So some company is marketing a blow-up doll for women who are insecure about driving at night, alone. Apparently, the presence of what appears to other people as a real person, gives them enough security to drive around town.
Now, I wonder — do women over-estimate the blow-up dolls’ size, too?
However sexist the whole concept is, it may be concluded that a women’s mind is easily distracted, more succeptible to invasive, negative thoughts that might influence their performance.
Of course this solution doesn’t really work either — it is fooling the women (or person using it) into believing that it is, indeed, safer.
The fact is that anybody using it, seriously does over-estimate its power. Any criminal or sex-offender on a mission can simply use heat-detection to detect that the guy sitting next to the woman is a fake.
It’s a funny concept, but I laugh even harder at the people will actually buy it… In my humble opinion its actually sickening trying to make money of someones’ mental insecurity selling a solution that doesn’t really work.
(Trying hard to refrain from making parallels with the Airplane! film.)

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July 26th 2006 at 11:28 am in
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