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- From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Mattel on women
- Message-ID: <zlsiida.208@fs1.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 8 Oct 92 13:46:36 GMT
- References: <267843@peregrine.peregrine.com> <stone.718289960@cwis> <1992Oct5.144529.26085@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> <1992Oct5.165907.16276@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Oct5.192433.10231@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> <1992Oct6.224326.3834@lmpsbbs.comm.motOrganization
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- In article <1aut2kINNenu@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cxm7@po.CWRU.Edu (Colin Mclarty) writes:
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- > I did help a girl get through third through fifth grade
- >math. She told me that addition facts are hard when you have to
- >carry. Now, I could have said "no they aren't" and then she could
- >could have chosen among three possiblities: she was stupid, I was
- >lying, I didn't know what I was talking about. What I did say was
- >"yeah, but you can do hard things" and by the time we got to
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- And if the doll said this there wouldn't be a problem. The way the language
- works, if the statement 'math class is hard' stands alone with no other
- support either way, girls WILL take it to mean 'too hard for me'. Maybe not
- all girls, but enough to make this doll a Bad Thing (TM).
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-
- Have another day [Armageddon, the musical]
- Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England (44|0)61-275-6033
-