Ten Unscientific and Sexist Reasons Women Can’t Drive


As someone who is often called an aggressive driver, I take personal offense to this stupid piece via Yahoo News Canada in the “car research” section listing 10 inarticulate and sexist reasons women supposedly can’t drive. The piece is from Askmen.com, which means it is actually not humor, even if to us that website is hilarious since it is drenched in the cowardly spirit of men that are afraid of vagina.
One of the reasons women can’t drive,

No.4 – They have no interest in cars
Another reason women can’t drive is a matter of interest — or rather, a lack thereof. You can’t do well at something when your give-a-damn meter reads zero point zero. Women have no interest in cars beyond them serving as appliances of transport. As long as it starts, all is well. So when dash lights flash, components make ugly sounds or smoke appears, it may or may not resonate with the female driver that these are less than ideal operating characteristics.

Right, just like women don’t like trains, airplanes, computers and any other modern technological marvel that helps us get somewhere.
Joking aside, I do think there is something to be said about women feeling secure in their driving abilities, since they are told that they are bad drivers and that driving is a manly thing to do. One of the first things you internalize when coming of age as a teenager is that women (along with some ethnic groups) are not good drivers.
Before we start the convo with, “but women really don’t have depth perception” I know some really really good female drivers that are aggressive, confident and rarely if ever get lost or in accidents. So, based on my own empirical evidence and recognition of the sexist expectation that women aren’t as good of drivers, I call bullshit on the premise of this article. Shame on Yahoo Canada for running such a sexist piece of crap.

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