Why do you need a car, dear?

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

In the 20th century, a process arose, the fruits of which mankind is likely to taste already in the 21st century. Man and woman are changing their positions. It's not even that the former suddenly turned out to be vulnerable creatures, while the latter, on the contrary, demonstrate their crushing power. Well, remember at least all the iron ladies, I personally would not put a finger in their mouths! Still, it's not that important. After all, weakness and strength are very conditional things, and in this case it is difficult to say how this dialectic ends. Someone prophesies matriarchy, others say that a woman herself will climb under her heel (they say, what they fought for, they ran into it). However, today one thing is certain: a modern woman was able to achieve equality with a man. This, of course, is the progress of mankind, for a woman is recognized as a person along with blacks and sexual minorities.

Partially, this was expressed in the fact that the weaker sex got behind the wheel of a car. The expression, I must say, not so hot, but nonetheless. Fundamentally and, it seems, for a long time, the privilege of men has ceased to be such. Some 10 years ago, a lady sitting in a car as a driver shocked someone, made someone scared, someone laugh, it is possible that she could cry. In a word, to experience all human (and not only) emotions. The hype died down. As of 98, every fourth woman in the world has her own car. In Russia, this figure is an order of magnitude less, and as for the provinces, then, to put it mildly, these figures will be exaggerated. Civilization is coming, of course. Or she came, or something … Well, the light is with her.

However, does it always make sense to scream about emancipation when a woman gets behind the wheel. Maybe this type of transport is just a means of transportation? Or the result of the penetration of progress, the mechanization of life? And what ultimately prompts a woman to get behind the wheel, step on the gas pedal and jump into the world of speed and movement? This is what I decided to find out by talking to some motorists, both with significant driving experience and not so much. So, beep, a VAZ 21053 is approaching us …

Marina Nechaeva, professor - philologist: "To drive a car, this is not a lecture for you!"

Yes, yes, that's right, says Marina Vladimirovna, assuring that there are no difficulties in driving a car for a woman. Perhaps such a conclusion allows one to draw a significant driving experience - Marina Vladimirovna has been driving a car since 1988, although her first experience took place at the age of 16. However, it is also a native element: "I remember from the age of 6 how my parents and I traveled by car. We were in the Caucasus, drove along the Golden Ring. I myself traveled to St. Petersburg by car." Despite the fact that relations with the Zhiguli family are developing, according to Marina Vladimirovna, gently, she still considers the car a means of transportation. A means more reliable than the Russian public transport. And the situations when the car would lead to some kind of trouble while (and thank God!) Was not, this is due to the woman's caution. A character trait that is weakened in men - let's call it intuition, so that no one is offended.

The car, by the way, helped Marina Vladimirovna, in her words, to open the man. This remarkable event came, as you know, at a gas station. Here, male drivers consider themselves obliged to acquaint everyone around them with their knowledge in the field of profanity. Here's to you, please, another facet of the relationship between a man and a woman, which again opened up thanks to the fact that the woman began to drive.

- First of all, I rest in the car. When you are calmly driving along the highway and there is no one ahead, excuse the expression, you are fools, otherwise you cannot say. (Note not stupid !!!)

To be honest, I don't think that in this case the woman got behind the wheel out of a desire to prove something to the man. Not at all. The man in this story, as you understand, is represented rather indirectly. So, a car is a means of transportation …

But not only that. The car gave our next heroine self-confidence. Meet Tatiana Baryshnikova, restaurant director, and her cherry figure eight.

She sat behind the wheel purely by chance: "Yes, it was an accident that made me sit behind the wheel. A friend played the main role in my car history. first glance accidentally. And now, when I got behind the wheel, I had the feeling that I was many, many years late. I remember my first experience in 20 years, when at work I asked the driver to teach how to drive, he showed me everything, I went. Then I realized - it's mine. Then some time passed, I am the wife of a military man and I had to travel a lot around the cities and somehow the thought of buying a car did not come to my mind, and there were enough other problems. Honestly, after 23 It was not easy to get behind the wheel. Consciousness is ahead of reality. However, I am grateful to my friends who supported me both morally and technically. I confess that until recently I thought that driving a car is not a woman's business. But now I am thinking over when the daughter reaches adulthood, she will also need to get behind the wheel. This is a necessity. This is confidence in life …"

I am inclined to believe this, because each of us is happy when he acquires a friend, and this is what Tatyana's car has become: "I talk to her like a friend, I call her a Swallow, I say:" Swallow, we will now go there, there- then you please don't let me down!"

To be honest, I still wanted to hear in the words of women something about her current status, about the fruits of feminism, allowing her to fulfill her needs. After all, a woman began to do men's work and she enjoys it. The car, of course, is not a good example, but in this sense it is indicative. This was discussed from the very beginning with Marina Khabarova, gynecologist and member of the Women of Russia movement … Marina also drives a car, a compact "Tayota-Ceros": "I believe that a car is not a means of self-affirmation of a woman in front of a man. If I need to prove something to a man, I will find other ways for this. A man and a woman can argue, to for example, in science. But, let’s say, it’s stupid to consider a car as a means of proving your intelligence and strength in front of a man’s. There are, of course, situations when they are forced to do it. For example, a man of mine in a Zaporozhets tried to overtake one of my acquaintances in a decent car. And I think, it is important to make it clear to such a man that the forces in the fight are not equal.”This, of course, plays on men's pride …

- Yes, at first there was fear. The adrenaline in the blood increased. This is because I was alone in the car. I drove a car before, but my husband was nearby. And here alone, of course, at first it was difficult to adapt. I think men experience a similar state of affairs when they first get behind the wheel.

- I do not do this, why should I bother with unnecessary information? What for? If there are people for whom this is a profession, and they can handle problems better than me. You don't need to know how it works to drive a car …

And the fourth heroine of this epic. Elena Nistratova - teaches a foreign language at one of the universities … She is an experienced motorist, and the car has already become a part of life for her.

Finally, talking with Elena, I heard the long-awaited words when it came to self-affirmation: “I can say unequivocally that a car is only a means to prove something to a man. There are times when you feel it. I will not hide, but I do not feel it Men behave differently on the road. Everybody happens, they can scold, sometimes unreasonably rude. And here's a typical situation: a man is driving calmly, you start to overtake him. And if he sees that a woman is driving - that's it! The roof is going, you can't say otherwise! It's just that they are starting to go crazy. There have been various cases in this regard. It is at such moments that I want to prove something, make it clear and assert myself once again. And the rest, I take it absolutely calmly.. It’s even more pleasant for me if they don’t pay attention to me. I am eating myself and eating!"

A fairly simple canvas emerges, a woman, getting behind the wheel, does not always think about a man. Simply because she has other concerns. And she builds her relationship with the car according to a proven scheme - tenderness and care. Maybe that's why you have to hear a lot less complaints about car breakdowns from the fair sex. Though he is an iron mechanism, but the devil knows, maybe he understands what?

I am sure that someday people will get used to the fact of driving a car by a woman and will stop noticing it. In the meantime, I advise men to enjoy such a vivid show. How? It's simple. A woman driving a car is also beautiful.