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Trong garnered more attention than she ever could have in a skimpy outfit. Who from? Skimpy-outfitted girls who couldn't get enough of the daredevil wearing a rabbit suit.

Girls like Trong, who have the ability to laugh with raunch culture while defying its stereotypes, don't exist in "Female Chauvinist Pigs."

But they do in real life. That's the beauty of living in a world that offers women an array of options, from the costume store to the underwear department, from television programs to feminist philosophies.

A culture of sex doesn't have to be accepted in its entirety or not at all. Women can partake in what they like and ignore what they don't. They can wear a French maid女仆 — a woman servant outfit one Halloween and a rabbit suit the next. They can get comfortable in a culture of sex because they can handle it.

ABC's Yvonne Lai contributed to this piece.

Women have what it takes to be Engineers and Scientists (Gender gap has to do with discrimination and not intellectual incapability)

BRIELLE SCHAEFFER

STAFF WRITER

September 20, 2006

A panel by the National Academy of Sciences examined a gender gap in the science and engineering. The report, “Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering” was released at the Sept. 18 panel. According to the report, women are held back in these areas because of sexual discrimination, and not because of their intellectual incapability. Surprise, surprise.