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    Men ARE better than women at parking

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    Men ARE better than women at parking: Feminist scientists
    proves what sexist motorists have known all along


    Male drivers have long boasted they are superior to women,
    particularly when it comes to parking.

    And now their claims have been borne out by the first scientific
    study into the subject.

    Psychologists asked 65 volunteers to park a £23,000 Audi
    repeatedly in a sealed-off university car park.

    The results, which are bound to reignite long-running arguments
    between couples, found that women took up to 20 seconds longer to park in the same space.

    But although they were more cautious about edging into position, it did not make them any more accurate, and they tended to end up much closer to the edge of the bays than the male drivers.

    Scientists from Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany, found men were better at driving both head-on into the space and reversing into it.

    However, the biggest difference was in parallel parking, where men were found to be five per cent better in their handling and positioning of the vehicle.

    Researchers concluded the men had better co-ordination and spatial awareness because their brains could process the changing speed and position of the car more quickly.

    Dr Claudia Wolf, who co-wrote the study, said she was prompted to investigate the subject after getting fed up with chauvinistic jokes about female drivers .

    She told The Mail on Sunday: ‘These prejudices exist and as a scientist I decided to find out if they are true or based on myth.

    ‘I don’t think that feminism or the cause of women is in any way set back by these findings. It only proves what previous studies about the spatial differences between men and women have shown.

    ‘Besides, it is not as if there was a massive failing by women. It is just about parking - not the triumph of men over women.’

    The drivers - who had varying degrees of driving experience, but were of similar ages and intelligence - were asked to park an Audi A6 Limousine automatic, a large, family saloon, in a 15ft by 6ft space.

    The scientists measured both the time between the car’s first movement and the driver turning off the engine and how close the car ended up to the white tape marking out the bays. The more central the car ended up in the space, the better.

    The psychologists admitted they were surprised that females’ extra caution did not bring better results.

    Their paper noted: ‘The marked difference in parking duration could be explained in terms of general driving habits. Several studies prove that men take greater driving risks.

    ‘However, a sex difference in riskassessment leading to women parking more cautiously, and thus more slowly, does not explain why women’s final parking position was less accurate than men’s, especially for parallel parking. Slower driving should lead to a better and not worse result.’

    Last night, feminist author Germaine Greer admitted that men were better parkers than women, but criticised the scientists for undertaking the ‘pointless’ study.

    She said: ‘I can believe that men were proven to have a very insignificant advantage in spatial awareness when it comes to parking.

    'My mum parked appallingly, but that’s because my father did not let her drive very often and she was frightened in the car.

    'You must remember that women also have bosoms which makes it very difficult to turn around.

    ‘However, did we really need to know this? Should we now stop women from parking? Of course not. These scientists were just trying to provoke people like me and it sounds like an extreme waste of resources.’




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    "However, did we really need to know this? Should we now stop women from parking? Of course not. These scientists were just trying to provoke people like me and it sounds like an extreme waste of resources."

    This woman mentioned in the article mentions wasted resources. I wonder how many resources are wasted on things just as stupid if not worse on behalf of feminists.



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    Feminism and welfare are a bigger waste of resources. Foreign aid is another one, offering asylum another one. I doubt she wants any of these done away with.


     
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    Feminism and welfare are a bigger waste of resources. Foreign aid is another one, offering asylum another one. I doubt she wants any of these done away with.
    Of course she wouldn't be concerned with those very things that ensure her own miserable and pathetic survival.



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    Female scientist finally proves who's best at parking - Greer not happy

    Men really ARE better at parking... and that's a woman professor talking | Mail Online

    Bonus whiny quote from Greer at the end blaming everything on the fact women have breasts!



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    Re: Female scientist finally proves who's best at parking - Greer not happy

    Let the trollop throw her hissy fits!



    That's the thing you've got to love about the media, they never run out of mendacious, anti male bull shit to print!



     
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    Re: Female scientist finally proves who's best at parking - Greer not happy

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    Let the trollop throw her hissy fits!



    That's the thing you've got to love about the media, they never run out of mendacious, anti male bull shit to print!
    They forgot to mention they were talking about junk scientists. Funny enough, women who take risks also take large risks, if not larger, because they think they must show that a 'woman can do anything a man can and even better'.


     
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    Re: Female scientist finally proves who's best at parking - Greer not happy

    ""men's hormones""

    are ! etc etc stc

    scientifically proved !! oh yeah !!!!


    Herr Hitler scientifically proved that Aryans were the master race hahhah

    some scientists ( maybe from misandrist feminit studies ) can prove what ever they presume to conclude before commencing their scientific studies ahhahha

    whenever Greer muscles on issues concerning men, in she puts the kiss of death on the issue - then folk knows it is suss; she is the core of chop logic driving feminitism and its indigenous raft of claptrap like the mess of space junk that surrounded Apollo 13 as it hurtled through space in April 1973



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    Re: Female scientist finally proves who's best at parking - Greer not happy

    Amazing how it takes for a FEMALE Scientist to prove this, for Germaine Sneer to acknowledge it; well, she's not going to disagree with any member of her own precious gender, after all, is she; that'd be misogynistic.....



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    They forgot to mention they were talking about junk scientists. Funny enough, women who take risks also take large risks, if not larger, because they think they must show that a 'woman can do anything a man can and even better'.
    Yeah, what I always found interesting is how they imitate exclusively the negative male behaviours.



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    It's good they could find something simple for these female scientist to do. For most of us it doesn't take such silly studies to determine the facts. Even my wife knows men are better drivers and better at many things. She doesn't throw tandrums over the facts or try ot explain them away.

    It's because of the tits!
    I'd disagree here. This study might seem silly, but the fact is that feminists will argue about any skill or ability no matter how seemingly obvious and abundant the evidence around us.

    Thus in our feminist dominated environment such a study is essential.

    Of course on top of that a study such of this is very much a male thing to do. Men tend to appreciate hard evidence and facts, whereas women are a more emotional approach to things and like to express how they feel about an issue.

    Men have very few allies in this world - we really can't afford to be criticising a female scientist who actually does something positive, evne though ti is somewhat trivial.

    Greer's anger and her ridiculous comments have very much vindicated the scientist and shown the study is perhaps more useful than one might have thought. Anything that makes a gender feminist look even more stupid than usual surely has to be hugely admired?



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    Re: Men ARE better than women at parking

    In related news:

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    China shopping centre builds 'car park for women'


    The shopping centre hopes to appeal to China's women drivers

    A shopping centre in China's Hebei province has built a car park with wider spaces that it says is designed especially to suit women drivers.
    The women-only car park in Shijiazhuang city is also painted in pink and light purple to appeal to female tastes.
    Official Wang Zheng told AFP news agency the car park was meant to cater to women's "strong sense of colour and different sense of distance".
    The parking bays are one metre (3ft) wider than normal spaces, he said.



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    A meter wider! Ok so many women don't park so well but they're not all that bad, from that study it would suggest perhaps half a meter might be needed maximum.

    The few women who do indeed need the extra meter not to mention guidance from the attendants really aren't safe enough to to be driving and should simply be banned form the roads before they casue a serious accident.

    Why do we have to engineer everything to suit the most idiotic people in society? Just think how many extra spaces you could have if they were all a normal size.



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    Re: Men ARE better than women at parking

    I have to admit that this study does in a way simply point out the obvious......Most women suck ass at DRIVING in general!

    I really don't know how to put this, but it seems to me that in general, women are less coordinated, or to be blunt quite clumsy in comparison with the average MAN at tasks like this...

    I don't think its anything to do with physical ability either....There attention just never seems to be there as much as it should....They get flustered way to easy....

    This is obvious to anyone who ever had to work with women in fast paced jobs, such as fast food, for instance,or any kitchen for that matter....At my job we have had countless female cooks, ONLY ONE, to date was able to handle the pace and stress of the job, over the 10 years I have worked there...Its not that they couldn't cook at all, some of them actually did make decent food, it just that they cant get the dam food out the window very fast and cant handle more than 5-6 tickets at a time....In short once it gets busy they make a LOT of mistakes and they get flustered, drop stuff, trip over things.......etc

    Its really quite aggravating....Never to this day have I seen a guy that was 1/2 as bad at being a "line cook" or "short order cook".


     
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    A small difference is nothing to write home about.

    Now for a really big difference where men CAN claim to be far better than women, is in Farting.

    It can't be put down to lungs, upper body strength, Adams Apples or vocal chords. It is a natural function common to men and women rather than a 'driving' skill to be learned. But chaps can make superb farts, loud and sonorous, silent and deadly, and women, well, let's face it, most women try to pretend that they never fart.

    No contest.



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