Some people appear to have a problem with this pretty little video propagating science and showing how chemistry and product design have a large significance for women, hence also giving the message that science is sexy and attractive and that women can be sexy *and* smart. Those people have a problem because apparently it sends the message that chemistry and biochemistry are all women are able to do and that is the most they can achieve. Or that all women are… chicks. I don’t get that.
What I do have a problem with, is the real message. ‘Science: It’s a girl thing’? Since when is that true? Science is a predominantly male subject. Sure, there are a few women who have also found the charm of astrophysics or, well, chemistry or something like that. But most scientists are still men. Sure, that is what EC is trying to remedy but dubbing science as a *girl* thing is just wrong. On more than the sexist level.
When you talk about scientists, you hardly mean boys and girls. You mean men and women. Product design and innovation takes more education and seriousness a child, boy or girl, would typically have. Thus calling ‘science’ a ‘girl thing’ in a video with, well, not really girls anymore, appears awkward. I don’t care whether you call them ladies or women, but girls is just not right.
In conclusion, whatever the EC meant or did, science is not a ‘girl’ thing. Not just because men can do science as well but also because ‘girl’ is too childish in my always humble opinion. Science is unisex.
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