I've seen stereotypes of steely resolve and such bullshit, some nonsense about being better at spatial thinking etc, but I'm pretty sure it's just a fem wet dream of superiority.
You can thank Heinlein for the spatial thinking bs. It's not based on science but entered the zeitgeist after he and a bunch of copycats used it as a trope to justify having women in space
Which is funny because spatial thinking seems to be where women struggle the most when driving. If you ever see a car not going with the flow of traffic and kinda sitting in no-man's land being passed on both sides...
...it's usually a woman in my experience. Or someone on the phone. Phones are the worst, too.
Sometimes its some 80 year old who REALLY should have quit driving when she stoped being able to do the crossword puzzle three years ago because she couldn't see the little boxes, but she's totally capable of moving a few tons of steel at 60 mph amongst other flying metal boxes because retesting the elderly is abusive.
I've seen stereotypes of steely resolve and such bullshit
I'm willing to bet that stems from a misreading of a panic response that seems to be more common in women. Everything points to a much higher proportion of women's response to a critical situation is to first just straight up freeze for a few moments, then make the same poorly thought out panic choice someone else might have made immediately, just in a less timely fashion.
It'd be easy to interpret that first part as taking time to calculate a response, if you just ignore the outcomes of the second part being worse not better.
Just look at all the shootings by female cops, waaay too many of them start with them standing around doing nothing whilst their male partner reacts first, then they pull their gun because things got out of hand whilst they did nothing to help the non-lethal response stick, and in the panic turn to lethal force. Or in one tragicomic version, stand around doing nothing, finally decide to take non-lethal action, but panic and accidentally draw and shoot her firearm instead.
I've seen stereotypes of steely resolve and such bullshit, some nonsense about being better at spatial thinking etc, but I'm pretty sure it's just a fem wet dream of superiority.
You can thank Heinlein for the spatial thinking bs. It's not based on science but entered the zeitgeist after he and a bunch of copycats used it as a trope to justify having women in space
I haven't read starship troopers in so long I'd plum forgotten
He also said the main reason was the morale boost.
No one ever told my sister that girls are better at spatial thinking when she drives.
Which is funny because spatial thinking seems to be where women struggle the most when driving. If you ever see a car not going with the flow of traffic and kinda sitting in no-man's land being passed on both sides...
...it's usually a woman in my experience. Or someone on the phone. Phones are the worst, too.
I would hope you're not checking Twitter in a fighter jet, though.
I can see what a woman's cockpit would look like now...
https://i.imgur.com/hER8ysd.png
Sometimes its some 80 year old who REALLY should have quit driving when she stoped being able to do the crossword puzzle three years ago because she couldn't see the little boxes, but she's totally capable of moving a few tons of steel at 60 mph amongst other flying metal boxes because retesting the elderly is abusive.
Don't make me laugh
You just try and stop me!
God damn it lol
I'm willing to bet that stems from a misreading of a panic response that seems to be more common in women. Everything points to a much higher proportion of women's response to a critical situation is to first just straight up freeze for a few moments, then make the same poorly thought out panic choice someone else might have made immediately, just in a less timely fashion.
It'd be easy to interpret that first part as taking time to calculate a response, if you just ignore the outcomes of the second part being worse not better.
Just look at all the shootings by female cops, waaay too many of them start with them standing around doing nothing whilst their male partner reacts first, then they pull their gun because things got out of hand whilst they did nothing to help the non-lethal response stick, and in the panic turn to lethal force. Or in one tragicomic version, stand around doing nothing, finally decide to take non-lethal action, but panic and accidentally draw and shoot her firearm instead.