Ice Princess soon to be released by those misogynist bastards at Disney

[IowaStatePhiPsi]

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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.

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.

[Kevin]

Originally posted by IowaStatePhiPsi
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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.

Is your sister friends with the President of Harvard?

[KSigkid]

You certainly have a way with thread titles.

[DeltAlum]

Originally posted by KSigkid
You certainly have a way with thread titles.

Yeah. Way over the top.

[WCUgirl]

Originally posted by KSigkid
You certainly have a way with thread titles.

It's still not as bad as Hoosier's.

[moe.ron]

Titles are cool.

[KSigkid]

Originally posted by AXiD670
It's still not as bad as Hoosier's.

I don't think we can start using the extreme as a point of comparison.

[Rudey]

Originally posted by AXiD670
It's still not as bad as Hoosier's.

Hoosier just wants to be funny.

-Rudey

[mmcat]

and the sad thing is that it sells

[GreenKappa]

yikes

i don't get this reaction to this movie at all when i see the previews and read reviews. its a movie first off. and its just supposed to be fun, lighthearted, girl follows dreams - mom learns to support her, finds out how she can beleive herself.

i have actually seen it - and while i can understand some of the points, they do not play out that way at all in the movie....don't rush to judge.

i had fun and so did the theater (heck - it was full of little girls and they loved it) kids are supposed to have dreams. i think its good.

[KillarneyRose]

C'mon now, it's a Disney movie! You shouldn't read so much into it. For the record, my younger sister, (i.e. the surgical resident aka "the sister who's doing something productive with her life", who is known to be pretty sharp in matters of math and physics) is planning to take my kids to see this movie this week.

Looks like harmless fun to me.