http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/...C-RSSFeeds0312
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Trachtenberg plays Casey Carlyle, a science prodigy on track to achieve the goal she and her strong-willed single mom (Joan Cusack) have had in sight for years: A physics scholarship and admission to Harvard.
A skater with experience only on the pond behind her house, Casey enters a beginner's class to get some first-person experience for a science project on the physics of skating.
Casey finds her inner Dorothy Hamill and soon is twirling doubles and triples, catching the eye of coach Tina Harwood (Kim Cattrall), who's training her daughter, Gen (Hayden Panettiere), to become a skating champ.
Casey's training is handled so superficially, the message sent is that rather than hard work, all you need to achieve your dreams are a couple of quick musical montages.
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And the reply by my sister (software engineer, aged 30):
...except she doesn't acheive her dream. She shelves physics for the standard pink little girl ballerina/figure skater dream.
Why would any woman want to do math when you can dance around in a little skirt and people throw flowers at you? Why would anyone spend the money to take their preteen girl to a movie where the main character wants to do hard science? If she likes physics, no one will want to marry her! Might as well just have left her on the rocky shoals at birth.
While I accept that the average math/logic abilities of women is below the average for men, I'm still disgusted at the subtle and continuous ways society continues to preach to girls--even girls of above average ability--that it's better to avoid science altogether.
Unless you want to be a pediatrician; they're sorta maternal figures.
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