Whenever they are showing women learning to drive they ALWAYS think it is funny to show them running pedestrians over and hitting others cars, getting hysterical and screaming, letting go of the wheel etc.
BE FAIR. I know all the men are going to say that that is what they are like. But having been on the road, I have made mistakes just like many men on the roads make mistakes. The only difference is I have seen men make bigger more dangerous mistakes but then again if there's one thing women are useless at is looking in their mirrors and checking for other drivers before they reverse. I have had almost 4 women drivers completerly unaware I am behind them, without them knowing i moved back so they wouldn't hit me!!
Also the amount of times I have done a 3 point turn and very quickly given the circumstances and had men look at me like I can't drive it really makes me angry. They think just because the media tells them women can't drive they can look at you like that.
2007-03-09 23:13:03 · 16 answers · asked by The Face 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
I know its only television but people are heavily influenced by television, there's no need to show all the women crashing their cars going into lakes on their driving tests and then they show the young boys passing straightaway. It makes women nervous and under confident on the roads because they know people are ready to pounce on their mistakes.
Seriously have any women driven a car into a lake or driven over the footpath with pedestrians running all over?!
2007-03-09 23:25:31 · update #1
yes its basically social proofing,
this is the problem i have with the media
they create certain stereotypes
which do not normally exist
woman are better drivers then men - fact
there is a very good web site called anxiety culture
which has a lot of things like this
2007-03-09 23:23:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your right.
I went out in my car this morning and was astounded at the high level of driving skills portrayed from the female drivers.
They are such a credit, and will make good role models for up and coming female learners.
I would even go a bit further and say that driving instructors should all be female.
Also make it an offence, punishable by law if any male attempts to teach anyone these important driving related skills.
Hhmmm...
2007-03-09 23:33:16 · answer #2 · answered by stuart d 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It has been firmly established that men and women are as good or as bad as each other when driving. Interestingly, The the predominant reasons for bad-driving vary between the genders. Men tend to be arrogant and aggressive and women tend to dither and be uncertain.
Why they want to put ordinary, or indeed, sub-ordinary people on TV all the time I don't know. Bores the --- off me!
2007-03-09 23:24:11 · answer #3 · answered by The Oak 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was a driving instructor for 12 years and would in that time much prefer to teach women than men
They tend to listen to what they are being told and try harder to drive correctly.
Men in general tended to be know it all when they got in the car for the first time saying " My mate says this, my mate says that."
This is of course a generalisation and you get idiots of both sexes on occasion.
I have had women take both hands off the wheel and mess with their hair while travelling a 30mph. but Having asked one male pupil to turn left he tried to turn right into a row of terraced houses.
2007-03-09 23:50:04 · answer #4 · answered by Dreamweaver 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it's true! some women are dumb drivers, even when im driving and see that it was a woman who just made a dumb mistake i say "it had to be a woman....." but ofcours you cant say that ALL women are bad driver theres some of us who drive intellegently..and + the same goes for men too..some of them drive like idiots!
2007-03-09 23:40:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeh thats true ,,,like when i started my driving lesson all my guy friends said we better get of the road and i said why and they said because your a woman so it does influnce when guys are worse drivers then us..thats why every time you hear about a crash in the media its mostly BOY racers. =D
2007-03-09 23:51:46 · answer #6 · answered by lilshortyjess 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It makes good TV.The programme would be very boring if it showed perfect driving
2007-03-09 23:18:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it truly is merely no longer authentic in any respect, off the suited of my head, allow me imagine of a few examples of black women who're no longer portrayed as ghetto. Hydes sister from that 70's tutor. that black adult males black spouse from king of queens of course oprah, tyra banks Clevlands new spouse on the clevland tutor. Black lady from Glee there you bypass, that is merely on your head, truly the purely black woman on television i can imagine of it truly is portrayed as "ghetto" is clevlands previous spouse from relations guy. And so what? many human beings are portryaed negatively on television, yet blacks seem the purely ones complaining and calling it "racist"
2016-10-17 11:29:00 · answer #8 · answered by uday 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And funny that car insurance cost more for men than women.
2007-03-09 23:17:54 · answer #9 · answered by Celeste P 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I agree with you. I have been driving for 15 years and not one accident. I pride myself with being a good driver.
Lets face it, when god made man She was only testing!!!!
2007-03-09 23:19:13 · answer #10 · answered by les c 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋