Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has proposed that the
Department of Transportation include $20
million for female crash-test dummies in its 2024 fiscal budget. That Buttigieg-- famous for his
love of females though he may be-- wants to spend vast sums of taxpayer dollars
on feminine crash dummies seems odd in the current cultural climate in
which we salute all things non-binary.
Nonetheless, Mayor Pete’s proposal has already garnered support
from several House Democrats. For example, Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut praised
Buttigieg’s plan during a recent House Appropriations Subcommittee meeting. DeLauro stated
that the use of female crash dummies would be a major step forward in the fight
against “gender inequity”.
Say what? Unlike humans, who are either one sex or another,
crash dummies can’t be gendered…as they are not living beings. But, in
today’s world, nothing can stand in the way of insanity.
How will manufacturers make crash
dummies “female?” Will they be shorter and lighter? Have big breasts and wear lipstick?
Carry a purse? Will they tell the “male” crash dummies to slow down and ask for
directions? This would seem kind of stereotypical and/or misogynistic in this
day and age, wouldn’t it?
How can we even have female crash
test dummies if we don’t even know what an actual woman is?
And who’s to say “female”
crash dummies don’t identify as male? Particularly since they are
arbitrarily “assigned” their gender at birth when they are made.
In the interest of fairness,
diversity, equity, and inclusion, if we are to spend millions on “female” crash
test dummies we should also utilize taxpayer cash to make anogender,
two-spirited, bisexual, and polysexual dummies, right?
Oh, wait, crash test dummies
are already—and immutably-- non-binary and non-sexual because they aren’t flesh
and blood. Or alive.
Who are the dummies now?
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