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king_side_castle t1_ixzmgni wrote

Reply to TIFU by saying 'Men are born drivers' infront of my two senior female co-workers. TL;DR by ioncarelol

The stereotype that women are worse drivers feeds in to unfair bias against and discrimination of women. Any “pro-man” statement also implies “anti-woman” unfortunately, due to the historical mistreatment of women.

Honestly, if you had said “Leos (or whatever) are born drivers” or “Great drivers run in my family” I doubt anyone would have taken offense. Both of those statement are also exclusionary of others, but not specifically women, so they’re less offensive to people.

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ben_db t1_ixzks7f wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIFU by saying 'Men are born drivers' infront of my two senior female co-workers. TL;DR by ioncarelol

It really depends what you mean by "better".

Safer? hell no, men tend to be way more dangerous.

Getting out of potentially dangerous situations? Possible.

Driving competitively at a very high level? Yes, men are more prevalent in this, but that doesn't mean that a man will be better than a woman, only that characteristics that lead someone to excel are more likely to be there in men.

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