If you can't get your car into a standard parking space without hitting another car, you really have no business driving a car at all.
This.
Talking about stereotyping women
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This.
^^ Or his wife makes him park there. And hold her pocket book while she shops.
This is pretty much the norm.
One time I told my gf at the time to pick a purse that went with my shoes as I would be the one holding it.
The hardest part to accept about all of this is Asian people being involved in a stereotype about bad drivers. That's almost unheard of.
Hmm...I am a pretty damn good parker, whether it be parallel or regular although I don't have to parallel much in Florida.
And as a woman, let me tell you I detest seeing women drive these HUGE SUVs, talk on the phone while trying to back into a parking space. Takes them like 15 minutes to get it right and then they STILL are over the line or crooked. Ugh.
Now granted, I am not perfect, but if you are going to back into a space, put the freakin phone down and park. It won't take that long and your friend can wait! Geesh.
And as a woman, let me tell you I detest seeing women drive these HUGE SUVs, talk on the phone while trying to back into a parking space. Takes them like 15 minutes to get it right and then they STILL are over the line or crooked. Ugh.
Now granted, I am not perfect, but if you are going to back into a space, put the freakin phone down and park. It won't take that long and your friend can wait! Geesh.
Women are generally worse drivers, period. Parking seems to prove especially problematic.
I'm not sexist, that's just the way it is. Girls mature faster, guys can drive better, etc, these tendencies do exist despite how appalled you think you need to act to seem diplomatic.
My fiance has a degree in automotive technology, and has taken more than a couple driving courses testing out new cars for the various companies she's worked for. She knows more about cars than anyone I know... and she still drives like an airhead sometimes.
Obviously there are moron guys everywhere who can't drive for crap, and plenty of women drivers who drive very well, but pretending that men and women are the exact same in every regard and exhibit absolutely no tendencies to perform better at certain tasks is just dumb imo.
I'm not sexist, that's just the way it is. Girls mature faster, guys can drive better, etc, these tendencies do exist despite how appalled you think you need to act to seem diplomatic.
My fiance has a degree in automotive technology, and has taken more than a couple driving courses testing out new cars for the various companies she's worked for. She knows more about cars than anyone I know... and she still drives like an airhead sometimes.
Obviously there are moron guys everywhere who can't drive for crap, and plenty of women drivers who drive very well, but pretending that men and women are the exact same in every regard and exhibit absolutely no tendencies to perform better at certain tasks is just dumb imo.
If you can't get your car into a standard parking space without hitting another car, you really have no business driving a car at all.
We could institute some kind of basic competency test, and general performance standards to more effectively weed out those people who really have no business operating moving vehicles, that would probably work really well... right up until there are millions of retards rioting in the streets when it turns out that the vast majority of people on earth should not be allowed to drive.
Maybe, but women still cause far fewer accidents than men, so maybe they drive worse but they certainly drive smarter.
The insurance statistic in the US is that women get into more fender bender while men get into fewer, but more seriously accidents with added property damage in the mix.
Ok, I'd rather be in a hundred fender benders than one total though. 
Every day I wake up thinking it's the 21st Century, and every day I'm reminded it's still the 1950s.
Seriously. Shouldn't these silly women realize they shouldn't be fooling around driving cars anyway, when their place is clearly in the kitchen, making my dinner and showing the kids how to "duck and cover".
I can park a car fairly well. I can usually get my minivan in the dead center of the parking spot lined up straight. However, there some some parking lots where when I open my door, I have to be very careful to not ding the car next to me. If I'm parked correctly, I should be able to open my door to get in and out of my car without having to shimmy past the latches.
So, even though I can park a car, I'd like to have a wider space.
So, even though I can park a car, I'd like to have a wider space.
I wasn't joking earlier about SUVs and trucks need to take two spaces because if they try to take one the overlap cuts out three safe spaces effectively. The effect then cascades down the entire parking row. Because local governments tried to make us buy small cars through space limitations on over 30% of the available spaces in lots of my city, but then failed to enforce those spaces like they do the blue handicapped parking zones it has been a problem since the 70s. Made worse by our taking trucks and using them as cars in the 90s and beyond. Heaven forbid if someone takes their army combat truck converted into a car into a single stall.
People actually had bigger families before we had minivans and SUVs but with one car per family still managed to get around
True, people used to have bigger families, but standard cars were bigger, too. I remember bench seats in the front that could fit three people fairly comfortably. Cars seated six easily then. Now, you're lucky if your backseat will hold three people, and the front is two bucket seats, so four, maybe five people in a car. If you need to put a car seat or two in the back seat, you lose that third seat. Most states require car seats of some kind up to age 8, so your backseat is tied up for that long. As standard cars shrunk, it made sense to create a "family car", hence the market for the minivan. A minivan is pretty much a taller station wagon with an extra row of seats.
I saw this and lol'd.
It's true, though. I've seen more women not know how the hell to park than men. They get these big family vans and don't have a clue how to get into a simple parking space.
It's true, though. I've seen more women not know how the hell to park than men. They get these big family vans and don't have a clue how to get into a simple parking space.
That's adorable lol. So if you take two infants, one boy and one girl, and have them participate in identical strength and conditioning programs for the first 18 years of their life, I take it you expect them both to be fully prepared to play professional football?
I suppose you don't think a man should offer to walk a girl to their car? Because hey, this is the 21st century, and if we all simply think progressively women will suddenly compensate for thousands of years of evolutionary differences.
Men and women are extremely similar in that we're all human beings that deserve respect and equal rights, but thinking that there aren't differences that manifest themselves in countless ways every day is shockingly stupid.
Women wants equal rights until they join a men's hockey team and complain that the men hit too hard.
Driving a car is not an activity that needs a lot of physical strength (or even intelligence). To claim women in general are incapable of driving a car, ist just ridiculous and insulting. Especially since we're not even talking about something like Formula1, but simply fucking parking a car.
It does take a bit of intelligence to park a car. If you aren't smart enough to know how close you are to another car, you're going to hit it. If you aren't smart enough to know your van isn't going to fit in a spot that's big enough for a Bug, you're going to hit everything around you.