tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724594058209899258.post6478269803211353485..comments2024-03-14T03:43:02.583-04:00Comments on EPBOT: Too Pretty To Do Math?!Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11888187687405622408noreply@blogger.comBlogger191125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724594058209899258.post-87830310410208439442016-02-03T05:07:52.058-05:002016-02-03T05:07:52.058-05:00What a serious world we live in! Have none of you ...What a serious world we live in! Have none of you heard of banter? I would think that 99.9% of people wearing this would be doing it for tongue-in-cheek reasons. David & Goliath also do "boys are smelly, boys are stupid" and "boys are stupid, throw rocks at them" tshirts - do you seriously believe that this encourages girls to attack boys?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724594058209899258.post-23774046141780194652015-05-29T16:53:43.005-04:002015-05-29T16:53:43.005-04:00The birth mother of my 11-year-old stepdaughter bo...The birth mother of my 11-year-old stepdaughter bought her this t-shirt. I am APPAULED. What a GREAT message to send your daughter out into the world with. This is just a gateway t-shirt that leads to the "I plan on marrying rich" t-shirt she's apt to buy for her when she's 16.<br />If it ever makes its way to our house, it will be discarded immediately. <br />If I saw any kid on the street wearing a shirt with such an "it's ok to be dumb" message on it I would judge the parent who let her wear it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724594058209899258.post-67763306876507597042012-11-08T21:35:39.397-05:002012-11-08T21:35:39.397-05:00Jen, I saw a girl wearing a Angry Birds-themed shi...Jen, I saw a girl wearing a Angry Birds-themed shirt with the caption "I'm a bird brain" and I about collapsed right there in the grocery store. I hurt for her SO MUCH. I felt like she was wearing a "Kick Me" sign, only she paid for it.<br /><br />Haiku Joynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724594058209899258.post-73268669574746094782011-12-17T18:09:08.855-05:002011-12-17T18:09:08.855-05:00This shirt tries to cash in the 'nerd cred'...This shirt tries to cash in the 'nerd cred' school of humor, but fails miserably. There are plenty of other math-based humor t-shirts out there (I particularly like the 'get real/be rational' one), so there's no need to go w/ this one. It's not nerdy, it's low-brow.<br /><br />And low-brow humor is actually one of the most difficult types of comedy to pull off. It's too easy for it to devolve into stereotypes & bodily function gags. Now if that caption was under a picture of, say, Chuck Norris, then it might be funny. Might be. As it is, it's just another bad attempt at humor, which are a dime/dozen on the net.Some Old Nobodaddynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724594058209899258.post-7197841711055642612011-08-02T23:20:07.613-04:002011-08-02T23:20:07.613-04:00I actually have that t shirt.
I love it. I am a ...I actually have that t shirt. <br /><br />I love it. I am a terrible math student but excellent in English. I actually have a numbers dyslexia and I frequently write my 3s backwards like an E.<br /><br />I also think I'm quite pretty, so I just like to poke some fun at my learning disability while being a cocky little shit.Courtney Yakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09678341663744403842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724594058209899258.post-9630861296058203992011-06-29T20:43:54.221-04:002011-06-29T20:43:54.221-04:00I love all tees from mental floss. Because I'm...I love all tees from mental floss. Because I'm 12 and I love math. And funny tees.Hannahnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724594058209899258.post-59961306777830936212011-06-23T15:20:06.934-04:002011-06-23T15:20:06.934-04:00I didn't scour through the 180+ comments to se...I didn't scour through the 180+ comments to see if anyone recomended Toothpaste for dinner's t-shir site. Great online comic by the way<br />http://www.sharingmachine.com/allmerch.php?comic=tfd<br /><br />I got my mathmetician brother a shirt that said "if your not part of the solution your part of the precipitate"<br /><br />classicsarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01648053099818987194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724594058209899258.post-31029246347987086342011-06-16T17:25:56.211-04:002011-06-16T17:25:56.211-04:00I gotta say, as a Geeky male I find women of scien...I gotta say, as a Geeky male I find women of science far more attractive than a mindless pretty princess.<br /><br />Nothing "stirs my geek" (ew) more than being out-geeked or out-scienced by the opposite sex.<br /><br />Frankly, any drone vapid enough to wear a shirt like that wouldn't be worth the trouble to look at.<br /><br />Give me the girl wearing an equation shirt saying, "Even if my shirt is derivative, it's still functional."*<br /><br />*I saw this shirt at a Con and have never been able to find it for sale anywyere. It had a picture of a SIN/COS on it. I've always wished I'd have stopped the girl and asked her where she got it.TacoMagichttp://tacomagic.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724594058209899258.post-11603810541639427412011-06-10T00:24:45.036-04:002011-06-10T00:24:45.036-04:00Here is the antithesis to the "I'm too pr...Here is the <a href="http://www.mentalfloss.com/store/I-Heart-Math-T-shirt/" rel="nofollow">antithesis</a> to the "I'm too pretty..." t-shirt, also from Mental Floss. <br /><br />My literature side likes <a href="http://www.mentalfloss.com/store/Lady-Macbeth-T-shirt/" rel="nofollow">this shirt</a><br /><br />My science side likes <a href="http://www.mentalfloss.com/store/Mole-Problems-T-shirt/" rel="nofollow">this shirt</a><br /><br />Yet another shirt that I've seen that I loved was across the chest were five different types of dice, and underneath it said "Don't make me roll for initiative"SaraVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16392327546150818115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724594058209899258.post-38033508241386623202011-06-08T18:07:27.552-04:002011-06-08T18:07:27.552-04:00I'd be sad to see a young girl wear this shirt...I'd be sad to see a young girl wear this shirt, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't tempted to purchase one for my sister - a math professor at an Ivy League school. :)melydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06255399219907416923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724594058209899258.post-76303710663679219622011-06-08T03:33:43.676-04:002011-06-08T03:33:43.676-04:00I may not be the best at math, but that has nothin...I may not be the best at math, but that has nothing to do wih intellectual ability... Or looks, for that matter. No (future) child of mine will grow up to be so self depreciating. It's crude, offensive and makes me want to weep for future society.Ellen Timmermannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724594058209899258.post-45215151493521125502011-06-08T00:43:05.758-04:002011-06-08T00:43:05.758-04:00After we made a spelling error on our Top 5 Reason...After we made a spelling error on our Top 5 Reasons to Date an Engineer shirt, our SWE section made shirts that said <br />"I'm an enginere"<br />"I'm an enginire"<br />"I'm good at math"<br /><br />With the misspelled word "engineer" crossed out each time. <br /><br />Another of my SWEsters has a shirt that has a parabola and says "Math is more fun with curves" or something to that affect. <br /><br />I'm still rooting for a t-shirt that says, "I have an unhealthy attachment to my graphing calculator" <br /><br />All that being said, yes, I take offense at anything, whether it be a T-shirt, or a Barbie doll that tells girls that math is hard.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724594058209899258.post-19942954753547843632011-06-07T08:17:47.122-04:002011-06-07T08:17:47.122-04:00I would find the "too pretty to do math"...I would find the "too pretty to do math" Tshirt very funny if it were on someone who was obviously <b>Not</b> the "Barbie doll" type-- or someone that was Proudly and Obviously a Math Geek. Context adds humor.<br /><br />I'm particularly fond of the Tshirt we bought my rocket-scientist niece for Christmas: it says "With Enough Thrust, Pigs Fly Just Fine". :)Robynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06292980494849593680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724594058209899258.post-82820669641888426072011-06-07T02:10:22.716-04:002011-06-07T02:10:22.716-04:00Tweens and teens are pressed enough to fit anti-in...Tweens and teens are pressed enough to fit anti-intellectual stereotypes. Consider the mental mush that companies, singers, actors, reality TV stars, etc. present to kids as What All The Cool Kids Do. D&G deserves to end up with an unused warehouse of these.<br /><br /><br />Am I the only one here who *isn't* flipping out over "Math Is Hard"? Because you know- for most of us, male and female, it's not some degrading statement about gender inequity. It's just the truth. <br />I know plenty of men who loathe math as well. I don't know of a single little girl who was given one of the 'Teen Talk' Barbies that spoke that phrase who decided,<br />"Oh no, math is something I'm not supposed to be good at! I'd better give up on it right now!" <br />I would have found it nice that someone intelligent had trouble with the same thing I did, LOL.<br /><br />Then again, Barbie-bashing is one of those things that is all about personal motive and perception. The wide variety of settings and accessories, meant to let a child exercise her own vision of a dolly world, is instead spun as 'oh look at all the cr*p she has! She's _materialistic_!!And she's blonde, so she must be stupid!' etc. A lot of projection on something that's supposed to be a kid's companion in creating his/her own world, ne?<br />Come on, she had an *astronaut* outfit in 1965, and numerous professional and technical outfits since then. In 2011 there's a Software Engineer. Instead, it's easier to perpetuate the 'beautiful = stupid' stereotype- and to ignore that she's been many hair and skin colors over the years! (Now if you want to join me in complaining about the cheap and unattractive B.doll clothes currently made available, I'm with you. Ugh.)<br /><br />Anyway, we have a a popular culture that tells our kids that sleazy, gangsta and dumb is the way to be. That's *really* something to be concerned about when you see how many kids are buying into it, and how many parents either approve or just don't care. Let's make sure that the kids we know and love are given something a lot smarter and more positive than this.<br /><br />/long long rant over<br />//hands soapbox to next personcygirlkathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10184555135209584335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724594058209899258.post-18838791614205771252011-06-06T15:09:22.468-04:002011-06-06T15:09:22.468-04:00OK, so, I own this shirt, but I actually have a ba...OK, so, I own this shirt, but I actually have a backstory for it. <br /><br />I bought it in college, because I was a computer science major, and we shared a department with the math majors. See? I was in computer science, because I was too pretty to do math.<br /><br />I kept it because my math major husband went on to get his Ph.D., and we hung out with his classmates almost exclusively. It was my humorous way to keep people from asking me if I was in the math program/why I wasn't in the math program.<br /><br />I've stopped wearing it since then, though, since it's just insulting out of context.<br /><br />BTW, I've owned it for 5 or 6 years.Lori Rnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724594058209899258.post-77762075133625771762011-06-06T10:33:29.963-04:002011-06-06T10:33:29.963-04:00It gets under my skin every time I see shirts and ...It gets under my skin every time I see shirts and whatever like that. My other favourite was a shirt I saw in some tiny shop when I was up in Alaska that said "Home is where my husband is" and a male one that said "Home is where my wife is". <br /><br />I know its supposed to be cutesy or whatever but I found it rather ugh. I love my husband dearly, but he doesnt define my existence. <br /><br />As for my favourite shirt right now, it isn't a feministy or smart one, its a FCKH8.com shirt that says "Dont B H8N On The Homos" and another that says "Str8 against H8" because I'm a big gay rights person. =Dtrebshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12659371102247982049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724594058209899258.post-12447242634178058562011-06-06T03:30:59.373-04:002011-06-06T03:30:59.373-04:00MAybe you have allready seen but I just like it He...MAybe you have allready seen but I just like it <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/womens/d415/" rel="nofollow">Hello Schröddy</a>. Also a great answer to that "Hello Kitty" stuff that also reduces women and girls to persons who love pink and kittys and spends to much money for pink things with kittys on it.Sylviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12384079752295654751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724594058209899258.post-46902335574421209242011-06-05T21:57:56.577-04:002011-06-05T21:57:56.577-04:00I hate this t-shirt. I hate even more that I see...I hate this t-shirt. I hate even more that I see shirts like this in the girls' section. So far the worst I've seen is a hat that said "My boyfriend is away for the weekend" marketed to 7-14 year olds. I'm trying to raise a smart, aware girl, and the clothing gurus aren't helping by implying that she should be dumb and slutty to succeed.<br /><br />Luckily my daughter has discovered Snorgtees, and is now the proud owner of "Hedgehogs. Why can't they just share the hedge?" She also has a funky one that says "Come to the dark side. We have cupcakes."Tuesynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724594058209899258.post-44247530343758721072011-06-05T20:51:30.952-04:002011-06-05T20:51:30.952-04:00I think it's a terrible message if one chooses...I think it's a terrible message if one chooses to take it seriously (either the wearer OR the viewer). Do we think a lot of people would do that? When I first looked at it I assumed it was a joke.<br /><br />But then, I run on the worldview that the universe would be a better place if we all took fewer things seriously. :)Ariadnexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724594058209899258.post-46815014579367670392011-06-05T17:19:17.789-04:002011-06-05T17:19:17.789-04:00The shirt sort of feels like it can be degrading t...The shirt sort of feels like it can be degrading to women, but not really. I think it would be self-degrading if a young woman chose to wear it. She might as well wear a shirt that says "I'm an idiot."Pattihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15304481975396842711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724594058209899258.post-74953441952101143142011-06-05T16:28:12.378-04:002011-06-05T16:28:12.378-04:00I'm a female high school math teacher. The har...I'm a female high school math teacher. The hardest/most important part of my job is convincing students (unsurprisingly enough, mostly the girls) that they are indeed good at math and they can learn and they are smart. Most of my students have had a teacher or parent (or both) tell them that they are not good at math enough times that they started to believe it. I get very upset when I hear parents say to their student "well, I was never good at math, so you won't be either", or other comments along those lines. It takes months of constant reinforcement to remove the trauma that these "innocent" comments inflict on students.<br /><br />But, at the end of the day, it's worth it when you see a student that used to hide in the back of the classroom and avoid eye contact in the hopes of avoiding being called upon or learning switch to sitting in the front of the classroom and bouncing in their seat with excitement to answer math problems.<br /><br />I wish that our society would stop reinforcing the idea that math is hard and it's OK to believe that you are bad at math.Sarahttp://anelementallife.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724594058209899258.post-57836246095294197532011-06-05T10:57:59.655-04:002011-06-05T10:57:59.655-04:00It's better than the "trainee poledancer&...It's better than the "trainee poledancer" tshirt for pre-teens I have seen, but this is still on the continuum of sexism that got Katie bullied. <br /><br />My fav is the http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/womens/c3d2/ self-rescuing princess.Alicia Foodycathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11931796992646884249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724594058209899258.post-80681568054401695922011-06-05T08:16:24.987-04:002011-06-05T08:16:24.987-04:00I am weeping also! I'm studying psychology, an...I am weeping also! I'm studying psychology, and there IS a difference in ability in maths/sciences between men and women, but NOT due to gender differences! Stereotype threat - you believe you will be worse at something, so you don't try or don't practice it, means that you are worse because you aren't trying or practicing. So "joke" t-shirts like the too pretty one are reinforcing this. I hope noone buys it!Elnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724594058209899258.post-50513324706420624992011-06-04T23:59:53.694-04:002011-06-04T23:59:53.694-04:00I think it has possibilities. My aunt likes to ref...I think it has possibilities. My aunt likes to refer to herself as a dumb blonde, I think it would make a great gag gift for her.<br /><br />Sorry, no cute shirts to add.Princessnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724594058209899258.post-11882149820222530952011-06-04T13:30:14.134-04:002011-06-04T13:30:14.134-04:00Personally as a geek-girl who has always stuggled ...Personally as a geek-girl who has always stuggled with mathmatics and is always being told that I am too pretty to call myself a geek - yes I have not that I believe it, I might wear this more to make fun of my pathetic ability to always get 8x8 wrong and to fool people into thinking I am an idiot until I smack the upside the head with a brilliant argument in whatever debate we're having. If you actually believe the statement then you are already prejudiced and probably think that way anyways.Joellenoreply@blogger.com