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Women Drivers

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Women Drivers	comment	A (supposedly) long-dead comedy trope/stereotype which maintained that a woman behind the wheel of a car automatically became a danger to life and limb. Regardless of how intelligent and thoughtful a woman was, this trope insisted she would become a Cloudcuckoolander — or worse, The Ditz — the moment she slipped into the driver's seat: incapable of using turn signals, checking her gear shift position, or even looking where she's going. Even parking could become a major challenge. Any problems — or worse, accidents — she caused would be dismissed with a breezy carefreeness that husbands and traffic cops inevitably found grating, women drivers as often as not blaming the car for operator errors. Being a male driver on a road anywhere within a half mile of a woman driver was grounds for elevated blood pressure and/or anxiety attacks. If a male character had a traffic accident or fender-bender in a comedy made before 1970, a woman driver was most likely the cause. And if the mom of a pre-1970 Dom Com got behind the wheel, it was all but guaranteed she'd come home with a crumpled fender and an improbable story that completely exonerated her by shifting the blame to another driver or perhaps a tree which lunged out into the street at her. Still sometimes used in fiction, often set in the Asian parts of the world and California or Massachusetts; the common joke here is that every time you see a car do something incredibly stupid (as opposed to incredibly dangerous or obnoxious), chances are the driver is a woman. With a high probability of them being Asian.note Unless Massachusetts is used. It's also very popular in the comments sections of car accident videos on sites like YouTube. Statistically speaking, women report more accidents to the police/insurance companies than men do. However, the accidents men report are far more serious — women are more likely to claim for scratching a car on the parking lot, but men are more likely to drive past a red light and into a car at 100 kmph. In locales where insurance companies are allowed to give different premiums for men and women, women's premiums will be less than men's, as the overall cost to the insurance company of covering women is actually lower than the equivalent men. From the late 1940s to roughly the mid 1960s, women did tend to be poorer drivers than men of the same age simply because they usually learned later in life, from poorer instructors (their husbands, rather than professionals), and until the two-car family became commonplace, had less opportunity to practice, as men made more use of the car. Also, before power steering became standard, driving needed a fair amount of upper-body strength, especially large vehicles. Even during that period, though, this trope was at best a considerable exaggeration of the actuality. The trope has been somewhat replaced by Drives Like Crazy, in which the driving is the joke, rather than the womanhood. See Directionless Driver for another gender-based driving stereotype. Due to the way this trope uses gender stereotypes, No Real Life Examples, Please!
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Women Drivers / int_1462da4	comment	In the sci-fi sitcom Come Back Mrs. Noah, one of the Bridge Bunnies pilots the rescue rocket sent to retrieve the title character, only to miss their launch window because she floods the engine.
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Women Drivers / int_16712475	comment	In an episode of The Jetsons, Jane goes in for her driver's license much to the horror of the driving instructor. The car has the standard "STUDENT DRIVER" sign flanked by a couple of barely-noticed decorative frames. When the instructor first sees Jane, he turns a dial, and the "decorative frames" flip to make the car read "WOMAN STUDENT DRIVER BEWARE". After Jane is forced by a bank robber to be his escape vehicle, the instructor professes concern for "that poor creature" — not Jane, but the robber she's driving. Since it's supposed to be the 21st century, one wonders why she didn't learn to drive years before... In another episode, Judy takes driving lessons and is also rather bad. She only gets her learner's permit through what amounts to blackmail. This was a staple of Hanna-Barbera shows, especially the family-centered ones, even until the end of Hanna-Barbera as a separate entity in the 90's. George was confused when the woman in the car ahead of his made random signs that made no sense in the order she used them. She had more feminine meanings for them and berated George for not understanding them.
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Women Drivers / int_193ae83d	comment	Yuka Suzuki of Racing Lagoon is a lone female racer of BLR, and she's the worst driver comparing to other males. This is subverted for the Queen team, though.
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Women Drivers / int_1b71921c	comment	In Misfile — while female Ash struggles to drive the day of her transformation. It's justified, however, because she isn't used to her new smaller feet andâ€¦ other features.
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Women Drivers / int_1be9854a	comment	For the most part, this is averted in Sound of the Sky, in which most of the female characters that do drive are competent at it, save for one instance in one of the bonus episodes for DVD, in which Kanata nearly crashes into a pillar and ends up driving down a flight of stairs with Yumina panicking beside her. She does know how to drive correctly, in theory; but she's incapable of focusing.
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Women Drivers / int_22030366	comment	Suicide for Hire gives us one from the mouth of Altair Anunnaki, pizza deliverator and "definitive source of all things meretricious, vivacious, and delicious" — although he adds the caveat "on a cell phone."
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Women Drivers / int_231ed759	comment	Tosh.0 devoted an entire segment to women drivers, specifically Parallel Parking. Two women managed to bump into the neighboring vehicles, one even asking in a bubbleheaded fashion, "Did I hit something?" One teenager who only had her learner's permit, though, completed the test successfully.
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Women Drivers / int_23c80df0	comment	Family Compo: Yukari is a housewife who has a driver's license but hasn't actually been behind the wheel in fifteen years. On the one occasion when she does take the car out, she winds up driving against traffic and jumping a barrier to get onto the right side of the road.
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Women Drivers / int_261c8d3f	comment	Referenced on The Simpsons in an episode where Homer reads a "Motoring Ms.-Haps" cartoon in Reading Digest. Marge tells him off for thinking there is any truth to the stereotype. A parody of The Lockhorns? Also referenced by Krusty the Clown, nostalgic for the days of "time tested jokes about doctor bills and women drivers" When Burns sent goons to run Homer off the street, Homer blamed it on Women on cars and "helicopters".
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Women Drivers / int_27b0262b	comment	Addressed by the MythBusters in a 2012 episode. They determined there was some difference between gender and driving competency—on a police driving course, on a scale from 0 to 100, the ten men scored a 79 on average, while ten women scored an average of 71. (The test was done "blind"; the sex of the person driving was hidden from the examiner to eliminate bias.) There was, however, significant overlap (some good female drivers, some poor male drivers), so there is less of a difference than the trope would suggest. What's more, the way points were lost were surprisingly similar — both men and women were almost as likely as each other to exceed the speed limit, for example (in fact, the test showed women more likely to do so). In parallel parking, there was a significant difference once you dug into the numbers; most women parked perfectly but a few panickers dragged down the average while no men panicked but all had a looser standard of "good enough" than the women. Tory will often make cracks about Kari being involved in a driving test (unfairly, judging by what we've seen). Kari was the only one who had trouble driving in snow while going forward, but that had mitigating factors—Kari had no experience driving in snow and was driving a front-wheel-drive car, while Grant had the four-wheel drive vehicle, and Tory had had experience in "drifting" cars through turns which helped him here.
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Women Drivers / int_2a4c791e	comment	Averted in Ah! My Goddess, all the best drivers/riders in the series (Chihiro, Megumi and Belldandy) are women. Even the American off road racing champion that Aoshima hired in one episode was a woman. The only notable male driver is Keiichi.
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Women Drivers / int_2a640f8c	comment	Gunsmith Cats is an aversion: the female protagonist, Rally Vincent, is an expert driver who loves powerful muscle cars like her beloved Shelby Cobra. Sure, she wrecks cars like no one's business, but that's because of the insane antics she gets into. rather than her driving ability. The other exception is Riff Raff, who was on the receiving end of Bean Bandit's above diss on her driving. After slugging him in the face (where he commends her for throwing a punch that hurt more than a stun-gun), she promptly proves she's just as good as Rally.
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Women Drivers / int_2bb73ab2	comment	Betty from Hey Dad..! is a spectacularly awful driver, as part of her general characterization as The Ditz.
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Women Drivers / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Referenced in several Looney Tunes shorts, usually by Witch Hazel: "I had the silly thing in reverse!"
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Women Drivers / int_2ef7cb74	comment	In contrast to all the competent women drivers in Lyrical Nanoha, we have Team Mom, Shamal, who is revealed in the Wolkenritter-centric Sound Stage M4 to be a bad driver. To wit: Note that she's also a Lethal Chef, so the joke isn't really on her driving but on her inability in everyday tasks.
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Women Drivers / int_304d4028	comment	Seccotine in the Spirou & Fantasio album Le nid des Marsupilamis.
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Women Drivers / int_32c3b145	comment	Canada's Worst Driver: The Canadian version has gone through ten seasons now. So far the 'worsts' are five men and six women (yes, that's eleven winners; Season Eight ended in a tie). Mind the season five "winner" was pretty much the Dumb Blonde brought to life, and the Season 6 runner-up was just as clueless.
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Women Drivers / int_33fdae4d	comment	Mad Men is set in the 1960s and sometimes alludes to and defies this trope. One episode featured the junior admen listening to Bob Newhart's Driving Instructor bit about teaching a woman how to drive, Betty onetime comments that Don hates her driving but she learned from her father, plenty of the housewives drive cars (with Betty possessing a Cool Car in the form of a lemon yellow station wagon and later inheriting her Father's black Lincoln), Peggy is entrusted by Don to drive himself and his mistress out of a police station, Joan has a driver's license, and finally we see Lois (the office ditz) drive a John Deere tractor over a guy's foot with no "woman driver" comment (likely because everyone there works and/or lives in Manhattan where driving or owning a car is unnecessary).
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Women Drivers / int_379c9a85	comment	All My Children's Adam Chandler snaps at ex-wife note One of many Natalie "You drive like an old woman!" when she insists on taking them somewhere. It gets less funny when they get into an accident that kills her and leaves him temporarily paralyzed.
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Women Drivers / int_37b7264c	comment	Initial D itself double subverted this trope. The women drivers (Impact Blue team and Kyouko Iwase) are reasonably good (much better than Itsuki and the Akina Speed Stars at least), but they are middling-to-low leveled compared to the big guns like Takumi or Keisuke, much less to the old guys. This trope was inverted once in Extra Stage where Team Emperor calls one of their henchmen to challenge Impact Blue team. The Emperor henchman's Evo was crashed halfway when racing against Impact Blue's Sileighty, which succeed the battle.
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Women Drivers / int_410990ba	comment	In the first episode of the Israeli animated series M.K. 22, the (fictional) first female Israeli astronaut is interviewed before take-off. She talks about how how NASA has no room for stereotypes and women are involved in all parts of the organisation, while in the background a woman driver crashes into two parked cars while trying to park herself. This becomes a running gag throughout the episode.
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Women Drivers / int_41407f57	comment	Subverted in You're Under Arrest!, Natsumi's the only female shown to exhibit this "ability".
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Women Drivers / int_42c05590	comment	In the Rocko's Modern Life episode "Driving Mrs. Wolfe," Heffer's mother is revealed to be a rare straight example in modern animation, which leads to chaos when she accidentally finds herself driving on a racetrack.
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Women Drivers / int_4399cc1e	comment	A variation with a moped rather than a car in Small Soldiers. Christy drives herself and Alan (and Archer in his backpack) away with the Commandos chasing after them. After they've been dispatched, Alan and Archer invoke the trope.
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Women Drivers / int_483a069c	comment	Mortadelo y FilemÃ³n: Exploited by Mortadelo. One trick he has pulled once or twice to shake off pursuers in a car chase consists in disguising as a woman, then using blinkers properly. "Â¡El carnet al punto!" shows that Ofelia is a terrible driver, going so far off the road that she ends up driving on the city roofs.
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Women Drivers / int_49ff762	comment	Toshiko once accused the Torchwood team of not letting her drive because she is a woman, but it turns out that they barred her from the wheels because she is a lot shorter then the rest of the team, and they don't like to keep on readjusting the driver's seat and mirrors.
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Women Drivers / int_4c06d071	comment	One episode of X-Men: Evolution had the other characters running in terror whenever Kitty was looking for someone to take her driving. Kitty tries to convince either Scott or Jean to ride with her because she has a learner's permit. It's Jean who shoves Scott at Kitty and runs off. At some point, Professor X tricked Wolverine into riding with her. She made Wolverine fear for his life. Wolverine extracted payback by having her drive the Professor's limo. Of course, it should be pointed out that her driving is likely less because she's a woman and more because she has absolutely no concern for traffic hazards since she's a mutant who can just phase through them, often unphasing too soon and getting random objects melded into the car.
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Women Drivers / int_50a9ace1	comment	This is the subject of two Popeye shorts: "Wimmin Hadn't Oughta Drive" from the Fleischer era, and "Car-azy Drivers" from the Famous era, both of which deal with Popeye trying to teach Olive Oyl how to drive. In the latter short, Olive even calls him out on this trope when he shows up wearing a suit of armor.
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Women Drivers / int_5286ec36	comment	Benny the Cab from Who Framed Roger Rabbit calls everyone he passes "lady", even though he is the one who Drives Like Crazy. Jessica Rabbit, however, drives relatively competently for a toon.
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Women Drivers / int_5690420f	comment	Referenced and averted in the DuckTales (1987) episode "Double O Duck"; Launchpad yells at enemy agent Feathers as she tries to run him off the road, saying that "it's people like you who give women drivers a bad name!"
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Women Drivers / int_57e3ab58	comment	The Dick Van Dyke Show: In "Scratch My Car and Die", Rob is enamored with his new car and feels unhappy when Laura has to borrow it because the other car is in the shop. While Laura is in a store for less than five minutes, somebody scratches it. The stereotype about women being lousy drivers comes up multiple times from both sides. Sally brings up the stereotype that women are lousy drivers, but she blames it on men designers continually changing where vital things are to bewilder women. Millie insists that Laura shouldn't tell Rob about the scratch because if she does, he'll use it as evidence that women are lousy drivers and Laura will be responsible for shaming their whole sex. After reassuring Laura that the scratch incident could have happened to anyone, Rob mentions that all drivers have problems, even male ones. He then proceeds to reel off a series of incidents he caused that evening that are much worse than anything that happened to the car under Laura's care.
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Women Drivers / int_59215319	comment	Maya Amano of Persona 2 confidently pilots every vehicle the cast comes across in Innocent Sin, citing that she's the only one with a driver's license. She crashes every time. Granted, she's trying to apply a car license to a boat, a blimp, and a submarine. In contrast, Tatsuya Suou (a high school student who explicitly does not have a car license) successfully pilots everything from a motorcycle to a Mini-Mecha, although part of it is rumor magic at work.
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Women Drivers / int_5921531b	comment	Subverted in Persona 4 Golden. When the girls are studying for their motorcycle licenses, Kanji (who's too young to apply) wonders whether they're any good as drivers, as does Rise, and even the fairly intelligent Yukiko has some trouble with the material. In the end, though, they pass and are no less competent than the males.
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Women Drivers / int_5921531c	comment	Persona 5: Justified with Haru, who is an extremely bad driver that crashes Morgana almost immediately because she's never actually driven before and has no idea what she's doing. Averted with Makoto, who's the best driver of the Phantom Thieves due to the fact that she's the only member of the team who actually got a driver's license. Her Persona even takes the form of a badass motorcycle.
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Women Drivers / int_5e91c7d	comment	Ashley manages to crash the bulldozer she's driving right through a wall in Resident Evil 4, but considering she's about to have a head-on collision with the giant flaming truck speeding towards her it's understandable that she swerved to avoid it. It's also quite impressive that a 20-year-old college student could even drive a bulldozer in the first place, and she was doing a pretty good job of it up until this point.
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Women Drivers / int_6274e926	comment	Also averted (or inverted) in the Jem episode "Intrigue at the Indy 500" where Jerrica (as Jem) ends up participating in the race.
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Women Drivers / int_62a7de21	comment	Subverted in Azumanga Daioh - while Yukari Tanizaki is the most dangerous driver on the face of the Earth, no other women shown driving are depicted this way.
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Azumanga Daioh (Manga)	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_62a7de21
Women Drivers / int_63230cb	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_63230cb	comment	In Dragon Ball Z Abridged, when the gang crashes on fake Namek in episode 12, it results in this exchange:
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Women Drivers / int_63230cb	featureConfidence	1.0
Dragon Ball Z Abridged (Web Video)	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_63230cb
Women Drivers / int_67d6ff2d	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_67d6ff2d	comment	In Child's Play 2, Kyle drives so fast to force Chucky out. Then she tries to ram him, and Chucky grabs hold of the bumper shouting "Damn women drivers!".
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Child's Play 2	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_67d6ff2d
Women Drivers / int_6ad790d3	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_6ad790d3	comment	Top Gear's rival shot Fifth Gear has Vicki Butler-Henderson (who also used to be a presenter on the old version of Top Gear) happily averting this trope.
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Women Drivers / int_6ad790d3	featureConfidence	1.0
Top Gear (UK)	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_6ad790d3
Women Drivers / int_6ea7c33b	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_6ea7c33b	comment	In the first episode of Altered Carbon, Takeshi Kovacs is taken by a female chauffeur in a Flying Car to the estate of Laurens Bancroft. When she crashes the limousine trying to land it, it's revealed she's actually Detective Kristin Ortega, who had the driver arrested on a DUI charge so she could take his place in an attempt to find out what Bancroft wants with Kovacs. Justified Trope as she's not familiar with flying that model of car, and it's implied Ortega crashed it deliberately as she has her own grudge against Bancroft.
Women Drivers / int_6ea7c33b	featureApplicability	1.0
Women Drivers / int_6ea7c33b	featureConfidence	1.0
Altered Carbon	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_6ea7c33b
Women Drivers / int_727259ac	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_727259ac	comment	In the "Road Apples" episode of The Ren & Stimpy Show, Mrs. Pipe is driving an RV with her eyes closed, hitting objects along the way.
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Women Drivers / int_727259ac	featureConfidence	1.0
The Ren & Stimpy Show	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_727259ac
Women Drivers / int_73a9c933	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_73a9c933	comment	Taken to an extreme with Lori Grimes in The Walking Dead, who somehow manages to flip her car despite likely being the only person driving on the entire planet at that moment.
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Women Drivers / int_73a9c933	featureConfidence	1.0
TheWalkingDead	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_73a9c933
Women Drivers / int_7668653a	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_7668653a	comment	Averted in Mass Effect 2. The DLC "Lair of the Shadow Broker" features a short section where Shepard engages in a car chase with the antogonist. Apparently, going by the increasing panic of your companion in the passenger seat, Shepard is a terrifyingly reckless driver whether your character is male or female as the two voice actors receit the same lines throughout.
Women Drivers / int_7668653a	featureApplicability	-1.0
Women Drivers / int_7668653a	featureConfidence	1.0
Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_7668653a
Women Drivers / int_77184a72	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_77184a72	comment	Trina from Victorious although this could be because she's so egotistical that she thinks she's above the rules of the road. And then after a driver honks at her...
Women Drivers / int_77184a72	featureApplicability	1.0
Women Drivers / int_77184a72	featureConfidence	1.0
Victorious	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_77184a72
Women Drivers / int_79328e7	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_79328e7	comment	Wacky Races: In two episodes, Penelope Pitstop (AKA: "the glamour gal of the gas pedal") unwittingly made the turn left sign while drying her nails. Usually averted, however, as Penelope is still a good enough driver to make it to the top three places in several races.
Women Drivers / int_79328e7	featureApplicability	-1.0
Women Drivers / int_79328e7	featureConfidence	1.0
Wacky Races	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_79328e7
Women Drivers / int_7988cb68	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_7988cb68	comment	Some pieces of Fan Art for Mass Effect depict Female Commander Shepard as this, such as this piece. This is more a joke about how nobody can drive the Mako in a straight line. Averted in Mass Effect 2. The DLC "Lair of the Shadow Broker" features a short section where Shepard engages in a car chase with the antogonist. Apparently, going by the increasing panic of your companion in the passenger seat, Shepard is a terrifyingly reckless driver whether your character is male or female as the two voice actors receit the same lines throughout.
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Women Drivers / int_7988cb68	featureConfidence	1.0
Mass Effect (Franchise)	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_7988cb68
Women Drivers / int_7b82aa31	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_7b82aa31	comment	Near the end of 101 Dalmatians, Cruella tries to run a truck off the road because the puppies she wants to use for a fur coat are escaping in it. The truck's driver, unaware of any of this, yells at her for her to get off the road, before turning and muttering, "Crazy women drivers!"
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101 Dalmatians	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_7b82aa31
Women Drivers / int_7c4f1adb	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_7c4f1adb	comment	The 40s-50s comedy series Our Miss Brooks used this at least once when the titular character drove her own car (which was not that often since her vehicle was usually broken down and in the shop). She got rides to school from one of her students, Walter, who sometimes mentioned how many mistakes his mother made while driving.
Women Drivers / int_7c4f1adb	featureApplicability	1.0
Women Drivers / int_7c4f1adb	featureConfidence	1.0
Our Miss Brooks (Radio)	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_7c4f1adb
Women Drivers / int_7e3c015b	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_7e3c015b	comment	An old Candid Camera prank invokes this trope by placing a car in a garage door in such a way that the frame of the door is only an inch away from the bumper. Then they had an attractive woman call a mechanic (or some other professional) to help her out before "Her husband comes back and see what she did to the car".
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Women Drivers / int_7e3c015b	featureConfidence	1.0
Candid Camera	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_7e3c015b
Women Drivers / int_805e8b39	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_805e8b39	comment	In Maison Ikkoku, Kyoko has a license but hasn't been behind the wheel in years. As Shun puts it when asked to ride shotgun, 'Nothing would make me happier than to die at your hands.' She would have had very professional instruction, but has no seat time without an instructor (in Japanese slang a "paper driver"). Interestingly, her Niece says that she "Drove like a man, and passed lots of cars."
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Women Drivers / int_805e8b39	featureConfidence	1.0
Maison Ikkoku (Manga)	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_805e8b39
Women Drivers / int_82439e64	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_82439e64	comment	In The Office (US version) episode "Diversity Day", everyone is supposed to treat the others as the race named on a card stuck to their forehead. Dwight demands that Pam treat him as his new ethnicity (Asian), so he could figure out what it was.
Women Drivers / int_82439e64	featureApplicability	1.0
Women Drivers / int_82439e64	featureConfidence	1.0
The Office (US)	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_82439e64
Women Drivers / int_8aad83bb	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_8aad83bb	comment	Averted in Ronin Warriors, Mia is actually very capable of driving (And is shown driving the team throughout the series and in the second OVA).
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Women Drivers / int_8aad83bb	featureConfidence	1.0
Ronin Warriors	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_8aad83bb
Women Drivers / int_934b1887	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_934b1887	comment	Inverted with Youko in CROSSâ€ CHANNEL, she seems to be able to drive competently while the males make a wreck out of the parking lot.
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Women Drivers / int_934b1887	featureConfidence	1.0
CROSSâ€ CHANNEL (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_934b1887
Women Drivers / int_94081029	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_94081029	comment	Ridge Racer depicts Reiko Nagase as a professional racer driving the Assoluto Fatalita. Rena Hayami, from R: Racing Evolution, is an ambulance driver turned racer, and is a straighter version before she progresses her racing career.
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Ridge Racer (Video Game)	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_94081029
Women Drivers / int_957922a4	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_957922a4	comment	In the Alvin and the Chipmunks episode "Help Wanted: Mommy", Miss Miller drives the boys to school and crashes into a streetlight.
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Women Drivers / int_957922a4	featureConfidence	1.0
Alvin and the Chipmunks	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_957922a4
Women Drivers / int_976efc02	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_976efc02	comment	Mystery Science Theater 3000, while sporking the 1950s driving safety film Last Clear Chance:
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Women Drivers / int_976efc02	featureConfidence	1.0
Mystery Science Theater 3000	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_976efc02
Women Drivers / int_9b530c26	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_9b530c26	comment	A frequent, frequent, frequent punchline to Archie Comics circa 1960. Arch was always afraid of lending Ol' Betsy out to Betty, for fear that she'd "drive like a woman" and somehow destroy it (more). Particularly funny considering Betty eventually evolved into a Wrench Wench and one of the only people who could successfully get Betsy running. Invoked and parodied in one where Betty realizes Betsy's fender is crumpled, and is certain Archie will blame her. Veronica helps her get it fixed. Turns out, Archie did the damage.
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Women Drivers / int_9b530c26	featureConfidence	1.0
Archie Comics (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_9b530c26
Women Drivers / int_9b7e31d	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_9b7e31d	comment	Thunderbirds mined this for humor more than once - Lady Penelope in particular was a frightening driver. The plot of the episode "City of Fire" began when a careless female motorist crashes her car in a parking garage and sets the entirety of the world's tallest building on fire. The end of the episode shows her alive, well, and once more driving like a maniac behind the wheel of another car. A later episode of the series showed that Lady Penelope's driving skills had improved since the first time she tried it.
Women Drivers / int_9b7e31d	featureApplicability	1.0
Women Drivers / int_9b7e31d	featureConfidence	1.0
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_9b7e31d
Women Drivers / int_9c698d34	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_9c698d34	comment	Jodie from Loserz managed to jump with her car over a McDonald's.
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Women Drivers / int_9c698d34	featureConfidence	1.0
Loserz (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_9c698d34
Women Drivers / int_9e6cec94	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_9e6cec94	comment	The 2000 remake of "Gone In Sixty Seconds" remake (with Nicholas Cage) makes a two-scene joke of an Asian Woman Driver that was not only horrifyingly bad at driving, but had some pretty destructive misconceptions about traffic laws...
Women Drivers / int_9e6cec94	featureApplicability	1.0
Women Drivers / int_9e6cec94	featureConfidence	1.0
Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_9e6cec94
Women Drivers / int_9f1766e4	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_9f1766e4	comment	The Brady Bunch: Part of the plot driver in Season 5's "The Driver's Seat" ... eldest son Greg needles his sister, Marcia (who is trying to get her driver's license) over her driving abilities. At one point, her nervousness gets to her and she is unable to take her driver's exam. She later re-takes the test and passes, but Greg still wants to see how his abilities compare to Marcia's. In the end, his theory that women drivers are naturally bad are debunked ... realizing in the end that the Brady household has two careful, responsible teenaged drivers.
Women Drivers / int_9f1766e4	featureApplicability	1.0
Women Drivers / int_9f1766e4	featureConfidence	1.0
The Brady Bunch	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_9f1766e4
Women Drivers / int_a183d57f	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_a183d57f	comment	In Futurama, neither Leela nor Amy can parallel park, even though they're flying VTOL vehicles. Leela states this when she becomes the pilot, and Amy is shown sliding her vehicle pefectly into position horizontally, then dinging the cars on both sides anyway.
Women Drivers / int_a183d57f	featureApplicability	1.0
Women Drivers / int_a183d57f	featureConfidence	1.0
Futurama	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_a183d57f
Women Drivers / int_a1ea0f34	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_a1ea0f34	comment	Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: Truly Scrumptious has trouble starting her car, and Caractacus Potts takes notice.
Women Drivers / int_a1ea0f34	featureApplicability	1.0
Women Drivers / int_a1ea0f34	featureConfidence	1.0
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_a1ea0f34
Women Drivers / int_a1f4d0da	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_a1f4d0da	comment	Viciously subverted in all of the The Fast and the Furious movies; some of the most badass (badassest?) drivers are women, and the men tend to respect them for that.
Women Drivers / int_a1f4d0da	featureApplicability	-0.3
Women Drivers / int_a1f4d0da	featureConfidence	1.0
TheFastAndTheFurious	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_a1f4d0da
Women Drivers / int_a58b015a	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_a58b015a	comment	Referenced but averted in Appare-Ranman!. Set some time in the late 19th or early 20th century, Chinese immigrant Jing Xialian works at a racetrack where she's constantly told that driving automobiles is something beyond a woman's capabilities, and that her simply getting behind the wheel would be a novelty circus act at best. Despite this, she practices driving on her off hours and is at least as good as any of the male racers she works with, since she ends up participating in a highly competitive race across America and places second just behind the main character himself. Allowing her to be a full-time racer for the team.
Women Drivers / int_a58b015a	featureApplicability	-1.0
Women Drivers / int_a58b015a	featureConfidence	1.0
Appare-Ranman!	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_a58b015a
Women Drivers / int_ac259af8	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_ac259af8	comment	Saki is much like Azumanga Daioh in that Satomi Kanbara may be a girl who Drives Like Crazy, but she's the only one shown doing so.
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Women Drivers / int_ac259af8	featureConfidence	1.0
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_ac259af8
Women Drivers / int_ae259c31	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_ae259c31	comment	The Spy Who Loved Me: Major Anya Amasova is skilled at many things, but Driving Stick is not one of them. For that scene, Barbara Bach was genuinely struggling with the transmission, while all of Roger Moore's snarky commentary was unscripted.
Women Drivers / int_ae259c31	featureApplicability	1.0
Women Drivers / int_ae259c31	featureConfidence	1.0
The Spy Who Loved Me	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_ae259c31
Women Drivers / int_af05542c	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_af05542c	comment	Subverted in Wangan Midnight, when Yamamoto gives a highly tuned Skyline GT-R demo car with over 600bhp to resident lady Reina Akikawa to drive, his fellow tuner Gaa-chan starts to doubt her ability and Yamamoto's judgement. Reina then proceeds to show complete mastery of the car, no surprise since she has a highly tuned GT-R of her own. In Gaa-chan's defence, that's a powerful enough car that anyone who was used to a regular sedan or compact car instead of a tuner could come to mischief in it very easily, regardless of gender.
Women Drivers / int_af05542c	featureApplicability	-0.3
Women Drivers / int_af05542c	featureConfidence	1.0
Wangan Midnight (Manga)	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_af05542c
Women Drivers / int_af2d4736	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_af2d4736	comment	On the Buses: Everyone at the depot barring Blakey believes in this trope, which is defied as the female bus drivers are better at their jobs than the men and only lose their positions due to Stan and Jack's sabotage.
Women Drivers / int_af2d4736	featureApplicability	1.0
Women Drivers / int_af2d4736	featureConfidence	1.0
On the Buses	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_af2d4736
Women Drivers / int_af3c88ad	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_af3c88ad	comment	In the Cormoran Strike Novels, Strike is biased against them due to several past bad experiences and knows it. He reluctantly allows his partner Robin to drive him in The Cuckoo's Calling and is surprised but pleased to have his biases challenged when Robin turns to be a hypercompetent driver who has taken advanced driving courses.
Women Drivers / int_af3c88ad	featureApplicability	1.0
Women Drivers / int_af3c88ad	featureConfidence	1.0
Cormoran Strike Novels	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_af3c88ad
Women Drivers / int_b0fc9724	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_b0fc9724	comment	A Saturday Night Live Weekend Update joke regarding a Real Life incident in which a man was charged with child endangerment after not only taking his 8 year old daughter to a bar, but making HER drive home because he was too drunk to do it himself. Needless to say, the poor child very rapidly got into an accident (no one was hurt, fortunately). Then-anchor Norm MacDonald promptly cracked, "This just proves what I've been saying for years. Women can't drive!"
Women Drivers / int_b0fc9724	featureApplicability	1.0
Women Drivers / int_b0fc9724	featureConfidence	1.0
Saturday Night Live	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_b0fc9724
Women Drivers / int_b3933a70	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_b3933a70	comment	Always a goldmine of outmoded gender stereotypes, Home Improvement featured an episode in which Jill damaged a car by continuing to drive with the oil light on. When Tim confronted her about this, she claimed that she thought "it would blink, or a buzzer would go off" if it was serious. In another episode, she touches up a car's paint job with red nail polish.
Women Drivers / int_b3933a70	featureApplicability	1.0
Women Drivers / int_b3933a70	featureConfidence	1.0
Home Improvement	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_b3933a70
Women Drivers / int_b61bbe0a	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_b61bbe0a	comment	Modern Family. Gloria gets into several car accidents in one episode and Haley has failed her driving test several times and runs over her father at one point. There's also a pediatrician who sucks but the joke is more based on her being Asian, not a woman.
Women Drivers / int_b61bbe0a	featureApplicability	1.0
Women Drivers / int_b61bbe0a	featureConfidence	1.0
Modern Family	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_b61bbe0a
Women Drivers / int_baa0410d	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_baa0410d	comment	Speed plays with this with Annie, the woman who has to drive the bus against all odds when the driver is shot, had her drivers' license suspended for speeding. As it happens, she does great under the circumstances, no matter how crazy she has to drive to stay alive. The follow-up film has her dipping fully into this trope, with her utterly disastrous attempts at passing her driver's test providing the film's Book Ends.
Women Drivers / int_baa0410d	featureApplicability	1.0
Women Drivers / int_baa0410d	featureConfidence	1.0
Speed	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_baa0410d
Women Drivers / int_c43df4d8	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_c43df4d8	comment	Shows up in Doctor Who, of all places. In "The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe", the 2011 Christmas special, the Doctor lands in 1938, wearing a space suit backwards, and is found by Madge Arwell. When Madge tries to drive the Doctor to the TARDIS, he comments that "We seem to bump into quite a lot of things" when she crashes to a stop. Her excuse: "Well, a lot of things get in the way, it's hardly my fault." It also shows up in a short where it is discussed that Amy once crashed Rory's car into "an unexpected house" and only managed to get her driver's license by blinding the instructor with her attractiveness in a miniskirt. Within days (or quite possibly hours) of the casting announcement of Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor, there were already jokes online regarding how long it would take her to crash the TARDIS. These were often followed by other fans kindly pointing out all of the times the male Doctors have (nearly) crashed the TARDIS. In the cliffhanger ending to "Twice Upon A Time", the newly regenerated Thirteen presses a single button, causes an immediate error message and Stuff Blowing Up and finds herself Thrown Out the Airlock, watching a fire-wreathed TARDIS dematerializing before her horrified eyes as she's falling to her death. In fairness, this is entirely in keeping with what her predecessors did post-regeneration; Ten had the TARDIS bouncing around a council estate like a pinball, Eleven started out in a TARDIS that was on fire and crashing, and nearly pitched himself out mid-air over London, and Twelve got the TARDIS swallowed by a dinosaur! For the rest of her run, Thirteen was no better or worse than her previous selves, and in her final episode she was notably the first Doctor in a long time to have the sense to park the TARDIS before regnerating, and to do it outside. Subverted in The Pirate Planet, where it turns out that new Companion Romana (who had both gotten better grades than the Doctor at the Academy and had taken the time to Read the Freaking Manual), was actually a better pilot than Four, quite probably because she had taken the time to Read the Freaking Manual.
Women Drivers / int_c43df4d8	featureApplicability	-0.3
Women Drivers / int_c43df4d8	featureConfidence	1.0
Doctor Who	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_c43df4d8
Women Drivers / int_c5d0768d	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_c5d0768d	comment	Lori's poor driving is something of a running joke in the Aunt Dimity series. She frankly admits to it, noting that the retired mechanic Mr. Barlow had "come to depend on the income he earned banging out the dents and retouching the scratches I tended to accumulate whenever I drove in England." The Range Rover Bill gives her and its replacement (after an accident due to a washed out road) are both canary yellow, with the colour choice said to be intended as a warning to other drivers.
Women Drivers / int_c5d0768d	featureApplicability	1.0
Women Drivers / int_c5d0768d	featureConfidence	1.0
Aunt Dimity	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_c5d0768d
Women Drivers / int_c75605f9	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_c75605f9	comment	In The Great Gatsby, both female leads are awful drivers though they both tends more to the Drives Like Crazy. Daisy Buchanan eventually kills someone who runs out into the middle of the road, and Jordan Baker admits to being a reckless driver and doesn't care at all about other drivers. Her irresponsible driving is used as another example of her extreme selfishness. It should be noted that Tom Buchanan is no careful driver either, and the only character who claims to be concerned with road safety is Nick Carraway. The Roaring '20s, huh?
Women Drivers / int_c75605f9	featureApplicability	1.0
Women Drivers / int_c75605f9	featureConfidence	1.0
The Great Gatsby	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_c75605f9
Women Drivers / int_c7f5679d	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_c7f5679d	comment	Bella from Twilight is this played straight. Though given Bella has had accidents walking through a door, it would be jarring if she wasn't a bad driver.
Women Drivers / int_c7f5679d	featureApplicability	1.0
Women Drivers / int_c7f5679d	featureConfidence	1.0
Twilight	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_c7f5679d
Women Drivers / int_cbef68d4	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_cbef68d4	comment	Jeremy Hardy on The News Quiz and Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation sometimes takes on the persona of a patronising sexist twit, with the joke being intended to be at the expense of sexist twits (key sign: putting on a posh voice and referring to "the ladies" or "women of the opposite gender"). Quite common in these routines are references to women putting on their makeup in the rear view mirror, or leaving the shopping on the car roof.
Women Drivers / int_cbef68d4	featureApplicability	1.0
Women Drivers / int_cbef68d4	featureConfidence	1.0
The News Quiz (Radio)	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_cbef68d4
Women Drivers / int_cc5a507a	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_cc5a507a	comment	Alice in The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show is often a scatterbrained driver. She has to do "eenie meenie miney moe" to tell which pedal is the clutch and once drove in between two streetcars, ending up with a "tall, thin Chevrolet."
Women Drivers / int_cc5a507a	featureApplicability	1.0
Women Drivers / int_cc5a507a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show (Radio)	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_cc5a507a
Women Drivers / int_ccf875f7	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_ccf875f7	comment	The "You drive like an old lady" criticism is used in an episode of Criminal Minds, though interestingly enough, it's a middle-aged woman (talking on a hands-free cell phone, no less) criticizing a middle-aged man for driving slowly after she cut him off.
Women Drivers / int_ccf875f7	featureApplicability	1.0
Women Drivers / int_ccf875f7	featureConfidence	1.0
Criminal Minds	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_ccf875f7
Women Drivers / int_cd34a1e5	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_cd34a1e5	comment	Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In had a joke about a feminist drive-a-thon being canceled, after all the participants got into their cars and promptly backed in to each other.
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Women Drivers / int_cf2d20a8	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_cf2d20a8	comment	Possibly spoofed in the Johnny Bravo episode "My Date With an Antelope". The reason Johnny's date Carol (the eponymous antelope) can't drive is not because she's a woman (despite one surly cabbie's remark about "Crazy women antelope drivers!"), but because she doesn't have opposable thumbs. In another gag, Johnny crashes while attempting to hit on a woman he's driving alongside. He blames woman drivers.
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Women Drivers / int_db96ded4	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_db96ded4	comment	In The Legend of Korra, Korra is forced to take the car home after her friends are captured and ends up crashing it into a lamppost and netting about 10 parking tickets. When critiqued, she points out that she doesn't know how to drive, and Bolin says she did well, all things considered, and the joke has more to do with her extremely sheltered upbringing than her gender. The trope is also completely averted with Asami, who's probably the best driver in the series. Also, Korra is shown to get considerably better at driving once Asami starts teaching her, though she's still more comfortable for others to be behind the wheel.
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Women Drivers / int_e25322af	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_e25322af	comment	Referenced in the Homestar Runner cartoon "Halloween Fairstival", where Bubs is giving a comedy act that consists of a mish-mash of bare-bones stand-up jokes:
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Women Drivers / int_e293455a	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy Summers is notorious for being unable to drive. What is the one phrase from the series that is repeated several hundred years in the future?
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_e293455a
Women Drivers / int_ea4f62db	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy. In one episode, Peter is blindfolded, but still drives. When Lois asks if she should drive, since she's not blindfolded, he laughs her off. Hilarity Ensues. Also, during a cutaway when Lois is watching the news on September 11, 2001. Peter walks by the screen, takes a glance and comments the pilot must've been female. The Asian woman version happens, too. "How much signal I need to cut across eight lane? None? I turn now. Good luck everybody else!" Pandemonium ensues. Referenced in "Love Thy Trophy" when Stewie turns a multicultural group of kids against each other.
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Family Guy	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_ea4f62db
Women Drivers / int_eb66065e	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_eb66065e	comment	In A Confederacy of Dunces, the plot begins because Ignatius' mother crashes into a historic French Quarter balcony, forcing him to get a series of jobs to pay for the damage. He repeatedly complains to her about this, which is made doubly annoying to her as she only hit it because he wouldn't shut up.
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Women Drivers / int_ec290eb8	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_ec290eb8	comment	Averted (maybe Inverted) on M.A.S.K.. Gloria Baker, the team's only female member, has the cover job of race car driver.
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Women Drivers / int_ef076a36	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager. Sure enough Q makes the Obligatory Joke on encountering his first female starship captain, who happens to be 75,000 light years off course.
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Women Drivers / int_f0a86c12	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_f0a86c12	comment	In a How I Met Your Mother episode, Barney talks trash about "lady drivers" so as to hide the fact that he can't drive.
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Women Drivers / int_f0d6862	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_f0d6862	comment	Similar to the Green Acres example, in Bewitched, Darrin tries to teach Samantha to drive and loses his patience when Samantha can't comprehend the letters. Why should she shift in to D when she wants to move forward? Shouldn't it be F for Forward? Darrin had already invoked the trope at the start of the lesson. Teasing Samantha, as soon as they were seated he told her the "important" first step, without which no woman can operate a vehicle: smoothing her hair. He then went on to tell her that in more advanced lessons, they'd cover drying her fingernails while steering with her knees. Samantha didn't much appreciate the humor.
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Women Drivers / int_f2adcd75	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_f2adcd75	comment	The Lockhorns still uses this. The real question is: are they newly drawn panels or simply endlessly recycled material from The '50s?
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Women Drivers / int_f361b493	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_f361b493	comment	I Love Lucy: The first time Lucy Ricardo gets behind the wheel of a car, she tries to make a U-turn in the Holland Tunnel.
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Women Drivers / int_f4e799ee	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_f4e799ee	comment	Fiona in Burn Notice has invoked this trope to create a distraction. Michael's monologue mentions taking advantage of other people's preconceptions in order to Obfuscate with Stupidity.
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Women Drivers / int_f6fe1bfc	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_f6fe1bfc	comment	Sabrina the Teenage Witch is given a job driving a rich witch's Porsche. Naturally he comes home grateful he's still alive. Although justified since Sabrina is seventeen and doesn't own a car of her own yet. One season earlier, Sabrina and Valerie both buy a car together. In about a week the car is a complete wreck and Sabrina resorts to buying a magical car that drives itself.
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Women Drivers / int_fa00b130	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_fa00b130	comment	Inverted in Spongebob Squarepants. Spongebob is the terrible driver and his driving instructor is a woman.
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Women Drivers / int_fed72154	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_fed72154	comment	Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse reveals that Barbie didn't start taking driving lessons until after she got her license, which she lacked during a previous stint as a race car drivernote Track racing doesn't require a license. She does manage to build a sportscar by herself, though.
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Women Drivers / int_ff78521	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_ff78521	comment	Played with in Adam's Rib: Amanda is driving down a busy street and arguing heatedly with her husband about the Double Standard, and suddenly pulls over in front of a cabbie who grumbles about "lady drivers."
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Women Drivers / int_ff9ab17f	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Deanna Troi developed this reputation. First, she is at the helm when the Enterprise crashes on Veridian III in Star Trek: Generations. Later, she takes the helm just in time for Picard to order her to crash the ship into the bad guy in Star Trek: Nemesis. Parts of the novel Imzadi are set shortly after Generations. In it, Troi gets very tired of being teased with the phrase, "Nice landing." On the other hand, according to the Tech Manual, deorbiting a Galaxy-class saucer section had never been tried before, and it was generally regarded as extremely risky. "Minimal casualties" indicates some exceptional flying. For perspective, in the real world, ditching is considering one of the most difficult and hazardous maneuvers you can pull off, because it involves controlled flight into terrain as slowly as possible, with an already-damaged aircraft. Ditching anything with only a handful of casualties is the mark of an exceptional pilot, to the point that ditching an Airbus A319 (a tiny fraction the size of the Enterprise's saucer) in the Hudson River without killing anybody was considered a "miracle." In the Gateways series of novels, Troi is given command of a small scout vessel as part of a hastily-assembled fleet. Commander Riker gives her what he believes to be an "appropriate" gift upon taking command: a crash helmet. Though maybe it's a Betazoid thing - the pilot flying Voyager in the first episode was a Betazoid, and we all know how well that turned out... Star Trek: Picard S3E10 "The Last Generation" gives Troi one last shot at the driver seat, where she finally manages to avoid running into anything.
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Women Drivers / int_ffc6c28f	type	Women Drivers
Women Drivers / int_ffc6c28f	comment	Averted in Starship Troopers where women are Drop Ship pilots because they have quicker reactions and can tolerate more G-force.
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Women Drivers	processingCategory2	Always Female
Women Drivers	processingCategory2	Discredited Trope
Women Drivers	processingCategory2	Vehicle Index
Kid-E-Cats (Animation) / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Ã©X-Driver / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Archie Comics (Comic Book) / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Kayko & Kokosh (Comic Book) / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Sensation Comics (Comic Book) / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Relationships Series / Fan Fic / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Garuda Superhero / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Last Clear Chance / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
On the Buses / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Speed	seeAlso	Women Drivers
The Artist / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Wings / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Wings (1927) / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Over The Gun (Lets Play) / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Adrian Mole / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Aunt Dimity / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Bloodlines / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Le Petit Nicolas / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
The American Credo / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Thunderball / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
ptitlej5wn77k7	seeAlso	Women Drivers
Ah! My Goddess (Manga) / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Happy Lesson (Manga) / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
15 Big Ones (Music) / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
HyunA (Music) / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Psychostick (Music) / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Canada's Worst Driver	seeAlso	Women Drivers
Canada's Worst Driver / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Come Back Mrs. Noah / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Emergency! / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
For All Mankind / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Harry Enfield and Chums / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
I Love Lucy / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Kevin Can F**k Himself / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Leave It to Beaver / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Modern Family / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
ScÃ¨nes de mÃ©nages / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Smack the Pony / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
The Kids Are Alright (2018) / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Thunderbirds / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Top Gear (US) / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Trial & Error / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Walt Disney Presents / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Would I Lie to You? / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
You Can't Do That on Television / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Blood Stone (Video Game) / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Snow Sakura (Visual Novel) / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse (Web Animation) / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Shadow of Israphel (Web Video) / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Misfile (Webcomic) / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
101 Dalmatians / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers

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