AIBU to feel f****d off with a world built for men?

[DarjeelingDarllng]

I read** this article with increasing horror.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/feb/23/truth-world-built-for-men-car-crashes?CMP=ShareiOSAppp_Other

Many parts I recognise; the phone for example, I have a better camera but the phone is larger so harder to actually use.

I struggle to sit on most chairs easily as my feet don't touch the floor; this has caused some back issues.

I've known that most medical research has always been done on white men aged around 25.

The 'gender neutral' toilet thing is just obvious.

This quote, below, pissed me off the most, not least that there was once an AIBU where a pregnant woman was querying at what point did everyone stop driving as she was really struggling. 70% of people (roughly) said, just get on with it. The rest agreed it was challenging.

I very sadly know of a woman who was involved in a minor crash a week before her due date; the baby died.

The situation is even worse for pregnant women. Although a pregnant crash-test dummy was created back in 1996, testing with it is still not government-mandated either in the US or in the EU. In fact, even though car crashes are the No 1 cause of foetal death related to maternal trauma, we haven’t yet developed a seatbelt that works for pregnant women. Research from 2004 suggests that pregnant women should use the standard seatbelt; but 62% of third-trimester pregnant women don’t fit that design.

I came on to say spy hole in the door too! I'm 5ft 6 and I'm not tall enough for ours

Eye opening article. I was shocked at the police stab jackets and how uncomfortable/ painful they are for woman officers. Just expected to get on with it I suppose

The classroom board thing is totally true as well. I’ve never thought about it before but it blows my mind. I have never been able to reach the top third of any board I’ve ever used. I stood on a chair in my first classroom if I needed extra space!

Rolling boards were pretty revolutionary. Write at a comfortable height, then scroll up.

Getting a Bosch power drill in and out of the charger is a bugger, and I don't have small hands, just not hands as big as the average man.

@SinkGirl

Didn't know that, in fact I've done a lot of looking for relief from period cramps and never heard it at all. Which is probably the whole idea, more important for men to be assisted to get their end away than women to not suffer.

As a very erm, petite 4ft9 woman I am fairly aware of the world being built for people at least six inches taller than me but that Viagra post has made me actually really livid. My periods are horrendous (enough to have been on some kind of hormonal contraception to stop them completely since I was 12, so 16 years and counting). Even prescription strength painkillers don't touch the sides.

The thought that it could be helped by viagra but they didn't want to fund it, I could honestly weep.

Waiting for MRAs to show up and ragewank all over this thread...

I remember a while back, one of the car makers did actually produce a car designed to be a better fit for women.
It didn't have a rapturous reception as they must have hoped.

This could be because it was only available in pink and purple.

I can't remember which make it was though.

This is something I've become even more aware of while pregnant. You get a cold and you can take sweet FA for it, what could be cured in 2/3 days with some Sudafed takes 3 weeks to get over because you can't take any of the usual medicines. If men had to be pregnant you can bet your arse it wouldn't be like that. Likewise with morning sickness, I had Hyperemesis and none of the tablets I was given helped, just had to suffer through it. Pretty sure childbirth would also be a whole different story if men had to experience it too.

Thegoodthere
Waiting for MRAs to show up and ragewank all over this thread...

not sure why you would think that, anyone that knows about design knows that its based on averages then a sliding scale outwards.

I had Hyperemesis and none of the tablets I was given helped, just had to suffer through it.

I had HG too and the GP refused to prescribe me anything at all, despite me being so unwell I was sick in the waiting room and during the consultation, said "sickness is a normal part of pregnancy" and I needed to learn to cope better. By contrast, DH went to the GP later that week as he was feeling sick a lot (not actually being sick) and was given medication for it because, in the words of the GP, constant nausea was negatively impacting his day to day function. The medication he was given? The exact same medication A&E prescribed for me two days later when I was admitted for dehydration.

Waiting for MRAs to show up and ragewank all over this thread...

Read the comments on the actual article if you want your fill of, "Why don't women do something about it themselves?" "Women should just boycott cars and smartphones and jobs then" etc etc

This is something I've become even more aware of while pregnant. You get a cold and you can take sweet FA for it, what could be cured in 2/3 days with some Sudafed takes 3 weeks to get over because you can't take any of the usual medicines. If men had to be pregnant you can bet your arse it wouldn't be like that. Likewise with morning sickness, I had Hyperemesis and none of the tablets I was given helped, just had to suffer through it. Pretty sure childbirth would also be a whole different story if men had to experience it too.

This ^

Imagine if men had period pain, or polycystic ovaries, or the menopause. Imagine going to the go and them not just shrugging or saying "have you tried the pill?"

*gp not go

Despite it being illegal I've been asked at job interviews, 'conversationally' of course, if have DC and "are they at school today or....?" aka, fishing for information on my childcare arrangements. DH has never been asked this at a job interview.

Hooman

Did you tell the GP this?

I ended up changing surgeries

You are supposed to have your body x inches away from where an air bag is deployed otherwise you hit them as they inflate rather than as they deflate to lessen the impact.

I'm not sure if you can turn driver air bags off in any cars but I'm so short it's virtually impossible to have my seat back as far as it should be and drive

I’m not surprised!!

If only women could be more involved in the companies that design and build these things !

Hand dryers too high up do the water runs up your arms rather than down your hands....

As a short woman with big boobs, seatbelts barely work for me full stop.

You know you can adjust a seatbelt right? Not so useful for a heavily pregnant woman but otherwise most can be adjusted to fit better.

''Pretty sure childbirth would also be a whole different story if men had to experience it too.''
How would that work? They'd change 150,000 years of evolution?
Good point about the screws though. It doesn't matter if it's structally sound, it matters that it came be screwed in by both sexes.

@DarjeelingDarllng
Agree but try being a tiny black woman also🤷🏾‍♀️

women are their worst enemies. There's so much uproar if anything is presented as designed for women that you can see things never improving.

Thanks to the "feminists" and their equality bollocks. No, most of us do not want to be treated like men and would prefer our differences to be respected, but that's not politically correct.