Ummm…er….

Posted on by April 22, 2023

Whutthehell did I just hear???

In a recent House of Representatives hearing, purple-haired Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) lamented the lack of crash test dummy gender equity.

Full article, HERE.

Yeesh… Really? And this person is a representative in Congress?

Sigh. What is this country coming to? They’ve been saying man/woman is a construct and you can’t discern from a skeleton whether it was a man or a woman (yes, really pushing new archeologists on this one), children should be allowed to ‘choose’ their sex (with the help of the schools), and now this?

I’m glad I’m old and won’t have to see the end of this mess… Grrr…

Comments

Ummm…er…. — 24 Comments

  1. Believe it or not, this is actually a problem.
    Seat belts are designed for 5’9″ men, because that’s how big the standard crash test dummy is. They tend to not fit well on shorter women. A seat belt riding up by your neck (because you’re shorter than the dummy it was designed for) can cause an internal decapitation in an accident.

    • Yup, I agree with McChuck. My gift-from-God, happily-ever-after trophy wife Vanessa is 5’2″, and I’m 6’2″. One size does NOT fit all.
      I’m having a bit of difficulty in finding the original citation, but it appears it might be something done by a legit organization, the Center for Applied Biomechanics at University of Virginia.
      I wish it didn’t get tarred by the Stupid Gender Ideas brush, because the research group actually is looking at ways of making ME (too tall, too fat, too old) safer, as well as my grandkids. But, controversy elicit campaign donations.

  2. Oh I quite agree with McCluck that having different crash test dummies for women and men and children is a good ideaA very good idea.

    But that doesn’t excuse the sheer stupidity of people like Rosa DeLauro who, I’m sorry to say, is one of the Reps. from the State I live in. The ability of these wingnuts to hold multiple completely contracictory things in their heads at once baffles me. It is quite clear that they have never actually thought about any of them.

  3. They manufacture different sized crash test dummies so they can test variables like seatbelts. It’s why some cars now have an adjustable point on the B pillar for them. What the moron infesting a congressional seat is saying is we need GENDERED crash test dummies.
    A detail that makes essentially NO difference for testing. However it would require making changes to how the dummies AND their internal instrumentation is designed. Doing that could render all previous data unreliable. Part of testing is comparing new results with old results. Change the instrumentation and those results can become invalid.

  4. Dan is right on this one. They’ve had different sizes of dummies for a long time and it’s going to make things less safe.

    This is a request from Mayor Pete, who previously has said that men can be women, so WTH?

    My question is ‘how will they know the dummies identify as a woman’?

  5. So DeLauro a Dem is one of the few that knows what a woman is and expects the Admin to know?

  6. What about gender fluid crash test dummies? Why are you assigning gender to the dummies anyway Ms. Sexist Congress critter?

  7. All- As Dan and Gerry said, there have been ‘different’ CTDs for a long time. This is…I don’t know what… sigh

  8. What? Where’s the Fat Arse CTD? The 7′ tall NBA Player (and now WNBA because…) CTD. Where’s the 4′ tall Dwarf CTD.

    Where’s the CTD that identifies as a unicorn, a sparkle-fart, as an African-American (all CTD are white people, naturally,) as a tree?)

    Yes, there are some valid concerns about shapes and sizes of CTD, but they are meant to be ‘average.’ That’s it.

    Some people…

  10. Everyone has made valid points about the dummies. What is needed is emergency tax money to fund research to make everyone’s pelvic arch to be the same (sarcasm intended). The arch is wider in woman which is one reason they sit with their legs together. Men’s arch is narrower so they sit with legs apart (and not because of their junk).

  13. Perhaps congress critters could be used as crash test dummies……it would be more useful than what they are doing now.

  16. So…..
    What both her and Buttygig are actually saying is that men and women ARE actually different.

    I wonder if anyone in the biological men in woman’s sports crowd noticed that yet?

  17. Has the Congresscritter DeLauro interviewed the current crash test dummies to find out what they identify as? ;-p

    • No. The CTD refused to speak with her, not wishing to be seen as endorsing people with funny-looking hair.

  18. I learned a lot from this post and its comment section and now know a much more about crash dummies and their relative efficacy viz. men and women. Informative. But this remains unanswered.

    Why do these persyns dye their hair that stupid way? Strange, eh.