world through mastering these disciplines. I know the messaging needs some work, but please know that we are coming from a good place. And that we love your outfit.

By: DNLee

DNLee — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:53:06 +0000

wow. I had no idea they were peddling this mess for a while.

By: Carin

Carin — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:29:51 +0000

I used to match my field gear with my earrings. No one ever noticed but me…and i felt very girly. Love the pic Miriam!!

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:51:03 +0000

p.s. on the nerd girls website it says ‘Nerd Girls is a growing movement by young women in the sci-tech fields to create a worldwide network and to offer support and encouragement so that more girls will study these subjects in school and enter into what have historically been male-dominated professions. An equally important part of the Nerd Girl mission is to dispel the myths and stereotypes about these fields and the women who choose to enter them.’

…what, by painting it over with a different stereotype? *snorts*

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:49:04 +0000

Here’s what I think is the key bit from the salon.com piece: ‘ideally, we’d convey to young women that they shouldn’t be afraid to be into science even if they aren’t holding down part-time modeling gigs, and that there’s more than one definition of what it means to be “hot.”‘

Sadly, nerd girls is saying to young women:
1. be hot
2. then be whatever you want to be! w00t! aren’t we doing chirpy cartwheels on the runway!

What if you’re not hot? Well, then I guess you can’t get away with also being a nerd.

By: Hisly

Hisly — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:52:16 +0000

I was all set to poo-poo and say that you’re being unfair, and then I went to their website. You are right on, and they totally suck. Hardly any of them are wearing glasses and there is a picture of the lab where ALL of them are wearing short skirts. Mmmm… plasma burn.

By: Miriam Goldstein

Miriam Goldstein — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:54:05 +0000

jebyrnes – Yes, it’ll be only the finest organic albatross poop. Poorer hipsters will have to settle for gull or cormorant.

eric – The cuteness, it burns!

By: eric

eric — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:46:10 +0000

er..that should be - cute.