Letters to the Editor
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Men really are that simple
i agree that this is a clumsy metaphor, but women should not kid themselves---just about everything men do (up until age 50 or so) is in furtherance of the goal of getting laid.
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Dontcha just love it?
I'm constantly amazed how people generalize about one sex or the other. Young women think a Ferrari is sexy? I never did. I thought Ferraris and other such cars were just penis-mobiles that were driven to show off or hide an insecurity. I would actually be turned OFF by someone with a car like that. Aside from a few spoiled rich girls, I can't imagine who else would mistake that kind of conspicuous consumption as indicating anything valuable in terms of predicting a suitable mate. A guy driving a car like that to attract young women is just gonna trade his middle-aged wife in for a new model just like his car.
But it's so typical to blame women for men's excesses, because everyone KNOWS they only do those things because WE MAKE THEM.
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Huh?
"Sir David King says women interested in reducing global warming should stop checking out men in Ferraris."
Uh, I doubt very seriously that any women who IS interested in reducing global warming would be caught dead with a guy who owns a Ferrari. Nothing makes my little green heart go all a-flutter like a man driving hybrid - or even better - riding a bike.
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Ferraris?
Maybe he could leave off attacking the relatively few number of Ferrari drivers on the road and join the dogpile on the drivers of all those roadhogging, visibility-reducing, smog-spewing urban tanks a lot of these women (and men) are tooling around in? Or maybe those haven't become such a scourge in Britain yet.
This is like blaming fois gras for the obesity epidemic.
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An example of dry Brit wit?
Perhaps he was simply trying to be funny.
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Foie gras, pardon my typo
Still no edit feature in here, eh?
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Got it
A young woman's inquiry about what she could do about global climate change elicited a flip response about, yes, what she could do. It is only Broadsheet's tribal logic that characterizes this exchange as blaming the woman, and by extension all women, for planetary destruction. If a young man had asked, he'd be advised not to purchase the Ferrari. This was a suggestion to an individual according to her stereotype, not a comprehensive ranking of causes and responses.
Far from blaming her for climate change, King politely and improperly gave this woman a free pass, as an influencer of men rather than a prime actor.
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Oh. Please.
Just, Please.
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Why is the Honest Truth so Offensive?
At the very least it suggests that a macho proclivity for overconsumption can somehow be traced to women's appreciation of such things.
Macho-ness and consumption are only tangentially related. Lots of things macho guys do can be argued to be less wasteful of energy too.
I know, there's nothing like inflammatory rhetoric to get one's point across.
Since when is speaking truth inflammatory unless some people do not want to hear truth?
As someone else said, men do everything they have to do to get attractive women to pay attention to them, not to get feminists to pay attention to them, but attractive women.
If women did not constantly choose certain men with certain traits doing certain things, that game would change very quickly.
The problem is women do not want to lift a finger to change anything in their lives, not their choices in their own lives and not their choices in men.
They like certain things in their men and nothing will stop this.
So THE DESIRABLE FEMALES (the ones the most guys tend to lust for) tend to choose certain types of men doing certain things. All other men then imitate as faithfully as they can the behavior and habits of those men who the women already selected.
What part of science and logic and statistics and psychology do women not understand about all of this?
Look around Texas, Hummer and big pickup driving clods ALWAYS have the hot woman in the passenger seat.
What part of REALITY do women refuse to understand? I know, I know, women are supposed to be portrayed as professional victims at all times. Life is supposed to be about blaming men for everything. I am sure someone can make an argument that women spending too much money on useless wasteful things is ALSO somehow men's fault.
To be fair, married men and others not seeking approval from the opposite sex certainly have less incentive to do or act a certain way, so they are also to blame for excess energy use.
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Dear Troll....
Are you serious? I hope it was a joke, because otherwise I will have the heebie jeebies all day due to the muck you wrote...
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so brightstar
Pretty much what the Anonymous with all the caps said, huh?
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Lola
Save your heebie-jeebies for Brightstar and his boosters. They actually believe that stuff.
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I've had it wrong all this time.
Here I thought I was turning my girlfriend on by doing silly things like taking romantic walks with her and going to concerts with her and telling her how beautiful and amazing she is!
All this time I should have just been driving around in an expensive sports car.
There is something going on with those (what did one LW call them... penis-mobiles?), but it has nothing to do with women. Men (at least some of them) just like to compete with themselves, whether or not they are married and not in the market for impressing women. Every woman I've ever met is more likely to roll her eyes at a "hot" car cruising down the street than get all hot and bothered. Conversely, the only guys I've ever known who love expensive cars get more turned on by listing their vehicle's stats than thinking about the girls their car could get them.
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Yep what he said!
I have seen my fair share of hot cars with midlife crisis men sitting inside, it's depressing. I litterally feel sad for those guys and wave and smile because that is after all what they are looking for, a little attention.
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Umm, so it's my fault that some loser buys a Ferrari to "impress chicks"?
Personally, I'm more turned on by men who ride bicycles. Or walk. But of course, if some loser buys a Ferrari to "get the chicks", it's automatically my fault - for existing, I suppose, since I have never in my life told a man I expected him to drive a fancy car. Or any kind of car at all. But the mere fact that I exist and that I have the kind of body that men seem to like is enough for all those losers to blame it on me that they've bought a fancy car?
Your money, your wallet, your Ferrari; what do I have to do with it again?