Great video, terrible commentary
September 3, 2008 - 3:04 pm
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?
September 4th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Is that girl pretty enough to be in a video? :)
For real, I was forwarded this via an email that explained that it was a video on which real physicists and a girl rap about science. Real Physicists….AND A GIRL. Not, ” a group of physicists” or even a group of “nerds”. Real Physicists….AND A GIRL. I am glad to see you posted this in the gender context it seems to amplify.