Also, the seat belt rides up to my throat and I have keep pulling it down (I’m only 5'3").  I don’t even want to imagine the neck injuries I will sustain if I’m in a serious car accident.

They pretty much only talk about heart attack symptoms in men at all times, never mention women’s symptoms. Sorry to go off topic, it’s just another one of those things that drives me nuts about sexism in society in general.

Tilt/telescoping steering wheels have been common for a good while now. Adjustable pedals are less common, but especially in bigger vehicles they probably should become more common.

Back when Zoe Saldana got cast as Nina Simone and had to have all those prosthetics on her face, I thought even Nina Simone wouldn’t get cast as Nina Simone in her own biopic.

If cars are having these features now, that definitely needs to be advertised more, but be sure to notice that the blame here is not with women drivers. Even doing everything possible to sit as far from the steering wheel as physically possible, at 5'1", I’m never going to be able to position myself in a way that’s…

the largest risk category is actually males over the average 1950s male (pretty much everyone).

The ‘manhole’ thing is silly, but getting rid of he/his, policeman, fireman, etc in official documents is worth the minimal cost.  Nobody is clamoring to get the term ‘manhole’ changed, but if you’re going to go through all of these documents and make updates you might as well update everything.

Even if they wanted to use a larger female dummy, it just doesn’t exist

The. Standards. Were. Designed. Around. Male. Averages.

As someone who works in the auto industry, this is terribly mis-informed. First of all, you absolutely can’t make the car perfectly safe for the entire range of human body types.

They don’t have to optimize for the test only. They have the option of satisfying the test for the dummy size specified by the NHTSA *as well as* other body types. That costs extra money, so they don’t. Until we find a way to assign value to doing the right thing in this country (as opposed to making the most money),…

If that’s how he acts under stress, perhaps he needs to have a less stressful job, lest this kind of thing happen again (pretending that that explanation holds any water, which it most surely does not)?

I know! Like, can I use that defense for anything? “Look, I was under a lot of stress, and I got a little drunk, and I fell victim to the temptation to murder a stockbroker. But I come from a good family, right?”

Plus, the use of the word “temptation” in the first place is implying that she somehow was alluring this poor upstanding boy into doing something oh-so-naughty, that she participated in her own rape.

Also is a pretty clear indicator that he shouldn’t become a doctor. 

A former medical student who raped an unconscious woman “availed himself of an opportunity” he could not resist due to the stress of “leading an exemplary life,” his lawyer has argued.

Same here. Plus, there’s my propensity for telling assholes to eat a bag of dicks. That’s probably frowned upon in judges.

Quotes from the defense attorney like the ones pulled above are the reason why I could never be a judge. My facial expressions when someone tried to pull that on me would give away my complete and total lack of impartiality.

They are all good guys, until they are not.

argued that his client fell victim to temptation