"With all the recent media coverage of women not being permitted to
drive in a certain Middle Eastern country, I got thinking – what would
it be like if men weren't allowed to drive? I came to one simple
conclusion: we women would be much safer."
http://www.altmuslimah.com/a/b/a/what_if_men_werent_allowed_to_drive/#When:10:47:58Z
SAUDI FEMALE DRIVER BAN
What if men weren't allowed to drive?
BY SHELINA ZAHRA JANMOHAMED, JUNE 6, 2011
With all the recent media coverage of women not being permitted to
drive in a certain Middle Eastern country, I got thinking – what would
it be like if men weren't allowed to drive? I came to one simple
conclusion: we women would be much safer. Think about the dangers of
male drivers. Men have higher rates of speeding, they are involved in
more accidents and cause more deaths on the road. Their
high-testosterone brains ignite higher incidences of road rage. They
are notorious tailgaters, failing to observe any measure of safe
stopping distance. And, they can't even be bothered to ask directions
when lost.
The solution is simple: bar them from driving. If men start to whine
and whinge about their "rights" being infringed, then just to stop
their "waagh waagh waagh" moaning, consider this modest proposal.
Driving lanes could be segregated by gender. Or, better still, we
introduce gender-segregated streets, some for men, and some for women.
This way, we women would not have to look at the horror of their
balding heads, especially those of middle-aged drivers in
convertibles, their toupees or comb-overs flapping in the wind.
By limiting their access to certain streets, we would also be safe
from their high-speed antics and reckless driving, which, due to their
biological design, they are compelled to engage in. They can't help
it, poor things. Have petrol, will accelerate.
Where there are roads that men insist they need access to (although
what kind of roads these could be, I just don't know – perhaps ones
with football stadiums on them?), a timetable could be devised with
restricted hours for men to use them at essential times only. Of
course, these hours would exclude the times that the men ought to be
at home putting out the rubbish, fixing shelves or cleaning out the
drains.
Segregated lanes, limited access and a timetable could be combined
into a new road system based on Gender Prioritisation and Separation
(GPS).
Male drivers are genetically predisposed to road rage, and if we are
to permit them to drive, then we must warn them they will only have
themselves to blame if they are attacked in any altercation that
ensues. Not driving is for their own good, so if they choose to ignore
this, they must bear the consequences.
Of course, we must ensure that these male drivers are not a source of
temptation for women. And even more importantly we must take steps to
prevent them from driving willy-nilly around on frivolous activities
like collecting the children from school, caring for sick relatives or
attending places of employment to earn wages to buy food.
In fact, now that I think about it, these tasks are entirely trivial
and the men can manage them quite comfortably by hiring a female
chauffeur to drive them around. If they are in the back, then they
won't be able to use their wiles to tempt the poor female driver.
When it comes down to it, I am of the view that men don't really want
to drive, but they think it's fashionable to say that they do. I mean,
why would they bother with the hassle of parking? Why get hot under
the collar trying to navigate traffic?
In short, men are simply not designed to drive. We tell them and tell
them that driving is not good for them, and it's not good for society.
But that's typical of men isn't it: they just won't listen.
Shelina Zahra Janmohamed is a commentator on British Islam and Muslim
women and is the author of Love in a Headscarf. She blogs at the
website Spirit21. This article previously appeared in The National
(UAE).
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