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A very small survey of people of different ages suggests that there are age and gender differences in the acceptance of riding in automated cars. In summary, 2,600 people in the US replied and of them 38% of the men and just 16% of women would be happy to ride in an automated vehicle. About a quarter of respondents said they would feel safe in a driverless car while around two thirds said they would not travel unless there was a driver. No mention was made about their opinions of sharing the road with these massive projectiles when driving themselves in traditional cars.
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Logicians have but ill defined
As rational the human kind.
Logic, they say, belongs to man,
But let them prove it if they can.
-- Oliver Goldsmith
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 01 2018, @06:46PM (12 children)
I think you've interpreted the zeitgeist incorrectly. Here, let me help by posting a few simple heuristics.
1.) If gender difference D makes women look more responsible, it will be all over the news, women will get more privileges, and men will have rights stripped from them.
2.) If gender difference D makes men look more responsible, mentioning it will be criminal and evidence of misogyny.
3.) Everybody will whine, whine, whine about how gender differences A, B, C, D, E, F, G, etc prove that men and women are different, but the instant transsexuals come up, then cognitive dissonance kicks into overdrive, and all gender differences cease to exist or else become merely signs of mental illness.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday February 01 2018, @09:40PM (11 children)
Show me on the dolly where the mean lady touched you, snowflake.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 4, Funny) by insanumingenium on Thursday February 01 2018, @11:50PM (10 children)
I assume you mean where the mean lady refused to touch you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @12:01AM (3 children)
And here we have a perfect little capsule of how men and women are indeed different. It might be genetic, it might be socialization, it might be both, but it's profound no matter how it came about.
Let's see if "that lady our mothers warned us about" even gets it.
(Score: 2) by insanumingenium on Friday February 02 2018, @12:25AM (2 children)
Only an idiot would deny there are differences between the sexes. Most of the crowd here only eat paste because they enjoy the texture.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @12:51AM (1 child)
As I said, you'll say this right up until the topic of transsexuals comes up (and by transsexuals, we mean she-males, the whole empire of 'em).
Then suddenly, there are no differences between the sexes and gender is a social construct!
(Score: 2) by insanumingenium on Friday February 02 2018, @05:08PM
Is that straw man physically attractive to you, is that why you keep holding it so high?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @12:48AM (4 children)
Well, actually Azuma is correct in this instance. It would be where the mean lady touched me.
Agh, my kingdom to be attracted to women.... But alas, this life I get to experience being attractive to women (both genders actually) while finding women sexually repulsive. (I'm at an extreme on the Kinsey scale [wikipedia.org].)
To put in perspective: I'm sure that all Azuma needs is a good cock inside her. The feeling that statement would evoke in her is likely similar to the feeling that is evoked in me by the prospect of intimate contact with a woman.
Nobody will care, but the responses here do illustrate the point I was cynically making. In fact, even suggesting that a lesbian is less of a person because she is not a sexual object for men will get me modded troll. Suggesting that I am nothing more than a sexual object for women got parent comment modded insightful.
I'd shoot myself (honestly, I don't want to be on this planet right now), but they tell me that's generally not the best way to move on to the next life.
On the other hand, I understand that after suicide, you kind of sit in limbo until your lifespan is up. So if I shot myself, I could have maybe somewhere between 30-50 years of peace and quiet in limbo before moving on to the summerland. Maybe suicide isn't so bad after all, especially compared to living on a planet where a bunch of semi-sentient apes elected a sexually harassing asshole pussy-grabbing rapist to the most powerful office in the whole fucking star system.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday February 02 2018, @05:05AM (2 children)
I wouldn't mind a good cock if it were attached to a woman. That doesn't happen in real life, sadly. Futanari are not a thing, though given the repulsive monsters some people draw, maybe that's a good thing.
And re: suicide, do NOT shoot yourself or otherwise do it; "limbo" as you put it is not peaceful. You get stuck to your body until it decays, which is somehow painful on the spiritual level, then usually get booted back into a similar type of life that led to the suicide in the first place.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @08:34PM
A good cock [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @11:00PM
Sorry, that was a mis-judged attempt at humour.
(Score: 2) by insanumingenium on Friday February 02 2018, @06:23PM
I didn't suggest you are nothing more than a sexual object for women, I made a crass joke about AC(s) not being attractive to women, kind of the exact opposite of how you read it. All ACs are the same basement dwelling neckbeard who hasn't seen daylight in months right?
At the risk or repeating myself, get help, it can get better, and if someone is assaulting you as you seem to be implying, they are the worst kind of shit.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday February 02 2018, @02:03PM
I have read some pay double for that.
Washington DC delenda est.