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I could say a lot, but I’m not going to.
I can’t drive, but I’ve been in many cars. Now I’m scared to learn.

I’m taking my exam August 5th, & I hate changing lanes. The possibility of hurting someone/causing an accident makes me a nervous wreck while driving. Sorry if I contribute to the “women = bad drivers” stereotype. :l

But the idea that women are bad drivers is annoying. When I’m in the car with a guy driving, I notice they’re more wreckless/daring while women tend to be more cautious. I’m not saying all guys are wreckless, it’s just the ones I’m around are. Heh.

psh.i say i am a pretty good driver myself.and alot of ppl have told me i drive good anyhow..i never been told ‘ for a grl ‘ tho

i say ..u dont listen to anyone else..if u think ur a good driver or even an average one as u said..then thats it..who cares what other thinks how u drive.or wat u do in ur car during stop lights.lolz i dont get y ppl jst go on judging other ppl.it jst annoys the hell outta me.

I absolutely hate this stereotype. My ex boyfriend used to always tell me that I was a good driver… for a girl. And he’d playfully say “It’s okay. You’re a woman. You’re not supposed to be able to drive well,” when I would do something that wasn’t actually wrong, but it wasn’t the way he’d do it. That, of course, would get me pissed to the point of yelling. I don’t mind someone talking bad about me, I have a pretty thick skin for that, but talking bad about my entire gender really makes me mad.

I’m a pretty good driver.  I was once rear-ended by a girl yappin’ with her friend (and no, not even on the phone).  It was funny cause I happen to look in my rear view mirror and notice these two girls who were very animated in their convo, didn’t think much, driving along, traffic is coming to a stop, I put on my brakes and SLAM, her front end was all bashed up… she was driving a rental.
BUT, I was also rear-ended on the highway by a guy.  So yeah, males, females, good days, bad days, we all have our moments. 

LOL. Yeah, I am a terrible driver. Those fluffy woodland creatures that met their death under my tires can vouch for that (well, if they could, I mean …).

yeah i suck at driving but i really dont care

I was having a conversation with a friend about how I plan to learn to drive stick, and he literally said to me “Are you sure about that? Driving stick is a lot harder for girls.”

Haha, he motivated me to learn and prove him wrong now.

I hate driving and on the decent to bad side of driving. 

i drive like a crazy woman sometimes. and i always have problems with bikers and motorcycles. idk why.

If you’re like me- aka from some asian country, you get hit with TWO of them: Asians “can’t” drive, and Girls can’t drive. I don’t drive, but my dad is teaching me- he’s a great driver (he’s white), and he told me that I’m better than my brother. ha! But that stinks to hear stuff like “for a girl”…. but some girls stink at driving, and some asians (okay…. a lot…) aren’t good at driving… AND not all boys are good at driving either.

I’ve only had my license for 6 years but I feel that I am a very good driver…for both sexes. I know guys who are bad drivers and I know girls who are bad drivers. A lot of people ( both sexes) need to learn how to PUT THE F-ING CELL PHONE DOWN!!!! I hate driving near someone who is txting or talking on the phone. It’s soooo dangerous. I don’t care how “talented” you think you are b/c you can drive and txt at the same time…you are bound to screw up one day.
I don’t think it’s fair to stereotype women as bad drivers. It depends on the person no matter what sex that are.

i really dont think that anyone should be doing ANYTHING but driving whilst behind the wheel, even if it is at a red light, something could happen where one would need to be paying attention, and applying lip gloss is probably quite distracting

I have yet to learn driving (im 15, almost 16… NJ requires you to be at least 17) but I can’t wait! I’m sure I won’t be as bad as what people think about girls. I also agree with the girl a few above me: I get hit with two… I cant drive cuz im a girl & I cant drive cuz I’m ASIAN. -_____- Stupid stereotypes. On the other handdd, my brother is actually a pretty good driver. it’s weird xD 

LOL
this stereotype makes me laugh because i drive better then most of my male friends
i can drive tractors through the fields, giant trucks out of mud pits, and zip around downtown manhattan during morning rush hour (definitely the hardest!!!)

sorry to all the azns, i totally believe the azn stereotype because i used to live in flushing NYC which is predominantly azn and experienced the driving first hand. the downtown flushing precinct has more traffic accidents in a month then the other precincts around it have (combined) in several months….my friend is an azn cop and he gets made fun of for it haha

i like to think that i’m a decent driver. i’m really careful, so people might rag on me for that, but screw them. *shrug* … but if someone tells me my mom is a bad driver, they’re mentally insane. actually, most women in my family are good drivers. sure, i know some girls that are bad drivers, but i know guys that fit that description too. mehh, stereotypes suck.

absolutely not true!  i’m a great driver, i’m a better driver than any of my exes.

No.  Studies have proven that women are BETTER drivers than men.  We have better attention spans.  It’s hormonal.  Guys think of sex every 20 minutes and women don’t.  That’s distraction enough.

I am a good driver. I have been driving for a year. No accidents. The only incident that happened to my car was some old lady backed into it while I wasn’t even there. I was pissed because she did not say sorry, and she blamed me. OKAY there you crazy old broad.

But I drive around the speed limit. I do not take any stupid risks. There are a lot of men who do stupid things around me…

I think that A LOT of people in general are bad drivers. Not just women.

@KikiLaStrange@xanga - Yep, thats true. And that’s why insurance is less for girls. So Idk, what you guys are talking about. I think it’s just guys who say that because they know girls are actually better drivers, haha.

i’m a female driver and i dislike bad drivers in general (although i know of a lot of bad female drivers, i know of male ones too!). but i get defensive when males make comments like that. been driving for 4 years pretty much every day and long distance. no accidents. love to speed and weave in and out of traffic. i can drive a manual as well. i will challenge any guy in driving that pisses me off.

with that said, what is the definition of a “good driver” anyway? 1. the ability to be completely aware and the ability to react to any situation while in the car 2. following the rules and not taking risks. i guess there are two types of good drivers. you want to have a balance of the two.

@SeitekiChibiNeko@xanga - just like how that stereotype makes you laugh, your stereotype makes me laugh, I’m Asian, I haven’t lived in Flushing my whole life, I’m here now; there’s bad drivers of both sexes and any race, I’ve raced through downtown traffic, it’s not that hard, never tried driving a tractor or a truck, but I can get cars with summer tires out of blizzards and drive them safely whether it be front wheel drive or rear wheel drive only, and I’m pretty sure I can beat most average drivers out on the race track, don’t believe me? If you’re in the area, I can bring you any amount of track days public or private (including Monticello on certain days) and we can have a go at it.

People tell me I’m a good driver and they have yet to add “for a girl”.
Also, it’s because of girls like you, the ones that fix their hair and put on lip gloss or make up, at stop lights that only further “proves” girls are bad drivers. Pay attention to the road when you’re driving. You had plenty of time to fix yourself up at home.

People give you the look of death when you do retouches in your car because it’s a sign that you’re not paying attention to the road.  I’ve missed several lights because of these “minor” fix ups.  It’s just annoying, and it only furthers the stereotype that girls are bad drivers.

lol I’m a prettyy good driver. Not as daring as my boyfriend, but pretty good.

People tell me I too fast “for a girl” haha. I don’t do anything dangerous though (well, some people call pushing people out of the left lane dangerous, but hey, if I don’t get close to them, how else are they going to know that they have to get over!) whereas my few other friends that are girls that are good drivers are always trying extremely dangerous things.

i’m a pretty good driver…no accident nor ticket yet. 

I think girls are worse drivers than boys.
Just my opinion.
eh, I’m a guys-girl, not a girls-girl.

so I’m kind biased in my opinion (:

Not that some girls aren’t better drivers, just the majority of girls kinda suck.
I mean, I’m a better driver than my brother.
but my father is a better driver than my mother.

some guys are pricks when they’re driving.

@Seen_More_Spine_in_Jellyfish@xanga - @TheSpaceBass@xanga - @xa06@xanga - @raiyaya@xanga -

All of you gals are winners in my book

@SeitekiChibiNeko@xanga - woah. you drive tractors? that’s sooo cool ^.^

i’m asian and it’s the first time i’ve heard about the stereotype of asians being sucky drivers.

@KikiLaStrange@xanga - hahaha. this on’es good ^.^

@SliverLines@xanga - woah there, darling! i’m not like spending two whole minutes in doing these fixing up. it’s just like ten seconds, which wouldn’t really matter because i only do it when i know it’s safe to do so. i NEVER text or call or do anything stupid. as fas as i know, i know where i’m at with driving

Woooow.

I had this arguement with my boyfriend yesterday, and not until I read the comments to this blog do I actually AGREE with him. I’ve always seen driving as… well.. DRIVING. I’ve never seen it as hard or easy, just… doing it. I thought that’s just how it was. Usually, if someone stops for me to wave me on or let me over in traffic… it is a woman. If I see someone being a speed demon and cutting everyone off… it’s a man.

But now that I see “OMG i’m doing makeup and hair and EEEE I’m nervous” or “I’m not as good as my boyfriend.” I guess I just have to conceed. I must just be different.

Men and women are different and both sexes are prone to do things that are ill-advised while driving.

For instance, women are better multi-taskers than men so they’re more likely to do things like eat, put on make-up and talk while they’re driving. Men, on the other hand tend to be more reckless while driving so they’re usually the ones who speed and drive through lights.

Does every man speed and every woman not pay enough attention to the road ? Of course not.

I’m one of the best drivers I know.  But I do think most women are terrible drivers (if the idiots that cut me off and nearly kill people in my vicinity are any indication); there are very few exceptions in my experience, and my sister and mom happen to be great, too.  I think great driving skills run in my family because my two brothers are also spectactular, and so was my dad.

One of the best things you can learn to become a better driver is to drive stick shift seamlessly.    Oh, and fucking pay attention.  Get off your goddamn phone;  maybe you’d drive better if it was shoved up your ass.

My mom is a very good driver. I’m a “so so” okay driver, but I have a tendency to spazz… :/

@gottalovebeauty@xanga -  I just thought you meant that you spent time fixing yourself up like some people I know have… sorry about that. 

Anyone can be a bad driver, regardless of gender.  I’m a woman and have to admit i sometimes check my makeup in the mirror at stoplights but in general i’m pretty careful.  Some men in my city drive aggressively, as if their vehicles are weapons.  They like to show off.  I don’t think that’s appropriate.  I believe that anyone, male or female, who wants to drive like a maniac should just go to Germany and drive on the Autobahn where there’s no speed limit.

Yes, definitely true. No girl can drive a car well. There’s a gene that prevents it on the X chromosome.

@KikiLaStrange@xanga - Every 20 minutes seems kind of low.

I wonder why if guys are better drivers that insurance companies give women better rates simply because they are female?…. I can drive almost anything with wheels but I am constantly met by surprise from men who are shocked that a “girl” can handle a “mans vehicle”.

I have been told by many males that I drive well–not in those terms of course. They tell me that I don’t drive like a girl; they tell me I drive like a guy.. I don’t understand what “driving like a guy” really means.
I’m not “over cautious” like my mother and sister-and other females I know. I’m a car lover; I enjoy the power of my car/engine and use it to full extent.. I race and weave. But at the same time I’m ALWAYS doing stuff at a red light-lipgloss, hair mascara, (texting…), etc. and get stared at by the same people saying I don’t drive like a girl… I have been in one fender bender over a 5 year period.
My male friend drives like an old person who can’t see over the steering wheel and has been in NUMEROUS accidents over the same time period.
Why does male or female have anything to do with being a good driver? Both instances I mentioned are not ideal forms of driving. Being a good driver is being safe and alert/attentive; being a good driver is avoiding distractions in order to maintain safety. Being safe is being a good driver.
In my mind, as long as you can handle what you are doing while you are driving and be IN CONTROL of any situation that could happen, then you are a good driver.

“People give you the look of death when you
do retouches in your car because it’s a sign that you’re not paying
attention to the road.  I’ve missed several lights because of these
“minor” fix ups.  It’s just annoying, and it only furthers the
stereotype that girls are bad drivers.”

>> Guys will miss lights because they are staring at ____(fill in the blank)_____  beside the road. Who are they to judge about missing a light every now and then?

my boyfriend is a much more experienced driver than i am, but it really pisses me off when he’s sitting in the passenger seat as i drive. it’s one of those things that are like, i’m fine when i’m by myself but once he’s there, i begin to doubt myself because i know that there are some things that he can do that i just wouldn’t be able to pull off. he tries to give me tips but i just get really frustrated that eventually i just make him drive to shut him up. anyway, the point is, i’m a pretty decent driver, but sometimes when someone does a really stupid thing on the road, it is either a woman (young & old) or an old man. i can’t hate when i know i’ve done some questionable driving as well. I rarely see young men doing something stupid on the road ALTHOUGH — the ones who are pulled over and/or in accidents, i see are usually the young men.

I hate driving, but I think I am a better driver than my husband.  He drives like a little old lady.  He thinks I drive like a kamikaze or perhaps a bat out of hell.

I’m a horrible driver, I don’t think its because of my sex as much as I am very careless. 

My uncle likes to say that I’m a horrible driver just cause I’m a girl. However I am the best driver in my family, and the only one who hasn’t gotten in any accidents. I am also much better than my friends and my boyfriend. I know I sound full of myself, but I don’t drive too slow, or too fast, just a certain amt over the speed limit sometimes. I always stop at stop signs, and I don’t ride other cars, which is sooo annoying when it is done to me. Etc, etc etc. Anyways, if anything it’s men who are bad drivers compared to a lot of women.

I’ve been driving for 3 years and have had no accidents or warnings. I’m intimidated by lane changes on the highway or during rush hours, but I am a good driver. I’m not the kind of person to touch anything up while driving. When I’m driving, I’m driving and that’s all. All I do at red lights is take a sip of my drink.

When I’m in the car and my mom is driving, I notice that she always turns to talk to or make hand gestures to whoever she’s speaking to. If she has jerky driving, it’s because she’s way too into a conversation that’s behind or beside her when most of her focus should be on the road.

Working in a job with a drive through, I see a lot more crappy women drivers than I do men, for those reasons – “touching up”, at a stop or while driving (make yourself up before you leave, it’s not complicated), talking on the phone or to passengers, sometimes not even looking at the road.

If women were bad driver, then why do we get lower insurance rates for being female?

I would 110% say I’m a better driver than my best (guy) friend.  I am cautious but not annoyingly so, I can change lanes like a pro, drive highway without a second thought, come to smooth stops and accelerate just as smoothly, etc.  I don’t speed (too much) and I don’t drive recklessly.  My best friend, and actually most guys I know, speed like crazy, swerve all over the place, slam on their brakes or do rolling stops, go through “orange” lights without a second thought, etc.  Who’s really the better driver here?
Also, I’ve been in 2 accidents.  The first one was entirely not my fault – I drive an SUV and was turning onto a narrow bridge (with a 15mph speed limit) when a sports car (male driver from what I could see) going at least 45 came zooming across the bridge half in my lane.  My choice was to hit the moving car or hit the bridge.  I hit the bridge.  The second time I was driving on a very narrow street with cars parked on both sides and misjudged the width of my SUV, thinking I could fit when I couldn’t.  Yes, it was my fault.  Yes, I misjudged.  For some reason, these 2 accidents make me a “worse” driver than my best friend, who smashed his car into a fence while speeding around a turn in the pouring rain and has paid over $300 in speeding tickets.  Go figure.

I hate how people say “for a girl.” -_- It pisses me off all the time. I mean, we can do whatever we want to do. 

I drive on 8 lanes of interstate madness in Atlanta every day, and I have to say that I see more problems with female drivers than male drivers.  I’d say men are worse for weaving in and out of traffic, tailgating when they get impatient, etc.  But women are FAR WORSE about applying makeup, text messaging, talking on the phone, playing the radio, turning around to yell at their kids, goofing off with their friends, etc.  It drives me insane.  I’ve been rear-ended twice in the last 5 years, both times by women (one text messaging and one talking on the phone and writing stuff down).  I’m pregnant now, and my tolerance is basically none.  So help me, if someone causes an accident and involves me over something stupid, male or female, while I’m pregnant or have my kid in the car, I’m likely to go to jail over my reaction.  Stereotypes suck, but they aren’t always that far off.  Put the phone down, do your hair and makeup at home, and focus on the road.  Your every move while you’re driving effects lives around you.  Not only do you need to be responsible for the way you drive, you need to be aware of those around you who are doing a worse job than you are.

i think it’s fair to say girls are comparatively weaker drivers. just as men are comparatively weaker in knitting that kind of stuff

@SliverLines@xanga - no harm done, dear

no…unless shes butch.  haha jk but i thought asians were the bad drivers not women.  its not fair to say “all women” are bad drivers cause i’ve seen some BAD drivers and they werent women or asian.  bad driving isnt by nationality its by individual and personality.  sometimes you could tell a lot from somebodys driving skills or lack of.

The only girls I hate is they are in the car, do make up, text, do their hair, talk on the phone, while driving.  I think that is stupid.

It annoys me as well.

I like to boast to one of my guy friends that I have never had a speeding ticket (not that I don’t deserve one or two but I have yet to get one) I really hate that people look at me and just assume that I’m a bad driver. I’ve done the touch ups too, and the singing along to the radio, and I get the strangest looks! It’s crazy….