Female Drivers: Truths And Lies
Female drivers rate themselves as poor, and most men agree. What's up with this, ladies?
And now, the battle of the sexes, driving edition, shall commence.
Ladies, why are you so down on yourselves? The reason we ask: Ford Motors recently released a Harris Poll on parallel parking, and the results were grim. The funny thing is, sure, we can all make assumptions about the the sexes when it comes to driving. But specifically parallel parking? Don't we all hate it? Apparantly not. Here, the details:
- 43 percent of female drivers rated their parallel parking skills as fair to poor; 21 percent of male drivers rated their skills the same.
- 63 percent of men rated women as fair to poor, while only 25 percent of women gave the same marks to men. 5 Places To Find A Smart Guy
Basically, according to this poll, women think they are bad parallel parkers, and the majority of men also think women are bad at it. Yeesh. We at Love Buzz have to put the brakes on this nonsense. Ford conducted this poll, crunched these numbers and compiled stats to introduce its new Park Assist function. You press a button, let go of the wheel, and the car parallel parks itself. For real. OK, that's a pretty cool function, but, really, women if you're bad a parallel parking, get out and practice. Are Gender Differences A Myth?
Part of being a good driver, like dating or anything, really, is confidence. We love seeing couples where the woman drives and the man sits shotgun. The likes of Danica Patrick would probably agree. On The Highway Of Love: Company Makes Traffic An Opportunity To Meet A Mate
Tell us, readers, who does the driving in your relationship?
Discussion
This is a beautiful example of a "self-fulfilling prophecy." Women are portrayed in the media, in "jokes" and in modern folklore as being "bad drivers." The women in this poll have internalised that information, made it their belief and now until they believe otherwise, they will "accept" that they are "lousy drivers." It is illogical but sadly, this is the case.
Interestingly, men are tend to be worse drivers. One only has to look to any insurances statistics to obtain this evidence.
Also, if one clears their mind and then stands in the corner of any busy street, anywhere in the world, you will see that men are more dangerous behind the wheel and also do not handle the vehicle as well.
Now, when the day comes that women are no longer the butt of so many jokes and bullying about their driving abilities, then they too will become as poor as men in their ability to drive a vehicle. This is so because women have to over-compensate - like so many other instances in life - just to be accepted as "ok," therefore their ability to perform the task, in this case driving is going to far surpass most men's abilities.
I have been driving for over 20 years and I have always thought of myself as an excellent driver - even when I was the cause of a wreck in my teens. This is very much like the typical male attitude that even though most of them are seriously dangerous, careless drivers, they will believe in their abilities - even when those abilities are mediocre to poor.
As a matter of fact, when men made "jokes" about my driving before they even set foot in my car, they would be grilled on their need to be a sheep and not think for themselves. That is essentially what they are doing and the pity is that by the strength of their convictions and the pack mentality, they've spread this poison to women themselves. That is truly tragic.
Let's face it. It isn't ok to be racist then why do people still think it's ok to make fun of women?
It is illogical.
I just noticed that there are a few typos in my post. It is still readable though.
What is wrong ladies? From where I sit, we are much, much better drivers then men. I drive 40 miles round trip to work every day and the worse drivers are men in SUVs. They don't signal, suddenly decide they must be in the exact spot you are currenly in and then flip you the bird if they don't like what you're doing.
I can parallel park in the 3 moves you must perform it in for your license. Learned to do it and can still do it. Go out there and practice. Don't take this lying down!
As for those of you who drive SUVs, remember, there are other people on the road.
