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Winnie Wrote a Math Book
SoyChemist writes "Hollywood is not known for providing a wealth of positive female role models. Danica McKellar, the actress that played Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years and Elsie Snuffin on The West Wing, has written a math book for teenage girls. 'Math Doesn't Suck' is done in the style of a teen magazine. It even includes a horoscope, cute doodles of shoes and jewelry, and testimonials from attractive young career women that use math at work. It focuses on fractions and pre-algebra and uses mnemonics like calling a reciprocal a 'refliprocal', because you just take the fraction and flip it upside down. Wired interviewed McKellar about the new book and her crusade to eliminate the achievement gap between boys and girls in math courses. McKellar graduated Summa Cum Laude from UCLA. While studying there, she co-authored a proof and presented it at a conference. After she and Mayim Bialik — star of Blossom and a PhD in neuroscience — appeared in a 20/20 episode about intellectual actresses, several literary agents came knocking on her door."
Wow, your humor is amazingly topical! Do you take requests? Do a joke about that Taco Bell dog!
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Good point...they should just stop trying.
Why you haven't been labeled a troll, I don't understand. Please explain to be why pointing out the underlying problem, and suggesting that this solution doesn't solve the underlying problem is saying "they should just stop trying".
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the replies in this mess should go far to ensuring this place remains a "SAUSAGE FEST" jeezous...amazing how people might have reached the conclusion that people on ./ don't evar evar get laid.
actually I am happy to see you, however that is in fact a banana in my pocket.
Gender inequality in favor of females is the feminists' way of getting reparations for past wrong-doings to females the same way that the black community has. Or, rather, it's gender-based affirmative action in one of its most 'glistening' moments. They want boys to turn into illiterate, ignorant, sissy neo-men that can barely take care of themselves, much less anyone else. If you don't believe that, go watch any feminist demonstration in the streets and listen to the words they use.
Now, watch all the pseudo-intellectual, left-wing nuts start to gang up on me and lambaste me for pointing out the obvious.
Actually, you have to treat the devious wenches as lawsuit bait from the moment they set foot in your department. You never socialize with them after work, you never touch them or even look at them for longer than absolutely necessary, you never be alone with one in a room with a closed door. You NEVER NEVER NEVER go with a woman on a business trip unless you're on separate flights and stay in separate hotels, and even then you're taking a chance that she's not a lying thieving gold digger. It's best never even to speak to them unless required to do so by your job description.
Any guy who doesn't follow this advice is begging to be raped by the matriarchy and their filthy trial-lawyer myrmidons.
-ccm
Too much Law; not enough Order.