Not so Phun

Z. has to decide what her A Levels are going to be.  Here Physics teacher seems to think that she should try to take Physics alongside with Maths – especially because she is a girl – and handed her a leaflet “Physics is Fun” featuring a “fun loving” blonde writing convoluted formulas on a blackboard.

Hm.

What’s worrying is not only the haha connotation of blonde and “Fun” - which clearly has grown a bit moldy over time – nor the peculiarly odd way in which this seventeen year old adolescent girls is reduced to paddy-cake calibre nincompoop…

What really worries me is that it matters whether girls like Physics or not.   

And unless at my next PT meeting I will be handed a foldout entitled “Social Careers are Hip” brandishing a football jock in warrior pose, I am wondering whether people will ever understand that intelligence actually means to think creatively for yourself and not just to follow others.   

In fact I think that is is preferable to have different interests from men.  The problem is in the disadvantages that go along with that.  

Now there is a problem that awaits solving and me think its not Physics that's gonna do it.