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The European Commission’s latest ad to try to get more young women involved in science. It sparked an avalanche of criticism for stereotyping women, and appears to have since been removed from YouTube.

# posted June 25, 2012
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  3. the-ordinarium reblogged this from officialssay and added:
    THIS IS REAL? uuuuuuuuuugh for the human race
  4. humboldtoctober reblogged this from officialssay
  5. irrelevantexperimentation reblogged this from officialssay and added:
    wow.
  6. zakreblogsstuff reblogged this from officialssay and added:
    Oh, dear.
  7. anokarina reblogged this from officialssay and added:
    losing every day yay
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  12. telephonecigarettes reblogged this from officialssay and added:
    lol’ing so hard
  13. boundwithelectricaltape reblogged this from officialssay and added:
    Amazing, how incredibly patronising.
  14. heyitsmariel reblogged this from lexxars and added:
    hahaha this ad could have only been written by a man. No woman, even a stupid one, could have created something...
  15. serris reblogged this from officialssay and added:
    I don’t even know…
  16. lexxars reblogged this from officialssay and added:
    I don’t know whether...be disappointed…
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  19. diaryofamadblackman reblogged this from officialssay and added:
    … . Look, I’m all for...the sciences. I think that there truly is a lack
  20. anthlc reblogged this from officialssay
  21. ginnie-lee-r reblogged this from officialssay and added:
    Time to change majors.
  22. informme reblogged this from officialssay and added:
    Oh I’m sorry, I thought this was a commercial
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  25. only-slightly reblogged this from officialssay and added:
    Wowww.
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  28. starfishandmandarinduck reblogged this from officialssay and added:
    I seriously don’t know what...say…good or bad…
  29. shadesofbrixton reblogged this from officialssay and added:
    LOL WOW, EUROPEAN COMMISSION. Way...make a…glasses/sunglasses commercial?
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