Women Drivers: Difference between revisions

* Averted hard in ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'', all the best drivers/riders in the series (Chihiro, Megumi and Belldandy) are women. Even the American off road racing champion that Aoshima hired in one episode was a woman. The only notable male driver is Keiichi.

* Subverted in ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' - while Yukari is the most ''dangerous'' driver on the face of the earth, no other women shown driving are depicted this way.

* Averted in [[Ronin Warriors]], Mia is actually very capable of driving (And is shown driving the team throughout the series and in the second OVA).

* Subverted in [[You're Under Arrest]], Natsumi's the only female shown to exhibit this "ability".

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39qdhbkTko4&feature=related Look, Listen and Take Heed].

* Fiona in ''[[Burn Notice]]'' has invoked this trope to create a distraction. Michael's monologue mentions taking advantage of other people's preconceptions in order to [[Obfuscating Stupidity|Obfuscate with Stupidity]].

* [[Modern Family]]. Gloria gets into several car accidents in one episode and Haley has failed her driving test several times and runs over her father at one point. There's also a pediatrician who sucks but the joke is more based on her being Asian, not a woman.

* Trina from [[Victorious]] although this could be because she's so [[It's All About Me|egotistical]] that she thinks she's above the rules of the road.

* ''[[Laugh In]]'' had a joke about a feminist drive-a-thon being canceled, after all the participants got into their cars and promptly backed in to each other.

* In ''[[The Office]]'' (US version) episode "Diversity Day", everyone is supposed to treat the others as the race named on a card stuck to their forehead. Dwight demands that Pam treat him as his new ethnicity (Asian), so he could figure out what it was.

'''Dwight''': Aw, man! Am I a woman? }}

* Lisa Douglas of ''[[Green Acres]]'' plays this trope straight in an episode where she's forced to go to high school, though her lack of driving skills comes less from the fact that she's a woman then the fact that she's... well, [[Cloudcuckoolander|Lisa.]]

* Shows up in [[Doctor Who]], of all places. In "[[Doctor Who/Recap/2011 CS the Doctor the Widow and the Wardrobe|The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe]]", the 2011 Christmas special, the Doctor lands in 1938, wearing a space suit backwards, and is found by Madge Arwell. When Madge tries to drive the Doctor to the TARDIS, he comments that "We seem to bump into quite a lot of things" when she crashes to a stop. Her excuse: "Well, a lot of things get in the way, it's hardly my fault."

* Taken to an extreme with Lori Grimes in ''[[The Walking Dead]]'', who somehow manages to flip her car despite likely being '''''the only person driving on the entire planet''''' at that moment.

* The first time [[I Love Lucy|Lucy Ricardo]] gets behind the wheel of a car, she tries to make a U-turn in ''the Holland Tunnel''.

'''Lucy:''' Yeah... the police said the cars were backed up all the way to East Orange, New Jersey. }}

 

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