Is this video condescending to women?

After a barrage of criticism online, the European Commission pulled a YouTube video that seeks to persuade young girls to enter the sciences.

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The video, which was uploaded to YouTube last Friday, shows three fashionably dressed young women laughing and blowing kisses in a faux science lab. The European Commission said it had to “speak their [women’s] language to get their attention.”

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