<![CDATA[Jezebel: Car Talk]]> http://cache.jezebel.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: Car Talk]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/car talk http://jezebel.com/tag/car talk <![CDATA[What Does An "Intellectual Sex Kitten" Look For In A Car?]]> Well, that depends on whether you're the aforementioned sexy lady, "the feline blond," "the yuppie hippie" or "the sporty mother." More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5720643&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[It's Scary When Daddy Drives]]> Circa '88, I remember my 3-year-old brother's scorn — and my subsequent indignation —when he learned our grandparent-bound flight had a female pilot. It was particularly unfortunate that the pilot then drove the plane into another one on the tarmac. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5719780&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Stubborn Men Pay The Price In Mileage]]> In another episode of "Everything in The Lockhorns was true," it seems men really won't ask for directions — and devote a lot of their lives to driving around lost! (Cue laugh track.) More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5673632&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Newt Gingrich Really Knows What The Ladies Want To Hear]]> The likely Republican candidate for president used metaphors to explain to wife #2 why he was leaving her for wife #3. This is according to wife #2, as told to Esquire. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5610329&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Danica Patrick Is Not Doing It For Women]]> Says Danica Patrick, "I actually feel very different than maybe the stereotypical breakthrough people do-‘I'm doing it for women,' and stuff like that...I don't feel like that at all. Because then it's only just fuelling the gender separation, again." More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5546468&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Women: Good Drivers One Year, Bad Ones The Next]]> A new study says gay men and straight women share a poor sense of direction and straight men are better drivers. Psychologists at the University of London employed a virtual-reality scenario in which volunteers had to swim through an underwater maze to find a hidden platform or explore an environment and find "rewards." The gays and the women didn't do too well! ("The results back earlier studies supporting the stereotype that women are poor navigators. Although women are more successful in tests requiring them to remember the position of objects, men consistently do better in tasks requiring navigation and uncovering hidden objects.") More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=340087&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Riding In Cars With Girls]]> There are lots of fallacies about women and driving. That they can't parallel park. That they can't handle manual transmissions (take it from us: they can, they do, and they like it). That they turn maps around when looking at maps for directions. (Okay, well, maybe sometimes). Oh, and that they don't really like cars at all. Anyway, researchers in the UK are reporting that women tend to do things like, you know, give their cars names and drive with both hands on the wheel because, unlike men, women "feel more comfortable expressing their feelings directly" and see their cars as "separate entities".
The study noted where one-handed drivers preferred to put their spare hand. It found that 46 per cent of men rested it on the gear stick. Just 31 per cent of women did this.
Translation: Women aren't as obsessed with phalluses. Wait, there's more: More »
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