Letters to the Editor
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Worst navigators you mean.
Anecdotally this is true. In my experience at any rate. Women tend to learn a single way to get anywhere and store it in memory and use it no matter what no matter where they happen to be at the time. Even if that means going home and starting over. My SO has lived on the same street for the last 12 years and in truth cannot drive down the block and make 3 turns w/o getting lost. I wish there really was an organic reason for it else it's just learned helplessness for the sake of exerting control.
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I really don't care if it is true or not . . .
We all know that women and men are different. The question is, why do we see headlines like this instead of headlines like "Straight Men 'Worst Home Decorators'". It is as if flaws in men are overlooked while women are expected to be perfect at everything--and if not, then we are are inferior to men. Sheesh.
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Was it really a test of driving skills?
>In one, "participants had to traverse eight 'arms' from a circular junction to find hidden rewards," according to Science Daily. In another, they were asked to escape from a virtual pool by locating a hidden platform.<
Before straight males get too overwhelmed with their own skill at these tasks, they should review the literature. These tests are the human version of rats running dry and liquid mazes.
A better headline might have been: Straight males drive as well as rats!
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But are they worse?
Females may not be inherently worse drivers than males, and I am aware of no data to suggest that they are involved in more injury-wrecks per mile of driving than males, but I have had some experiences that make me wonder.
After having several occasions to demonstrate my skill at surviving car-bike interactions in which the driver of the car had two X chromosomes, I began to seek an explanation for why women seemed to be less capable than men of observing a bicyclist (I’m a very large person and was often struck in residential districts while riding on a tandem with my son and two large red panniers on the back. We were nearly as large as some European cars.) I noticed that the drivers who either ran into me or nearly ran into me were often either on their cell phones or had earbuds in place. Since I walk around town a great deal, I began counting and noting the gender of the people who were driving-while-cellphoning. Not surprisingly, in more than two-thirds of the cars driven by people on cell phones, the driver was female. Since several studies have shown that driving while on a cell phone is worse than drunk driving in terms of the driver’s reaction time and ability to recognize hazards, this is a possible explanation for my personal negative experiences with car-bound women.
Before someone jumps all over me, I do recognize that it may have been the result of a small sample size in terms of my negative car-bike interactions (7or 8) and thus may mean nothing. Also, since I was only counting the cars driven by cell phone users it is possible that more cars were being driven by females when the count was made. That said, I still have to wonder…
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*eyeroll*
For gods sakes, how many times a month are you people at Broadsheet going to freak out over a headline? Hasn't it occurred to you YET that the writers do not create their own headlines? Why on earth do you keep expecting them to match the actual data in the article?
On second thought, forget it. I don't even know why I bother pointing this kind of thing out.
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Do car insurance companies still
insure young men and women at different rates? Do the actuarial tables reflect different chances for car accidents?
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@Traduced!
I think you fail to see how it works:
Suggesting women are worse at anything is sexist.
But suggesting that men are worse at everything isn't sexist whatsoever.
It all makes sense when you're a Broadsheet contributor.
In other news I expect to see on Broadsheet: Should Hillary Clinton sue the voters of Iowa for discrimination? She didn't come-out first in the Democratic primary, and we all know that sexism is to blame whenever a woman doesn't win something.
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@ Traduced!
There are very few "car accidents". There are however quite a few car WRECKS in the U.S. (2.5 million injuries per year) The word choice is significant. An accident is something which is neither preventable nor easily foreseeable, such as a mechanical failure which is not due to a negligent lack of maintainance on the part of the owner-driver. A car wreck is due to the actions of the driver such as driving too fast for the conditions, tailgating, inattention or otherwise not driving defensively. Also please note that the weather never causes wrecks but it can be a factor that people fail to heed. I live near a fire station (first responders for car wrecks here). I can always tell when the rain starts, the temperature dips below freezing, the sun sets or the sun rises because the sirens start within minutes of such events as drivers fail to heed the conditions. I guess our society is built on the premise that we need not take responsibility for our actions, especially when we are in our fossil-fool powered wheelchairs.
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discrimination?
"Should Hillary Clinton sue the voters of Iowa for discrimination? "
No. Of course if she had won (or one of the other contenders had won the Iowa thing), we'd have someone posting that it was because of "white racism". Then that poster would add "lol, lol, lol" a few times.
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Straight men make worse mommies
Straight Men Make Worse Mommies
There is no need for headlines like this to be blurted in the New York Times, it is almost universally ASSUMED by women to be a true statement.
and if some man THREATENS this cliche by being a good 'mommie', then women will find a way to trip him up or chop him down, as he is now seen as a threat.
So you can see men are screwed coming and going by women. Women spread a meme or idea (such as this headline) to discourage men from even bothering, then if a man breaks through and actually IS a good 'mommie', he is thrown a brick liferaft so he can sink and be forgotten. Another tactic is for women to say that if the guy does not do it HER way, then he is not as good.
You can see how FAIR women are to men. This is all too typical on the part of women and permeates all their relations with men in every sphere in which they have influence.