Sunday, October 25, 2009

Minivans

So, I recently did a lot of driving this week and i've been trying to watch out and see how much I reinforce Heteronormativity. Let me start this by saying that I am not a slow driver, especially on the highway. With all the driving I did, I realized that anytime I got behind a minivan that was going slow (for me atleast) I would get mad and assume it was some soccer mom. If I finally got to pass them, more often that not, it was a man driving. Which honestly really surprised me. I also talked to my mom about this, who drives a minivan, and she said it makes her so mad when people assume because you drive a minivan, you drive slow. That got me thinking that whenever I see a truck, I assume the driver is a man, which also isn't always the case.

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