In men’s thinking, a woman can’t simply talk about cars, she can’t simply love them and can’t actually drive any car out there. Also, when a man sees a car, it immediately catalogs it, before stating what segment it belongs to, as either a girl’s car or a man’s car. This kind of happens as a consequence of the axiom proclaimed in the beginning.

This way of thinking is so well established that even women themselves are starting to fall for the same way of thinking. The category where my editorials are going is called “Girls Only”, so some people might think that’s a consequence of the same axiom. I would like to clarify this subject and say that the category’s name was given from the perspective of the person who’s writing about cars - and yes, I’m a woman - not from the perspective of this editorial’s theme, the supposed cars for women.

One of my friends weighs over 100 kilograms (220 pounds) and there are very few car seats in which he feels comfortable, or that don’t squeeze him or poke his ribs. He always says that the cars whose seats are like that are “for women”.

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