If I noticed a Ferrari, it would be because my husband had pointed it out to me and was drooling. I can't count the times he's said, "Wow, look at that!" with a tone one usually reserves for solar eclipses or High Gothic cathedrals. I look, and look, and look and say, "At what?" He says, "That (pedigreed) car over there. It's beautiful." I say, "If you say so."

I don't "get" cars. I don't view them as objets d'art. While I can identify different brands by their logos, and have some sense of "German-looking" cars from "Japanese-looking" cars, ... I can't really appreciate the finer details of what makes one "prettier" than another (though I certainly can tell a "good" car from bad as I drive one!)

My point is this: guys who buy cars to impress women aren't doing it for the women, any more than women who buy Jimmy Choo or Stuart Weitzman or Prada shoes, thinking the guy will notice and recognize her as classy. Here's what the men I've polled notice (or care) about women's shoes: Is she wearing any? Can she walk in them? Do they make her taller than him?

Here's what women like me care about a guy's (or anyone's) car: Does it run? Is it safe? Is it reasonably clean? Can we parallel park it in less than 20 minutes? Are there naked women on the mudflaps or the rearview mirror?

If I notice a guy cruising around in an obvious status car (some stupid coupe with the top down, or some pimped-out overgrown boom box, or some ridiculous Humvee monstrosity) I'm likely to think "Who is he trying too hard to impress?" Not "Ooooohhh! Dreamy!"

I had the misfortune to have business dealings with a particularly greedy malignant middle-aged male who owned a Porsche. His coffee cup read,"It's all about ME." His office contained no pictures of any human beings: no photos of wife, family or friends. Instead, the whole space was like a chapel devoted to the worship of the Almighty Porsche. So, when I see men in these high end sports cars, I have no illusions about what their priorities in life really are.

but Alexif essesntially said everything I was going to say myself.

Six granola munchers talk about their list for bicycle boys, and we are supposed to take seriously the idea that 3 BILLION other women ALSO chase 'green' guys.

It comes down to education and training. Teach the girls to quit promoting big spending, by themselves and by their men.

I know it involves Pookie inconveniencing her choice in men, so it is bound to fail. And I know women will STILL blame men for it, because this is ALL women are capable of, washing their hands and throwing the dirty water at their men.

But it is still a noble enterprise to attempt to break the genetic stranglehold women's consistently bad choices have over this planet and its future.

meant to say their LUST for bicycle boys

Whenever I see an extremely beautiful young woman in the arms of a man, it is inevitable that the guy takes a public bus to work, rides a bicycle to the grocery store, and has a small house with no air conditioning. Oh, and he gives all his money away to charities that feed third world orphans.

I guess I was all wrong thinking beautiful young women chase men with yachts and porsche fleets and private jets and 42,000 square foot houses.

WHAT WAS I THINKING?!? Don't flog me too hard...

I'll explain what was wrong with Mr. King's comments. Basically, he packed two bad assumptions into one short phrase. The first assumption is about women being passive. His questioner asked what she could do about global warming... in other words, she asked what actions she, herself, could take. And he responded that she could "stop admiring." Which is doubly insulting, as he's asking her to stop being a passive bystander in a scenario he imagined himself.

Secondly, he's assuming that women are responsible for things that men do. Which is absurd, if one thinks about it logically: The man in his scenario made the choice to acquire and drive a Ferrari, so surely it's his reponsibility. If he did it thinking he'd impress women that way, well, that's his problem, not theirs.

Houston? L.A.? Scottsdale?

Or maybe you just watch a lot of TV...

That would help explain why you actually believe that attractive women are generally gold diggers and that reasonable women are generally unattractive.

And it would help explain why you only notice beautiful women in ridiculous expensive cars and not the ones I see in Toyotas.

as many feminist apologists seem to do. (maybe this is deliberate obfuscation?)

And it would help explain why you only notice beautiful women in ridiculous expensive cars and not the ones I see in Toyotas.

Not ALL beautiful women chase rich guys.

Few rich guys bother to seek out less than beautiful women. They have choices up the kazoo and beyond-- beautiful and smart, beautiful and nice, beautiful and gutsy, beautiful and responsible, beautiful and family oriented...

Most guys, even the non-rich ones, seek out beautiful women.

as he's asking her to stop being a passive bystander in a scenario he imagined himself.

Like feminists and women in general do not always seem to make up pretend straw man scenarios about men, just so they can argue against false scenarios.

Secondly, he's assuming that women are responsible for things that men do. Which is absurd, if one thinks about it logically:

But men are responsible for things that women do. Or at least MOST feminists and women seem to love to lodge this accusatiohn at men ALL THE DAMN TIME.

If not ALL beautiful women chase guys in expensive cars, then what is the point of your argument?

What is the point of arguing that SOME beautiful women chase guys in expensive cars?

You seem to be saying that MOST beautiful women chase guys in expensive cars -- or at least, some kind of statistically meaningful number that prevents regular guys from getting beautiful women.

That is a stereotype. That is all we are saying. Regular guys get pretty women, beautiful women, smart women, smart beautiful fun women, every day all the time.

It is true that SOME beautiful women chase guys in expensive cars. So what? Some guys in expensive cars chase beautiful women. How does that affect anyone else?