not even pretending anymore

[solarbird]

Remember when GamerGaters at least pretended it wasn't all about a visceral loathing of women? Enjoy - if that's the word for it - "GPS and the Turn-By-Turn War on Men," wherein GamerGater Milo Yiannopoulos uses his first "tech" column on Breitbart to praise Saudi Arabia for barring women from driving, and writes about how GPS systems are emasculating, particularly "nagging and whinging" "female voice" GPSes.

Comments

[vatine]

What the actual what?

I just tried to find some actual stats giving a hint one way or another, but have not yet found anything compelling, but out of [dateline 2011-11-02] 28 798 licensed motorsport people in Sweden, 1 982 were female.

Aha! This link (again, Swedish statistics, since tabulating seems to be a national trait) indicates that men are more likely to get killed or injured in road traffic accidents. However, if we make the assumption that it's typically the owner of a car driving it, the numbers are less compelling (191 male / 79 female killed, IIRC; with 2 347 817 male-owned and 1 257 473 female-owned passenger cars in the same year).

I'd class that as "no compelling evidence either way".

[solarbird]

It's 100% bullshit. It's not even "no compelling evidence" - what evidence actually exists in numbers in the USA (and it does exist) says women are less likely, not more, to cause automotive accidents, in every age group, adjusted to population. (Which, in case some misogynist asshat comes looking, actually adjusts the raw data to numbers that look better for men, as there are slightly more women than men in the USA.)

He's just a misogynist.

That article he links to in the first paragraph where he references his made-up derogatory term for women driving? It's to his own article. He made it up himself, and is trying to front it as some sort of established thing, to make himself look more authoritative. It's the kind of thing the American fundamentalist movement does all the time, only they have more practice at it so it's a less transparent deception. But even so - the overwhelming majority of people won't click to see that, so hey, it works even done badly.

[vatine]

I know there is (maybe was?) at least one UK insurance company that issued insurance policies only to female drivers, in order to push the premium down.

[enotsola]

It's... about ethics in GPS voices?

[vatine]

It's about hatethics in blogging?