High-fronted SUVs are more likely to kill and are on the rise in Europe, with the UK an extreme example
  • wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    5 days ago

    TBF we’re rapidly approaching an idiocracy situation, so maybe killing children is a mercy. (/s in case it’s not abundantly obvious)

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    6 days ago

    This isn’t a discovery, this is just one of the things men in US society decided to ignore the danger of and the rest of us dutifully complied.

    • Cort@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 days ago

      This isn’t a discovery

      No, but it’s a Range Rover, so close enough.

    • psivchaz@reddthat.comEnglish
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      5 days ago

      Nah, at least in the US women buy these too or giant SUVs with the exact same problem. Maybe it was marketing to men that started it, but it certainly isn’t exclusive.

      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        5 days ago

        Can y’all stop making feminists roll in their graves? Learn some basic elementary school shit about how women can intentionally, unintentionally, consciously or subconciously participate in sexism against women. Please, I am terrified of how powerful an undead feminist uprising would be, human men would be fucked (or rather not fucked) for the next 10 million years. Even if we are going to continue to be sexist can we at least all agree that sexism is more nuanced than a binary “does this person possess sexism or not?” and that you can be sexist without realizing it, or be forced or cajoled into participating in sexism without realizing it?

        By far the funniest evidence for my point is that I am myself a heterosexual white man who falls in a lot of ways along the stereotypes of what a heterosexual white man is like, and yet the single biggest point I am getting in pushback in this thread is that my attack on men isn’t warranted because women drive pickups too so that can’t be a toxic masculinity thing… but by that logic it would be impossible for me to be sexist towards heterosexual white men right now since I am a heterosexual white man, and yet I am or at least I arguably am being sexist according to many other people on this thread?

        So which is it? Can you participate in toxic sexism without being part of the group that is on paper given permission to participate in applying the sexism with force to vulnerable groups? Can you participate in sexism intentionally or unintentionally as a victim of that very sexism? Can you participate in sexism against the categories that society or you yourself have imposed on yourself? Or is it impossible/nobody would ever do it and I am not being sexist because I am a man?

        See the thing is, I do agree, we shouldn’t be sexist towards men and men have lots of problems facing them right now (chiefly, men being allowed to grow into adult babies who are incredibly emotionally immature and don’t know how to deal with intense emotions in a healthy manner, especially when they stem from their views being challenged but that is a tangent) but if everybody is going to insist on having a conversation about it like we are all babies, than I will continue to light heartedly shit on men… as a man.

        shrugs

    • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      6 days ago

      This community is “FuckCars”, not “FuckMen”. There are plenty of men here who are here because “Fuck Cars”. I don’t think that alienating the men of this community will do any good.

    • courval@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 days ago

      Unfortunately this is not only a UK problem. Most SUVs as you find them all around the world are bigger threats to humans of all ages…

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I drive a normal sized pickup and almost every day I come out of work I have that freakout moment where I think my car has been stolen because it is 100% completely hidden behind one of these kid killers some other person keeps parking next to my pickup.

    Trucks don’t need to be that big. Half of them have extended cabs and shortened beds, which kind of kills the point of having a pickup truck. The full bed for hauling shit is the whole point.

    Also, why would you condemn yourself to the pain of parking one of those wherever you go?

    Also, they kill children.

    • grue@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Half of them have extended cabs and shortened beds,

      Somebody correct me if I’m wrong, but I think it’s literally all of them at this point. Aside maybe from fleet sales and other special cases like that, I don’t think there are any pickup truck models in the US that are actually available with a regular cab anymore.

      (The Slate truck is supposedly going to be regular cab, but it doesn’t count because it’s not out yet.)