Archive for September 3rd, 2008

Great video, terrible commentary

September 3, 2008 - 3:04 pm 1 Comment

This video is making the rounds, and I think if I taught high school physics, I would be showing it to my class because, underneath the general humor they do a great job of explaining matter, anti-matter, and why gravity is weak.

That’s the good news. The bad news is, I found this on another site, with a brief accompanying paragraph asking the question, “how did those scientists guys convince that girl to be in *their* video?” She is the main character, the rapper - why isn’t the automatic assumption that this is her video, and she convinced the men to be in it? Why assume that men conceptualized, wrote and created the video, and then ‘convinced’ a woman to be be in it?