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19 Aug 2004

cars.about.com has some dumb article listing the “top 10 cars for women”:

Women tell us they prefer a car that’s agile, easy to park, with good visibility.

Because men, as we know, prefer cars that are slow and cumbersome, impossible to park, and have low visibility.

They like to sit higher and rightly insist on storage for purses.

Okay, I’ll give them this one, because while Amanda is learning to drive, we’ve had trouble figuring out where to put her purse while I’m in the passenger seat.

Low price and running costs are important for working women.

.. but not for men. Nope. Men like to pay at lot and keep paying, for no reason.

Space for growing families is essential in many cases and safety is a major factor.

While men don’t actually have families, if they did, they would definitely prefer a car in which any minor accident would result in their prolonged, fiery death. Isn’t gender funny like that?

Good times. Stay tuned for the “Top 10 Cars for Black People”.

Comments

Doug Orleans — August 19, 2004 at 22:15 · reply

Men should insist on storage for toolbelts.

Erik — August 20, 2004 at 02:29 · reply

The opposite of “agile and easy to park” isn’t “slow and hard to park”, it’s “big and powerful.” It’s not a question, for the most part, of what qualities are positive; we’d all like a car that is all good things. The question is how we make the trade-offs when the qualities we value are in tension with one another. And there probably are gender tendencies there.

On the other hand that article is still pretty dumb.

likwidshoe — August 21, 2004 at 00:28 · reply

Heh…I like this quote from the article, “High-tech gizmos are not on their list; the ladies are too smart for that.” What is that supposed to mean?

Quag7 — October 14, 2004 at 18:08 · reply

I like a car that is mad street. Big rims, drop top, maybe like gold panels on the doors reading “I Got it Going On” in cursive font. Oh hell yeah, and the honeys dig it too.

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