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I Don’t Know Why Women Keep Laughing at Me When I’m Out Driving my Tesla Cybertruck (www.torquenews.com)
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[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 232 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I was taking a right turn out of a convenience store driveway the other day, waiting for the traffic to go by, and noticed the driver, a female, was apparently laughing hysterically at my truck. She was alone, pointing at my truck and laughing hard.

a female

Yeah, sounds like a Cyber truck owner

[–] dan@upvote.au 45 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It seems like there's a correlation between people that refer to women as "females" and people that don't treat women well.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's almost like using a term typically reserved for livestock betrays that you see women as below you.

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Nah, don't lump farmers and such into this, please. Cows and bulls, hens and roosters, nannys and billys, sows and boars. There are also words for modified gender/castration similar to agender: steer, stoat, gelding, bellwether.

[–] confusedbytheBasics@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Depending on the situation it can be fun to ask, "A female what?" Try to get them to say human.

[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm almost sad I'll never be able to point and laugh at one. The Cybertruck is so badly built, it'll never be allowed on European roads.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago

That’s a big reason I shake my head at them when I see one. Brescia that are an affront to the collective safety of the rest of us.

I cycle (though at this point I try to stay off busy roads and on divided lanes), and the thought of a collision with one of these is terrifying.

I shake my head at jacked up bro dozers the same way. They all scream insecurity.