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A study says straight women suck at reading maps -- at least that's what the headlines declare.
  • Tetris is the solution!

    I (straight female who adores her straight husband) am the navigator in our household. I find the alternate routes (by looking at a map!) when construction or accidents force us to find a Plan B. (Not that my husband is an idiot when it comes to maps: he can read them perfectly well, but why bother when I'm in the car?) And if I'm driving and he's navigating, he's been known to say "That's our exit" as we sail by it, in the left lane.

    I thank a middle-school obsession with Tetris for helping my poor female brain rotate objects in space. And I thank my Dad, who took me on many a college interview roadtrip all over New England, where I was the Navigator (his half-kidding reasoning: if I couldn't find a school, I couldn't apply.)