The World's First Female Crash Test Dummy
Robert Paul Reyes
January 12, 2006
"Women and children first" is axiomatic, nobody ever questions the morality or logic of this commonly heard phrase.
Men are expendable; men are cannon fodder; men are of little value.
In all of recorded history there has never been a female crash test dummy. People are OK with the image of a male crash test dummy flying through a windshield, but horror or horrors we can't have a female crash test dummy decapitated.
In popular culture men are portrayed as dummies who are incapable of doing anything more complicated than clicking a remote or crashing through a windshield.
In a great step forward in evolution, the first female dummy for use in car safety tests is being developed in Sweden.
Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg is researching how a female body moves as a first step in creating the dummy. Are these egghead researchers slumming in nightclubs to study females dancing the night away?
Leave it to secular Sweden to take this revolutionary step, here in the States televangelists like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson would decry female dummies as the brides of Satan.
Thank goodness we will soon have a female crash test dummy, but can we finally get a sit-com dad who is not a total idiot?
Men are expendable; men are cannon fodder; men are of little value.
In all of recorded history there has never been a female crash test dummy. People are OK with the image of a male crash test dummy flying through a windshield, but horror or horrors we can't have a female crash test dummy decapitated.
In popular culture men are portrayed as dummies who are incapable of doing anything more complicated than clicking a remote or crashing through a windshield.
In a great step forward in evolution, the first female dummy for use in car safety tests is being developed in Sweden.
Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg is researching how a female body moves as a first step in creating the dummy. Are these egghead researchers slumming in nightclubs to study females dancing the night away?
Leave it to secular Sweden to take this revolutionary step, here in the States televangelists like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson would decry female dummies as the brides of Satan.
Thank goodness we will soon have a female crash test dummy, but can we finally get a sit-com dad who is not a total idiot?
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