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    Women drivers are the best... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8432887.stm

    The parking bays are one metre (3ft) wider than normal spaces, he said.

    Sorry, but if you're that bad at driving then perhaps you shouldn't be doing it.
    Dec 28, 2009 12:31pm PST
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    Women drivers are the best... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8432887.stm The parking ba : inchwideThis person is cool!

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      woman + asian + looks like she's on a cell phone. not a whole lot going in her favor in the "good driver... : KorbanThis person is cool!
      • hahahah : yacoub35
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      how patronizing of you, china. : pointyelbows
      • very : kbnerdThis person is cool!
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      lmao that's hilarious. china has better capitalism than we do. if someone launched parking spots and serv... : DownforceThis person is cool!
      • This looks like something from the Onion: "Official Wang Zheng told AFP news agency the car park was mean : LoioshDwaggieThis person is cool!
      • Yeah, people in China are going to rise up against the government about segregated parking. : lightsam
    • should build wider roads as well for them. Dumb. : ghost hacker
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      Finally a country with some common sense. : BlackdawggThis person is cool!
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        Common sense would be not to let them drive in the first place. : ghost hacker
        • god bless saudi arabia : proclone1This person is cool!
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          But then you'd have to drive them to the grocery store and shop with them : BlackdawggThis person is cool!
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            They can walk. : mrvandelay
            • Cuts down on the time they could be cooking and cleaning >:( : BlackdawggThis person is cool!
    • My friend's wife is from Hong Kong and is pretty much the living embodiment of the Asian woman driver ste : ColoradoCNC
    • Hey guys, I found a picture of the parking lot olol http://airspace1.com/images/women-only_parking_lot2.... : GnowknaymeThis person is cool!
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      Holy shit that's offensive. What ignorant cocksucker came up with this horrible idea? : the city
      • the city. : YerMothah
      • the one who has his car dinged every time he parked beside a chick : oldschoolbob-oThis person is cool!
      • Someone that was not ignorant. : sheepraperThis person is cool!
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        Actually there was just a study (undertaken by a woman who wanted to prove gender equality, naturally) th... : qsylvr
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          interesting. any conclusions as to why? did the women drive less than the men (on average) or something? : dahanese
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            oh, and this is not to discount your last paragraph - but is that the only reason they had? : dahanese
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              I've read numerous books that cite studies which demonstrate or suggest sex differences in cognition. Th... : WhatIsThisFor
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                yeah, i get that. i'm wondering if there is a difference in the people in the study too. like - are these... : dahanese
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                  If it was a decent study (and it sounds like it was), then yea, they used a variety of people with differ... : aggressorThis person is cool!
                  • i want to read it! if anyone has a link to the summary let me know. also i think the original article... : dahanese
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                  The study included 65 people of different ages. It was a reasonably scientific undertaking with universi... : qsylvr
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                    65 people seems like a really low number to me, but i have no idea how many you need to be scientifically... : dahanese
                    • That sounds to be about the average number of people they use for clinical trials of new medicines and tr... : Sailor of Fortune
          • I dunno the details, it was mangled in press reporting and I haven't seen the original study. You can go... : qsylvr
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          my gf is amazing at parking and driving in general, its nice to see the exception to the rule. : filthysockThis person is cool!
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            yeah, i kick ass at parallel parking because i practiced so much when i was 16. i know a lot of really ba... : dahanese
            • You learned to drive on the east coast, right? Parallel parking seems to be an east coast specialty. I ... : qsylvr
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          I don't even want to get into how generally wrong this is. A lot of it probably has to do with socializa... : the city
          • I agree that setting up special "parking spaces for women" is stupid and a bad idea, but there is tons of... : qsylvr
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        No more offensive than having different restrooms. : Cihte
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          what : maullaThis person is cool!
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            Women's restrooms in a lot of places are markedly different from men's. They can have basically a second... : bipolarThis person is cool!
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              that's at the really upscale places and i think that's because a lot of women fuck around with their make... : dahanese
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                Since women get a lounge in their restrooms, in the name of equality I demand men get a full-service bar ... : bipolarThis person is cool!
                • fuck that shit if that happens i'm using your bathroom. : dahanese
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        How is it offensive? Have you ever seen a woman try to parallel park? That shit ain't pretty. : MagicWishMonkey
        • the massive generalization patrol will be here momentarily. : DonkeyPopsicleThis person is cool!
    • Haha, "different sense of distance". That's certainly a diplomatic way of putting it. : uncleanmonkey
    • lol that's awesome : AlexXdude
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      This makes perfect sense. If people would just admit that they are DIFFERENT not unequal but different an... : theghostofsmdever
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        individually that's great. genderwide, not so great. pretty shitty in fact. : EvilDolemiteThis person is cool!
        • True, the parking lot should be open to retards of both sexes. : theghostofsmdever
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          Why not if it's based on empirical examination? : WhatIsThisFor
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            how about racial discrimination based on empirical examination while we're at it? : dirge23
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              serious answer: whatever incidental efficiency you might get from measuring the empirical differences bet... : dirge23
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                In America, society is already set up that way so I'm not sure what you're talking about. : WhatIsThisFor
                • example? : dirge23
                • Although many of the rules here are not necessarily empirically based. : WhatIsThisFor
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            Tests themselves can be flawed as. It's not scientifically supported fact that women are bad drivers. ... : the city
            • as : the city
        • yeah women should use urinals too : SixcosThis person is cool!
      • i admit that as a white guy i need to sit at front of the bus, i don't have the well-developed musculatur... : dirge23
      • People are unequal and always will be. Anyone who says men and women are equal are nuts. Men and women... : sheepraperThis person is cool!
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      fuck that I want wider parking spaces for ME : JunoThis person is cool!
      • Some of the spaces out front at work are extra wide. It's fucking nice. Especially when I got my new car.... : DarkWolf5This person is cool!