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Guest: Sonja Bernhardt, creator of the controversial Screen Goddess IT Calendar.

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One of Sonja’s Glamour Geeks?sends the scallywags scurrying.?Here’s one of the images from the Screen Goddess IT Calendar. The model is a real live IT industry woman! Fearless and fun-loving! 🙂

Here’s an item from Inventions.org’s?Female Inventors section:

“Any girl can be glamorous,” Hedy Lamarr once said. “All she has to do is stand still and look stupid.”?

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The film star belied her own apothegm by hiding a brilliant, inventive mind beneath her photogenic exterior.

In 1942, at the height of her Hollywood career, she patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was two decades ahead of its time.

The glamorous -?in a definitely NOT stupid looking way – Heddy Lamarr is one of the women who inspired Sonja Bernhardt’s project.

And here’s another woman who inspired it.

Not really an actor but a novelist and philosopher – and screenwriter – by the name of Ayn Rand – the arch defender of Capitalist Ideals.

Here’s what our guest, Sonja Bernhardt, writes about Ayn Rand writing about Marilyn Monroe.

On one of the most famous Screen Goddesses of them all, female novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand wrote that Marilyn Monroe projected “the joyous self-flaunting of a child or a kitten who is happy to display its own attractiveness as the best gift it can offer the world and who expects to be admired for it, not hurt.”

In this interview PRODOS?Worldwide speak with Sonja Bernhardt, an IT – information technology – professional, and the creator of the Screen Goddess IT Calendar – which features real life female IT professionals – posing for what is definitely not your usual girlie calendar.

Nor?is it your usual, drab, ethereal way of promoting the Land of Geeks and Nerds.

Her new calendar has caused a stir across the fuddy-duddy IT industry.

She’s a bad girl, but I like her. And I think you will too!

Topics covered include …

Some of the fuddy-duddy responses Sonja has gotten?about?her Screen Goddess IT Calendar.?(Here’s one. Here’s another. And another!)

Are the fuddy-duddy comments mostly coming from the general public or the commentariat?? What did PRODOS discover about the “Tall Poppy Syndrome”?

How has the calendar been misrepresented by the media? What is the serious reason behind the calendar, and why was the movie theme chosen??How difficult was it to find enough women employed in IT to pose for the calendar?

Why is the calendar a 15-month calendar? Having fun while making a difference.?Is there something wrong with admiring beauty?? What’s “naughty” about this calendar??Geeking oneself down.

The financial objective of the calendar.?The bland corporate and academic sectors.?The beauty of simplicity and elegance. What makes a woman glamorous??How did Sondra incorporate her admiration for Ayn Rand into the calendar?

The multi-levels of the calendar. Sexiness. The disingenuousness of “political correctness”?.?Future IT calendars. Portraying women as “integrated people”??Pride.

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You can find out more about Sonja Bernhardt and her smart, sexy, fun calendar at: ITGODDESS.INFO

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