Men who drive automatic are "p*****s"?? :(

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Well?? Why do men who can drive only automatic cars, like me, get responses like "p****", "Grandma", etc.

C'mon people be more mature.... (I didn't get that response personally but it's pretty common for many men). It's so stupid. Sometime I wish I was a woman. Men are generally expected to achieve more, a high salary job, a good house, be savvy with how to repair everything.... While if a woman is unemployed it's considered "ok" because she has to take care of the children, laundry, cooking etc. I mean I ain't a chauvinist - I advocate the 50-50 method.... but c'mon those conservative "primitive" men are annoying me! dang it XD

I always thought my dad was a homosexual, thanks for confirming it.

What a sweeping generalization. I can't remember the last time I've seen someone drive stick since my dad had his trooper he brought in '89.

I know what you mean. It is a very silly generalization. I only drive automatic, since both our family cars have that transmission. I can drive a manual, but I probably will have to get my own car if I want to be behind the wheel of one soon. My dad isn't a great driver, and my mom hasn't driven a manual in years, hence it being the transmission of choice for my parents. We had these cars before I got my license, so I guess I'm stuck with it, but i don't see it as something to be ashamed of. If people think that that make me less of a man, then that's just stupid. I mean what am I supposed to do? Put myself into debt trying to get another car, just so that I'm seen in a better way.

Its the same in the UK as well, driving manual is meant to be the "manly" way. Its funny as if you were to go across the pond and drive a manual then you would be the strange one, I enjoy these funny little cultural differences I don't really like driving but if I did end up with a car it would be one I would want and be happy with, anyone who associates masculinity with a method of transportation has issues of their own imo! Only downside to an automatic is that it is less fuel efficient and costs more to fix if anything goes wrong.

I don't plan on racing my car anytime soon, I'm just trying to get from point A to point B, so I have no need for a manual transmission. It's just another thing to have to deal with when you're driving. If only using antediluvian technology makes you a real man, then I guess I'll stick to being a p****. Also, what does this have to do with politics? It always annoys me when people try to inject politics into conversations that have no correlation. People have different opinions on how the government should be run, get over it.

First time i drove stick was with someone who doesnt even have a license. Does that make me supermanly?