Comments on: The Dangerous Book for Boys — a preliminary report http://andstillipersist.com/2007/06/the-dangerous-book-for-boys-a-preliminary-report/ Thu, 03 May 2012 18:07:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: a person http://andstillipersist.com/2007/06/the-dangerous-book-for-boys-a-preliminary-report/comment-page-1/#comment-140 a person Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:25:07 +0000 http://and-still-I-persist.com/?p=281#comment-140 Quote: My sister Lorraine and I both got a lot of mileage out of the set, mostly doing random mixings and heatings in an effort to get an interesting reaction. (She once got the bottom of a test tube to explode, though in a relatively mild fashion; I was jealous.) ----- "Another satisfied customer" needs to read that excerpt from your post. I also had a chemistry set as a child and loved to blow things up with the best of them. I am a woman. This is a day and an age when women can speak and think for themselves. We are becoming better educated with more opportunities. But we STILL have (what sometimes seems to be) insurmountable prejudices. Stupid, thoughtless comments made by fools do not help your daughters, sisters, mothers, and wives to get their due for their hard work. Please, "customer", if you read this blog, STOP persisting with outdated sexism. It helps no-one, least of which we women trying to deal with dinosaurs. I have a warrior spirit as strong as any man. Quote:
My sister Lorraine and I both got a lot of mileage out of the set, mostly doing random mixings and heatings in an effort to get an interesting reaction. (She once got the bottom of a test tube to explode, though in a relatively mild fashion; I was jealous.)
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“Another satisfied customer” needs to read that excerpt from your post.
I also had a chemistry set as a child and loved to blow things up with the best of them.
I am a woman.

This is a day and an age when women can speak and think for themselves. We are becoming better educated with more opportunities. But we STILL have (what sometimes seems to be) insurmountable prejudices. Stupid, thoughtless comments made by fools do not help your daughters, sisters, mothers, and wives to get their due for their hard work.

Please, “customer”, if you read this blog, STOP persisting with outdated sexism. It helps no-one, least of which we women trying to deal with dinosaurs. I have a warrior spirit as strong as any man.

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