Mike Beckom for April 27, 2023

Must one be a dummy biologist to determine whether a crash dummy is female, or can one simply be a dummy?

So today, this nut is claiming that male and female bodies are exactly alike and therefore will be affected by a car crash in exactly the same way.

Do I even need to comment on this level of stupid? A week ago, nothing was more important than the DIFFERENCE between male and female.

Today, bras are not a thing.

This level of inconsistency has to be driving them all insane.

Buttigieg doesn’t even know what a human female is.

Anyone who doesn’t realize that there are different biomechanical forces acting on women, adolescents, and children in a crash is perfectly welcome to take an ANP101 course.

Let’s Just Say, (tm from an old mailing list) that I was the nice prof; Mr. Beckom would just get an F.

fusilier, Associate Professor of Human Anatomy and Physiology (ret.)

James 2:24

Beckom is RW, so of course, science is all a fraud in his POV.

How about a male crash-test dummy who identifies as a woman instead and save the money?

Women are 73% more likely to be injured in a car wreck than men, according to Verity Now, a US-based vehicle equity campaign group that cites “outdated crash test standards” as the driving force behind the statistic. Vote GOP to make sure women are never treated the same.

This is ridiculous because women are never in car accidents…?

What next, women oriented medical studies on disease, new drugs? Maybe kids shouldn’t be considered? SHEEEEESH!!!!

For a group of people who revel in their surety about the differences between men and women maybe consider the word “irony”.

Don’t they already use female and child anatomy based dummies in crash tests? I thought I saw films of these crashes involving a family unit.

Just put a wig on the male dummies and pretend they’re women. I just saved you almost $20 million dollars.

Define woman. Hey, here’s an idea, design a crash test dummy for transgender. Ooo wait, wait, let’s spend hundreds of millions on CTDs for all the various genders and pronouns.

Every time my wife gets in the car and puts on her seat belt I know it’s uncomfortable for her. It’s not built for her, it’s built for me. Does it keep her safe? I have no idea, it wasn’t tested for women.

Twenty million dollars is CHUMP CHANGE. Only an idiot would worry about $20 million from the Federal budget. It’s a drop in the worlds oceans. It will never be missed.

But, if spent right, it could save lives. It has significance, it is important.

All you kids are just looking for an excuse to slam Buttigieg. It’s what you do. I got no problem slamming the guy, if he needs slamming.

This isn’t it.

Yes regressives, females have on average a different stature and anatomy from males. That proposal is a long time coming. Protection of females is well known to be at the bottom of list for right wing extremist christian nationalists

Republicans HATE the concept of spending money to save lives.

They didn’t have crash dummies, seat belts or ANY safety equipment on cars, trucks, or busses back when America was Great Again.

Bumpers were designed to inflict damage instead of protecting vehicles and their occupants.

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Trump Disciples like Beckom yearn for those days.

Men and women are different?….go figure!

Want to save money, let’s just use female crash test dummies in the future. See, problem solved.

Wait, he is risking his political career by admitting that there is a difference between male and female?? I call that a Freudian slip. If you don’t know what that is check it out…

Would you be more comfortable with green M&Ms?

misogynist pig

See what the left just did. Like LGB, then T, then the rest of the alphabet, they just moved the goalpost and created an entirely new divisive issue over … crash…test…dummies. This is what the Marxist left does, find an issue and weaponize it for divisive politics.

But then, if you are of the mindset that does not care about women, this makes perfect sense. Sheesh!

How would a “female” crash test dummy differ from a “male” one?

What a load of BS from the divisive left. We know there are different size CTDs to represent family groups. If the engineers, scientists and analysts thought they needed a more anatomically correct dummy I’m pretty sure they would have pressed the issue long ago. They don’t need a director with no experience in the field and a political agenda to tell them how to do their jobs.

Women have been left out of medical studies throughout history, along with everything else. If you don’t understand the importance of seeing how our bodies react to trauma in order to help with safe design and choose to mock the idea, then you have a problem with women.

I thought he was gay. That’s a toxic misogynist ploy.