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    Yale Murder Suspect "Extremely Controlling" • Study Says: Women Suck At Parking

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    Image of sebluver sebluver
    09/24/09

    In reply to Yale Murder Suspect "Extremely Controlling" • Study Says: Women Suck At Parking
    I can't parallel park and I can't back-in park either, but it's not because I'm a woman. It's because I don't live somewhere where parallel parking is prevalent, and because I think backing out of a parking space is just easier than backing in.
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    09/24/09

    @sebluver: Just something to consider, but pulling out of a parking spot forward is much, much safer than backing out, especially with respect to being able to see pedestrians.
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    09/23/09

    In reply to Yale Murder Suspect "Extremely Controlling" • Study Says: Women Suck At Parking
    Bad news for "breeders"? Really?
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    Image of la.donna.pietra la.donna.pietra
    09/23/09

    In reply to Yale Murder Suspect "Extremely Controlling" • Study Says: Women Suck At Parking
    Won't someone please think of the Goth kids? What are they going to smoke now that cloves are banned?
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    09/23/09

    In reply to Yale Murder Suspect "Extremely Controlling" • Study Says: Women Suck At Parking
    To join in, seriously? A bad parker because I happen to be a woman?
    No.
    I lived in Long Beach, king of all parking hell. I once parallel parked my car in such a tight space my neighbor actually texted me and said:
    "good luck getting your car out tomorrow, its completely blocked in."
    I wrote back and said "I PARKED it there."
    I shit you not there was perhaps and inch in front and behind it.
    Oh, I also work occasionally as a valet for a company that is ALL women.
    Want to see some INSANE amazing parking Daily Fail?
    Come along to work with me...
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    09/23/09

    In reply to Yale Murder Suspect "Extremely Controlling" • Study Says: Women Suck At Parking
    Time to find a local Korean store to stock up on PEEL cigarettes, I guess,
    Those things are amazing. Melon flavored! It's like candy! And nicotine!

    And cloves. Le sigh.
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    09/23/09

    @lalie (apologetic mess): I am not a smoker, but once or twice a year a friend and I enjoyed buying a pack of cloves and smoking three or four in a row.

    Sigh. I will miss that. I hate smoking actually, but think this ban is ridiculous.
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    09/23/09

    In reply to Yale Murder Suspect "Extremely Controlling" • Study Says: Women Suck At Parking
    I hate parking; it stresses me out to no end. I don't think that I'm bad at it because I'm female, I think I'm bad at it because my parents didn't let me drive at a normal age and instead instilled a horrific fear of driving in me. I don't like driving with other people in my car because I feel like I have to perform, especially at parking, and I worry that if someone sees me parking badly they will think I can't do it because I'm female, and not for the simple reason that no one ever really taught me properly. (However, this does make a good park-job really satisfying. I'll even text my roommate and tell her about it.)
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    09/23/09

    In reply to Yale Murder Suspect "Extremely Controlling" • Study Says: Women Suck At Parking
    I AM A PHENOMENAL PARKER. Backing in? I do it for fun. Parallel parking? Child's play. And I have an SUV. And I am a woman.

    I actually am kind of boasty and protective of my super parking powers, in large part because of assumptions like those cited in the Daily Fail. And, um, I have been known to talk at length about my car's exceptional turning radius.
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    09/23/09

    @jigglyball: Me too. Girls have asked me to park their cars before, because I'm such a bad ass parker.

    Also, once a friend's car got stuck terribly in snow/ice in Boston. Two older guys I was with tried for an hour to get it out, while I kept saying that we should try this other method (the rocking method). They didn't listen, but before giving up entirely we tried my version. About 5 minutes later, the car was out. I was in the driver's seat.

    AND I HAVE A VAGINA!!!!1!
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    09/23/09

    @Cimorene: PARKERS WITH VAGINAS UNITE!
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    09/23/09

    @Cimorene: Rocking is where it's at! We got stuck in major mud on a vacation, and our LADY tour guide took the wheel from the male driver and got it out. She was awesome.
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    Image of LaComtesse LaComtesse
    09/23/09

    In reply to Yale Murder Suspect "Extremely Controlling" • Study Says: Women Suck At Parking
    I'm gonna brag here about my parallel parking skills which were once described as "probably the most awesome thing I've ever seen."

    Driving in NY. Alternate side of the street parking was in effect, so there were a lot of cars double parked. Also, it had been snowing, so there was about 2 feet of snow between tightly packed cars and against the curb. I saw a spot buried in the middle of four cars.

    Nailed it.
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    Image of Gretchen is a new kitten mom! Gretchen is a new kitten mom!
    09/23/09

    @LaComtesse: I once had to back a large moving van towing a car into a narrow driveway when Mr. G tried and failed beyond the point of simple cursing. He was reduced to speechless sputtering and actually kicked the tire of the truck when I had successfully completed the task.
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    Image of LaComtesse LaComtesse
    09/23/09

    @envirodesigner: *bow*

    @Gretchen is a new kitten mom!: That is amazing. Parallel parking yes, large trucks... less confident!
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    09/23/09

    In reply to Yale Murder Suspect "Extremely Controlling" • Study Says: Women Suck At Parking
    I have a question.
    Who are the women that encourage these Raymond Clark types by dating them?
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    Image of MissMollyKate MissMollyKate
    09/23/09

    @Rooo sez BISH PLZ: Anyone can date an abuser. He seems great at first, but...

    What varies is how long women stay with guys like that -- sometimes they grew up in an abusive home, so they don't know a different reality. Sometimes they think it'd be too dangerous to leave, and so they stay in the relationship. Some women don't believe it's abuse. Some women have been beaten down to the point where think they deserve it. And so on. Some women say eff this, I'm outta here.

    Also? Kinda victim-blaming isn't very cool. It's not really up to women to encourage or discourage certain behaviors in men. He learned abuse somewhere, he can unlearn it. Problem is, abusers don't think there's anything wrong with the way they treat their intimate partners. And victims who may be looked at as encouraging or enabling this behavior are generally trying to maximize their own safety and don't give a shit about giving a gift to society in the form of a reformed abuser, when in the process of that reform, they may get themselves killed.
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    09/23/09

    In reply to Yale Murder Suspect "Extremely Controlling" • Study Says: Women Suck At Parking
    I get a thrill out of parallel parking. I'm damn good at it too.
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    Image of andyburn andyburn
    09/23/09

    @SarahMC: I rule at parallel parking. My boyfriend makes me parallel park his car for him when we are trying to fit in a tight spot. It makes me feel important.
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    09/23/09

    @andyburn: I love it! Too many people spend their lives in places without street parking - only parking lots. Then they're terrible in the city. I initially failed my driving test because I had not mastered parallel parking. So I learned to do it perfectly and now I get tingly when I get really close to the curb.
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    09/23/09

    @SarahMC: Totally. I do feel accomplished when get it really close to the curb. It's funny when people move to the city and just can't do it. Confidence is critical to a good parking job.
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    09/23/09

    In reply to Yale Murder Suspect "Extremely Controlling" • Study Says: Women Suck At Parking
    As someone who recently had a miscarriage, I cannot imagine many things more cruel than what Glenn Beck said. My God. It's bad enough to wonder all the time if you did something to cause it (even if every doctor has said you did not), but to have someone say that to you?
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    09/23/09

    In reply to Yale Murder Suspect "Extremely Controlling" • Study Says: Women Suck At Parking
    Yeah, but see, if I get the Joe Wilson action figure, I can make him and my Glenn Beck action figure make out while I'm on con calls. So, there's that.
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    Image of MizJenkins MizJenkins
    09/23/09

    In reply to Yale Murder Suspect "Extremely Controlling" • Study Says: Women Suck At Parking
    Oh Susie Susie Susie...I understand you have the best of intentions helping girls from the inner-city escape the squalor and confinement of their urban lives to get fresh air and be at one with nature, but I don't think taking them on a field trip to the bowels of Mississippi is really the answer. Or at least, it's the answer to the wrong question.
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    Image of willwriteforfood willwriteforfood
    09/23/09

    In reply to Yale Murder Suspect "Extremely Controlling" • Study Says: Women Suck At Parking
    Glenn Beck is a fucking asshole. I have nothing more eloquent to say on this because my head just exploded from rage.
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    09/23/09

    In reply to Yale Murder Suspect "Extremely Controlling" • Study Says: Women Suck At Parking
    The trick to parallel parking, and I give you all this for free: Pull up next to the car in front of the empty space, and line up your steering wheel with the other car's steering wheel. If you start backing up from that point, more often than not the car will slide right into the space in one move. At most, you'll have to do the back-and-forth inching a couple of times. Voila! You're welcome.
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