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How can this even be a thing? Outraged

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Twink · 02/02/2016 09:01

As an engineer turned physics and maths teacher, I'm furious about this. I work really hard to encourage students with low self confidence to believe in themselves, then shit like this appears!

How can this even be a thing? Outraged
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Twink · 02/02/2016 10:04

They've taken it off their website 😀

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StitchesInTime · 02/02/2016 09:39

We had a David and Goliath poster in our uni digs. It said "Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them"

They do that as a phone sock too. There's another one you can buy that says "Boys are smelly".

Silly gender stereotypes all over the place is definitely something they seem to think acceptable.

MrNoseybonk · 02/02/2016 09:31

If I can remember my schooldays, top of the class in maths and science was nearly always girls.

thatstoast · 02/02/2016 09:27

We had a David and Goliath poster in our uni digs. It said "Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them". Silly gender stereotypes obviously aren't a new direction for the company.

BarbarianMum · 02/02/2016 09:27

It worries me less that people make this shit (although I don't like it either) but that people actually think this way and buy it. I mean, you'd hope everyone would take one look and pass straight by in disgust.

I wonder what the boy's version would look like? "I'm too cool to write" maybe? My dc school is certainly convinced all boys hate English and reading.

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Twink · 02/02/2016 09:17

Thanks for the link PurpleDaisies, I missed it yesterday (off sick & was feeling too rough to MN!)

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FreshwaterSelkie · 02/02/2016 09:09

Just horrid. It does seem like we're going backwards sometimes, doesn't it?

stumblymonkey · 02/02/2016 09:06

I'm going to complain. Fuming that their product/marketing team can remotely think this is a suitable message....

honeysucklejasmine · 02/02/2016 09:04

But, but... Numbers are super hard! And gross and icky. Definitely a boy thing.

(I'm a science teacher. This sort of attitude is the bane of my life.)

EBearhug · 02/02/2016 09:04

I'm shocked, too. I can't see the site from the image (am on my phone), but I am tempted to complain.