Females are shite at Maths

[AutisticHedgehog]

According to a fucking hilarious Mumsnet cliche-meme on the FB feed.

FFS this is appalling. Why are Mumsnet of all places perpetuating the myth that girls can’t do maths.

I know plenty will say “lighten up, it’s harmless fun” but it’s not. It’s continual nonsense-shite that pervades and influences girls and their views that maths is a boys’ subject.

Maths is for everyone.

Shame on you MN.

WTF? Not on at all.....

To me it says more that parents can't always help with their child's maths not just women.

Sparkling no it doesn’t. It says “go and ask your father”

Is that off Mumsnet's own facebook feed, or is it something someone else mocked up? Bloody shocking if it's the former. (Said as a theoretical physicist, i.e. an applied applied mathematician...)

What a bizarre meme

Sparkling no it doesn’t. It says “go and ask your father”

To you maybe, but not to me.

Fermats I’m pretty sure it’s the real MN site. When I click this is where it goes to.

(And hello from a former experimental physicist - who still did a lot of maths - but not as much as you)

It's not open to interpretation sparkling it's in black and white

Oh come on. That's not what it was insinuating

@Sparklingbrook ...it literally says 'go and ask your father....'

FFS that is utterly appalling, who thought that was okay??
I'm the proud owner of both a maths degree and a vagina and this sort of crap really winds me up.

It really actually says it, Sparkling at the top.

It is totally open to interpretation. I have interpreted it.

Er what? Is this meant to be “relatable”?

Sparkling, it literally does say that

Sparking it does actually physically say that though. Saying it doesn't is like insisting that the sky is green.

It quite clearly says "Go and ask your father".

Fucksake. Who at Mumsnet thought that was OK to post.

They can fuck off. I'm female and I graduated top of my year in my oxbridge numerate degree.

And don't get me started on when people say "explain that in words your mother/grandmother would understand". Well then that's a PhD-holding CEO and a headteacher then?

"Go and ask your father."

Fuck sake. Only on Mumsnet would someone argue that "go and ask your father" didn't mean, to and ask your father.

Came on here to say YABVVVU - I am fabulous at maths, but now I see the issue. Shocking advert.

High fives AutisticHedgehog - physicists of the world unite. (Great username btw - I had a series of hedgehog related names a few name-changes back).

I definitely go with the majority interpretation here - it's a fucking sexist disgrace.

Thanks for calling me stupid. Nice.

I didn't notice the teeny tiny writing. Sorry about that.

I will leave you to it.

Ridiculous. I'm better at maths than DH. I'm also better at DIY, car maintenance and other 'go and ask your father' jobs.

Shit effort, Mumsnet.