Can you believe it’s been four and a half+ years since that asshat?

Digital tire pressure gauge could’ve prevented this disaster.

I typically would attend this C&C, though I had other plans this past week. There’s normally police in attendance and down the street to try and stop this from happening.

You just described my life as an engineer. My daughter is used to this treatment because she graduated with her BSME in 2010. You learn to either ignore it or you troll them when it happens. Complaining seldom does any good because the managers are often just as sexist and the people doing it know the boss will cover…

So a weirdly unique thing about being transgender (and being stealth with it to a degree in real life and some social media) is that you have the opportunity to experience things on “both sides”.

How about women in the automotive industry who get this treatment in real life? This stuff is not confined to keyboard warriors and trolls on the internet. I am a woman in automotive sales (Internet sales manager at a dealership). The following happen to me on a near-daily basis:

If you’re that sensitive about how people online treat you, a straight white male - you wouldn’t last 30 seconds being literally any other gender, race or sexual orientation in literally any real world or internet situation without having a full-on mental breakdown.

Hey, Eddie. You say you’re not being disingenuous, so I’ll take you at your word. Few things and real quick. Okay... 

Regrettably, I can only give this one star.

I haven’t had the chance to listen to the podcast, but as a female who comments quite a bit on here, thank you for writing this and agreeing to discuss it on the podcast. This needs to be said, having a penis, or identifying as male doesn’t mean you know jack about cars, or at least not more than any woman. Leave…

While this may sound ridiculous, pretend to be a woman online for awhile. To be most accurate, join a vehicle forum for something you own or are interested in, see how they treat you... Trust me, they will act like you are a complete moron and cannot understand simple things, it isn’t the same as being trolled as a…

*clicks on article written for people like me, skips the video and text content, goes directly to the comment section to do the thing that the people who created the content to tell me not to do*

Hey Eddie! I was reading Alanis’s piece because holy crap the vitriol she and her fellow women car journalists get compared to the stuff I get as a woman covering tech and nerd stuff is incredible (and I love her coverage of the subject).

“I don’t think a woman being trolled because she’s a woman is all that different than any other person being trolled for whatever physical attribute they have that some dbag can latch onto.”

I am a white, CIS gendered male, and I have literally never been trolled for any physical attribute. Never.

There is a category…

That’s not the point though. I recall more than one conversation here where Stef would have men posting “send me your contact info” when she was just trying to joke with the rest of us.

“If you’re overweight, they’re going to fuck with you about being fat. If you’re black, they’re going to get you about that. If you’re a woman... You see where I’m going here.”

It’s not just the internet. Women get treated differently face to face too.

But the way in which women and female-presenting people get trolled and abused online is different. Their experience, expertise and advice gets discounted on the basis that they are women. They get called all sorts of gendered slurs, and plenty of unsolicited offers for sex. Their very existence in this arena is…

No. It’s not just run of the mill trolling. 

You gotta bring his gender into it.