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peroxidepirate:
refinery29:
Oh good– Cosmopolitan has been working with a car company to design an extremely patronizing and low-powered “car for women”
Apparently, all these years, you’ve been driving a vehicle suited for the wrong gender. At least that’s the implication of a new car that purports to be designed to meet women’s unique needs. And it’s spreading a disturbing number of stereotypes about women.
asksdljsdl NO.
How about starting with a regular car, and letting buyers choose between a few different seat options? And providing more adjustment in where/how seatbelts are attached, and airbags that can be adjusted based on the height and build of the driver? And maybe adding non-driving-related safety features, i.e. the ability to turn on headlights from a distance, via key fob? Or including built-in carseats for kids, and more accessible (clearly labeled, easy to find) child safety lock controls, and kid-specific seatbelts and airbags in the back seat (because it’s not fair, but women do most of the child-hauling as well as child care)? I mean, if - and it’s a very strong if - there’s a need for gender-based variations in car design, these things might actually be helpful.
Or how about selling the exact same fucking car at a set price, always, so salespeople can’t charge women more money than men for the same damn thing. How about that.
Imagine this interspersed with the handclap emoji thing:
Seatbelts! that! accommodate! tits!
That’s literally the only gender-related complaint I have about cars. But if I were designing a car For Women, I’d probably make it extra butch-looking on the exterior, because that’s the other thing a lot of women I know look for if they drive alone a lot– to stave off harassment on the road from other drivers!
If I were designing a car for women I’d make the airbags not kill small people and give the whole exterior a super-butch Don’t Fuck With Me vibe, because that’s, in my experience, what girly girls want.
peroxidepirate:
refinery29:
Oh good– Cosmopolitan has been working with a car company to design an extremely patronizing and low-powered “car for women”
Apparently, all these years, you’ve been driving a vehicle suited for the wrong gender. At least that’s the implication of a new car that purports to be designed to meet women’s unique needs. And it’s spreading a disturbing number of stereotypes about women.
asksdljsdl NO.
How about starting with a regular car, and letting buyers choose between a few different seat options? And providing more adjustment in where/how seatbelts are attached, and airbags that can be adjusted based on the height and build of the driver? And maybe adding non-driving-related safety features, i.e. the ability to turn on headlights from a distance, via key fob? Or including built-in carseats for kids, and more accessible (clearly labeled, easy to find) child safety lock controls, and kid-specific seatbelts and airbags in the back seat (because it’s not fair, but women do most of the child-hauling as well as child care)? I mean, if - and it’s a very strong if - there’s a need for gender-based variations in car design, these things might actually be helpful.
Or how about selling the exact same fucking car at a set price, always, so salespeople can’t charge women more money than men for the same damn thing. How about that.
Imagine this interspersed with the handclap emoji thing:
Seatbelts! that! accommodate! tits!
That’s literally the only gender-related complaint I have about cars. But if I were designing a car For Women, I’d probably make it extra butch-looking on the exterior, because that’s the other thing a lot of women I know look for if they drive alone a lot– to stave off harassment on the road from other drivers!
If I were designing a car for women I’d make the airbags not kill small people and give the whole exterior a super-butch Don’t Fuck With Me vibe, because that’s, in my experience, what girly girls want.
