To quote Peter Griffin from the hit cartoon show "Family Guy", "You know what really grinds my gears?" Ill tell you want does, people in America who bitch about how horrible everything is. Thats what grinds my fucking gears. Oh, the war, oh the poverty, oh global warming...okay...I get it.

The world is messed up. But has there ever really been a time in the history of humanity when people didn't think it was fucked up???? If you think there was ever an easy time to live, or a perfect world, a Utopia or Garden of Edin, read more and get your head out of your ass. Its always been fucked. And, to tell you the truth, I, personally, would not live in any other time but now. Petty as they may be, here are 6 reasons I thought of, in no particular order, why I would NOT rather live any time but now, my beloved 21st Century:

1. Indoor plumbing

   I mean, it must have been amazing watching all the immigrants build the Empire State Building or the Manhattan Bridge in the early 1900s in the newly developing land of opportunity. But, lets face it, New York had to smell like SHIT. I dont say that figuratively, I mean there was literally human feces running down the streets of Manhattan. I would much rather get pistol whipped on 140th and Lexington and have all my money and clothing stolen than have to deal with the smell of human filth.

2. Air-Conditioning

   I don't know about you, but I love me some central air. Don't get me wrong, I like nice weather, but this 90 degree and muggy or 104 in the city in early August, fuck that. Count me out. Im either swimming in a lake, at the beach, or sitting on my leather sectional with the air blasting making it 60 degrees as I drink an ice-cold Bell's Two Hearted Ale with my head on a beautiful girls lap as I listen to Shoney Lamar play "You are my moonshine." Fans just dont cut it, by the way. I like that arctic blast.

3. Refrigerator/Freezers

   Speaking of arctic blast, without refrigerators or freezers we would not have food brought to us at our convince. I would not be able to go to Costco or BJs or Sams Club or whatever you call those bulk warehouse stores and buy a year supply of chicken and steak for a total of $75 dollars. Without it, you couldnt store ice-cream for weeks so when you are coming back from the bar or just chilling watching a movie you can walk ten steps to your kitchen and grab a delicious, cold, mouth-water treat to accompany you on the couch. And, finally, it MAKES ice. There is nothing better than cold water and ice makes water cold. If water were an invention, I would put it on this list. For fucks sake, its the only thing in the world when I solid form floats upon its liquid self...thats AWESOME...not to mention, our bodies are 70% water and the earth is 75% water, so, if you dont like it, you should go out with some class and shoot yourself with a shotgun.

4. Television

   I'm not a huge fan of TV, but, let's face it, TV was the first step toward globalization of all peoples. It allows people to know whats going on in other peoples lives...not to mention, it made people more interested in other people and what their lives were like, therefore, causing teens from all around the world and nation to want to travel to cities where they meet new people from all over...I like that. Plus if you ever are feeling down you can always turn on "I Love New York" or one of her other spin-off and say, "Thank Fucking God Ill never be as fucked up or stupid as that bitch." Probably wont be as rich ever, but who cares. I would pay $100 a day for the rest of my life not to be like her...not to mention I like being a guy.

5. Airplanes

   In what other time can you say, "Hmmmm...I feel like going to Thailand today." And then follow the thought up with, "God, I dont know, it takes so long to get there. I really dont feel like sitting on a plane for 18 hours." 18 HOURS! Walt Whitman would have a heart-attack, him being all surprised you could go to India in three weeks or some shit. Having to drink your own urine at times just to stay hydrated enough to make it all the way. People dying on the way from dysentery. Fuck the passage to India, what up on the passage to Thailand, or Croatia, or Alaska, or anywhere in the entire world? If being on a plane for 18 hours while sitting next to a fat guy who smells on your way to Thailand is the worst thing that happens in your life, I think you'll be okay...

6. The Internet

   Im not a blogger, like I said, but, man, the internet is the shit. You can get anything you want without leaving your home. That is if you choose to be the lazy american that most of you fucks are...seriously, groceries, pizza, clothing, movies, music, the news, a plumber, a new air conditioning unit, a television (or just watch TV at hulu.com), airplane tickets, hell, even an airplane if you had enough loot. oh yeah, last but definitely not least, sex. Im not talking porno sights, Im talking dating or just straight up escort service type sex. Personally, I dont use that shit cause I think its lame and I dont pay for sex, well, not directly...dating is like prostitution, only, with dating, sometimes you dont get what you paid for...but thats besides the point. The internet allows lonely people with no communication skills what-so-ever to still get laid. how can you hate on that? its just creating love, man. On top of that, where else could I write this bull-shit and actually have someone listen to me? well, besides the bar, but I said write not speak.

So, in conclusion, stop bitching America. You dont have it that bad. Just because we are lead by a tyrannical, homophobic, alcoholic, coke-head, cheerleader, things will be okay. If you ever feel like grinding my gears again just take my advice. Go to the bar, grab a beer, sit back, call your lady-friend, dance, go home and make love, have sex and fuck all in one session. After go to your fridge, pour a glass of ice-water, turn of the TV, lay back and look at the ceiling, think about how much you need to save up for your next vacation on the other side of the world and repeat my friend Nathan Irish's undeniable words of wisdom, "If this is the worst thing that happens today, I think ill be okay."

PS I also am happy I will be here when a bunch of apocalyptic happenings occur. WWIII, Global Warming, the end of the Mayan Calendar, etc. To quote Jim Morrison, "I just wanna get my kicks in before the whole shit-hole goes up in flames!!"

Love, especially romantic love is typically seen to be the privilege of the higher primates, humans. When animals are fiercely attached to another one of their species, doting, grooming, and engaged in passionate lovemaking, they are said to be in heat, instinctually reacting to a rush of hormones.

What would animals reckon if we told them that only the higher primates of the family Hominidae could practice altruism? Probably they would have a good giggle. Altruism is not uncommon in the animal world. Even bacteria exhibit altruism.

Salmonella bacteria sacrifice themselves for the greater good of the other members of their species. Entering the digestive tract of humans, they discover a hostile world as other bacteria have dug themselves into strategic positions. Then the salmonella "select" one in six microbes during cell division as a reconnaissance party. By digging into the human intestinal tissues, they cause the human defence system to flood the tract with repellents. They die as a result of this, but this clears away all the other bacteria, when massive colonization by other salmonella can begin.

Does love require self-sacrifice?

Ask any mother and she will tell how motherly love involves self-sacrifice. Research by Felix Warneken and colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology show that Chimpanzees often help other species, also humans without any expectation of reward. Dogs often adopt orphaned human babies, squirrels, cats, and even tiger cubs.  Dolphins habitually support sick or injured animals by swimming under them and pushing them to the surface to help them breathe.  One extreme example of altruism is the Stegodyphus spider, with a unique system of matriphagy. When the Stegodyphus spider offspring is mature enough, it actually eats the mother.

The great evolutionist Charles Darwin in his Theory of Natural Selection, claimed that each species survives by being selfish and fiercely competitive. But, he also wrote in The Descent of Man (1871) "I have myself seen a dog, who never passed a cat who lay sick in a basket without giving her a few licks with his tongue. “ As a true scientist, he even considered these observations “insuperable, and actually fatal to my whole theory."

Have you ever considered why Neanderthal Man became extinct, while the physically weaker Cro-Magnon man survived and evolved?

James Shreeve, in The Neanderthal Enigma: Solving the Mystery of Modern Human Origins. New York: William Morrow & Co, 1995, tries to answer this question. He says that Neanderthal man was a prehistoric egomaniac. The inability to behave in an altruistic and cooperative manner towards other Neanderthals, especially the females and children of their own clans turned into a gigantic disadvantage.

The poignant cave paintings at Lascaux in France and Altamira in Spain show a distinct deviance from the “Ugh! I'll kill you”, approach of the Neanderthal Man. Women are venerated; animals are not seen as food alone, but as mythological being with a celestial connection.

Human culture arose from the Cro-Magnon man's (and woman's) ability to share experience, artefacts and values with others. Innovations and synergy developed in the Cro-Magnon man and helped them survive and evolve.

Being altruistic and helping others has great implications for the human race. As in the past, altruism will affect the very survival of the human race. We fare well, if we care.

As a species, can we choose to go the Neanderthal way or the Cro-Magnon way? Yes, but the choice is always individual.

The cultural part of the habitus basically refers to the culture we acquire during our life span. For example, museum visits, or going to the opera adds to our cultural stigma. Economic and cultural habitus are linked; meaning the acquirement of cultural goods is usually only possible with the use of money. One may also say, very simplified, that our social surroundings and family already define a person's habitus. A farmer will most likely not enjoy having a tea party with the bourgeoisie, nor will the opposite ever occur.

Having shortly introduced you to the “habitus”, stated by Bourdieu, it is time for the main topic for this short essay. The economic and cultural habitus, as declared before, are linked in the utmost manner. In today's society even more so. Simplified: our society is dominated by economic values. Materialism and capitalism rule our world like never before. Never before has the act of owning luxurious goods been as dominant.

A short example, which involves the small telephone we call “cell phone”.

This little gadget is a miniature, portable telephone, which ought to enable us, the consumers, to be able to communicate with everyone contained in our social network. I do not want to criticize this feat in any way whatsoever, for it can be a very useful tool. It can be life saving, as well as a documentary tool (audio/video/photographic), yet it is predominantly used for communicational purposes, as well as information seeking purposes. Nothing against that.

So, you may ask, what am I striving at? The thing is, as mentioned before, our society has been invoked with a materialistic mentality. Many people, in the “middle class society” and “high society” mostly, have the economic means to buy a new cell phone every day. Of course that is absurd. No one in his or her right mind would do that. It takes about a week to understand how these little things actually WORK. So, of course no one does that. Even if they could, they wouldn't. A lot of people do buy a cell phone every year, or whenever they feel like their present possession may not be at the highest standard. “Highest standard”, what does that mean? Most widgets possible? Easiest way to be handled? Most secure against accidents?

Basically, it would mean that the latest technologies have been used in these little machines. So basically, the concept of these machineries is totally put in question. Communicational requirements are no longer top priority. Health, security, safety, and guarantee (of over one year) are no longer issues. The better the machines, the more fragile they seem to get, and of course, the more widgets it has, the longer it takes to understand them, the longer the person is exposed to it, which leads to, you guessed it, health issues. The University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, United States of America) stated that cell phones, when under extreme exposure, may lead to certain health factors, meaning consequential diseases or illnesses. 

Disregarding the fact that the health factor is partly scary, the main critique is not the high technology invoked in these machines. It is the mass consumption and materialistic mentalities of the majority of the people in our society. Is it, in fact, a replacement to a certain emotion called “happiness”, or something else? Do people try to stack as many luxurious goods in their home to replace something? Goods that are not existentially necessary?

It is a fact that our society does not have to question existentiality, nor even think about it. Our society is a luxury society, where materialism replaces certain “holes”.

To cut things short, the shimmering light of “money”, concerning their work, the materialistic mentality, and of course the consumerism, blinds people. When someone would come up to me and tell me about a job offer they have received, the first thing said is the amount of money they'd get, not what the job is specifically about. And that depresses the hell out of me. Certain values do not have the correct priority anymore. That is the way our present society runs.

1. Kleenex

   
   
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   The proper term is "facial tissue" and Kleenex is the brand name. In this writer's opinion, this is the most common brand name used in replace of the item. On school supply lists it even states "2 boxes Kleenex" and yet when you send a generic brand they don't complain. It literally meant the facial tissue and not the brand name.

2. Pampers

   
   
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   Otherwise known as "diapers;" Pampers is the brand name for disposable diapers meant for infants. But often even adult disposable undergarments are called "pampers." Coincidentally, Depends® is a brand name for adult disposable undergarments but often used as a word meaning any adult disposable undergarment.

3. Coke

   
   
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   I came across this one after I moved to New Mexico from Wisconsin. In the north we drank "pop" and a Coke meant a Coca-Cola. On my first date after my move to New Mexico the fellow asked me if I wanted to stop after the movies for a coke. I agreed, and we stopped at Sonic Drive-In. He promptly ordered a drink that had not one ounce of Coke in it. When I questioned him he said "coke" meant anything to drink. It didn't even have to be carbonated. Coca Cola is a derivative of coca leaves and kola nuts. The inventor changed the "k" to a "c" for appearance. The word Coke has become a nickname of sorts.

4. Arm & Hammer

   
   
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   Perhaps a lesser used brand name replacement is this brand for baking soda. I have heard a handful of people say they need to be some "arm and hammer" and it is often combined like one word. The name and logo is based on the arm and hammer of the Vulcan, the Roman God of fire and metalworking.

5. Tylenol

   
   
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   Unlike its counterparts, Aleve or Bayer for example, Tylenol has been used to replace any pain-relieving medication whether it is with or without aspirin.

6. Xerox

   
   
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   Derived from the term "xerography" which is a word derived from the Greek xeros (dry) and graphos (writing). The company was founded as The Haloid Company in 1906, launched its first XeroX copier in 1949, and changed its name to Haloid Xerox in 1958. The brand name of the machine is Xerox and the actual machine itself is a "photo copier." But, often in offices it is heard "Xerox me a copy" or something similar.

7. Google

   
   
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   While not so much a brand name as service name, Google is synonymous with a search engine, despite it offering other services. It is so popular that many internet users simply state "Google it" when they mean "search for it." It has even been used in movies and television. Google is a deliberate misspelling of the word "googol" which reflects the company's mission of organizing the massive amounts of information online.

8. Nabs

   
   
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   Here in the south, it is common to hear someone say "I want a pack of Nabs." What they mean is any small package of cheese or peanut butter filled cracker snacks. The real Nabs were put out by the Nabisco company but have been gone since 1928. Today, Lance is the pre-dominant cracker company in the south but no one asks for "a pack of Lances."

9. Ouija

   
   
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   Often this name is not even realized as being misused. Parker Brothers has created their own version of what is really known as a spirit board, psychic board or talking board. Ouija is the name of their product much like Monopoly or Scrabble.

10. Play-Doh

    
    
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    A soft and pliable product, this colored dough is great fun for children of all ages. No one even seems to know what the call the stuff if not by its brand name of Play-Doh. Modeling clay is perhaps the most accurate term for this fun product. But, Play-Doh has become synonymous with the clay and if you say you are buying "Play-Doh" everyone knows what you mean.

11. Legos

    
    
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    Again, this toy's brand name has become synonymous to mean the toy. Legos is a brand name and the product is a building block, often with the word "connecting" preceding it. But ask any child what Legos are and they will know immediately.

12. Nike

    
    
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    The 80's and 90's saw the emerging popularity of the Nike shoe. So popular is the shoe that is has come to mean any pair of tennis or athletic shoe.

So there you have it, brand names that get misused as the product name. When these companies no longer exist or no long produce the product will people still refer to them as Kleenex, or Nikes or ask for a Coke and a pack of Nabs? Probably so, for as they say, "old habits die hard."

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Polygamy is defined as taking more than one partner or spouse in marriage. It is derived from specialized studies in Anthropology and other Social Sciences.

History

Polygamy has been around for centuries in many countries around the globe. This practice is quite common in the Middle East, China, Mongolia, the Canadian Arctic, North and South Africa, and the Caribbean. It is usually practiced by "highly patriarchal societies".

Are you familiar with the term "Polyandry"?

This is the term for women that are married to one or more spouse at the same time. Typically, Polyandry was practiced in parts of China and Tibetans in Nepal. Frequently, brothers would share the same woman sexually and were given equal access to her at all times. The woman would choose this type of arrangement to keep the money and the land all within the family.

Polyandry is most typical in populations with limited amounts of resources.

A perfect example of this would be Africa. Typically woman will take on one or more partners or husbands so that her children will have more resources for survival. In contrast, with Polygamy, the man could impregnate more than one of his wives at the same time and have limited resources to promote the survival of the many children.

Controversy

Tibetans that try to sustain this way of life find it quite difficult. Anthropologists that have studied these groups have found that the Polyandrists themselves believe it more beneficial to the child to have more than one father. They believe that having more than one father opens the doors to more opportunity and different social statures.

"Over time, Tibetan polyandry has been outlawed, so it is difficult to measure the incidence of polyandry in what may have been the world's most "polyandrous" society."

Continued in Animals are from Mars, Insects are from Venus Part 2

 

 

Look around any bar these days and older ladies are mixing freely with their less mature counterparts. They work out, wear designer gear, look after their skins and are not afraid of chatting up younger guys.

Jane, 51, has no intention of growing old sitting on her own at home: '' It's nothing to do with your birth date, it's about how you feel inside, '' she says, ''I exercise my mind and my body and rarely stay still for long.''

''I take up new interests all the time,'' she says, ''like dance classes, or hill walking. I love travelling and theatre, as well as socialising in town.''

Fifty plus celebrities like Sharon Osbourne and Kim Cattrall would no doubt agree that with the right attitude you can forget your age and just get on with life. One of the advantages of being older is you get to know and accept yourself, and stop worrying about what other people think. A quality men find really appealing in women, whatever their age.

Sharon Stone and Tina Turner don't bide by the unspoken rule that states women must stop being sexy and adventurous after a certain point. They don't see the reasoning behind a society that seems to demand they crawl into a corner and become invisible!

They feel more powerful and self assured than at any other time in their lives, because they've experienced so much of life and come out the other side with tons more confidence.

Patricia is 60 this year and dismisses the embarrassment factor as a problem other people have: ''I'll be wearing a bikini on holiday this year, despite my middle age spread. This is me and I just think life is too short to worry about what the rest of the world chooses to think.''

Lots of people will tell you these technologies have enriched our lives. We have forms of entertainment people didn't have a dream for 50 years ago. We have the ability to communicate quickly and effectively as never before. Unlike 50 or even 100 years ago, we can talk to someone in Japan if we want to, and it would be not unheard of. Technology, it seems, has made our lives easier. Because of technology, most Americans have leisure time. Most Americans can work with computers, the clean and relatively simple alternative to hard labor. Compared with generations before, it is not as hard to work for a living. Or so it seems.

It is 2008, and I find myself wondering one simple thing: are our lives really simpler for technology, or are they more complicated? By being able to create and manipulate advanced technologies, are we free to live life? Or do they somehow keep us more strained and trapped than ever? It is 2008, and I find myself wondering, “If Thoreau were alive today, what would he say?” I doubt he would call us advanced, or even wise. Rather than try and free ourselves from the constraints of society and trying to pay for a life, we have become more imprisoned. To him, we would look like nothing more than dressed up indentured servants.

Just as in Thoreau's day when he accused man of being “a tool of his tools,” and chained to his possessions, we are no different. Technology may have made this servitude more pleasant - perhaps beautiful - but don't let sleekness fool you. The computers on our desks sit like dictators there, reminding us to punch in one more key; send one more e-mail; crank out one more line of code. We are no different than the store clerks in Massachusetts looking more like aesthetics, then human beings. And don't forget, our cell phones always need tending, checking, and recharging. Forget that, and dysfunction becomes your friend.

In the mid-1800s, when Thoreau was writing, he complained that man was working to earn a living, rather than living one. He railed against the idea that man should work for his life, rather than possess it. And man, according to Thoreau, is convinced he has no choice but to work, because in order to “have a life,” man must possess certain things. He must possess a house, a car, and things to fill up the house or decorate it that is better than what his neighbor has. Without these things, man is told that he is not really living. That he cannot possibly be comfortable with anything less. After all, how is he supposed to hold his head up high, with less than excess? He buys up the house, the car, and his knickknacks, and sets about enjoying them. But once he has them, he is not really enjoying them. He could not afford these things to begin with, and so he must earn them. So he works to pay for his life, with more items of convenience being added all the time.

“These things will make my life better,” the working man tells himself, “already, they have made my life more enjoyable.” He looks around, satisfied. Satisfied enough, to say he has them. They light his eye pleasantly when he rises in the morning to go off to work. Their sparkling and metallic grace is enough for him. He leaves with humility, remembering that they are the reason he works. They are the reason he will work until he can do it no more. For his things, he would gladly give up his life. He has not become the God of his things, but his things have become God of him. And though he should find issue with this, he does not. He goes about his day thinking about the things he possesses, thinking not one moment about grander ambitions or cultivating his mind and spirit.

The man says he doesn't particularly like working. If he didn't have to do it, he wouldn't. But working so hard won't last forever, he assures himself and others, he'll just work long enough to get the comfortable house and furniture and the knickknacks, and then he won't work anymore. He won't lift another finger. Yes, he will work just long enough to pay for these things, but that is all he will have. He will work long enough to die. He will be paying on his good life until he has no more life left. Until he realizes that he does not need to get a life to live a life, he will be trapped.

Man must have his independence. Thoreau knew this. On July 4th, 1845, he raised his cabin on Walden Pond. It was a demonstration of his freedom from capitalism-a freedom we could all have-if we were brave enough to live simply. So on this July 4th, 165 years later, you might take some time to think: What does this day mean to me? What will I do to declare my independence? From this day forward, how will I make my living?

It could be the lullaby affect the waves have on the locals, the spell our beloved mountain casts on us or maybe there is something in the water. Whatever it is, getting good quality service in Cape Town, generally speaking, seems to be something of a mythological beast compared to the service received in other South African cities like Johannesburg.

While the slow paced lifestyle we have so carefully cultivated offers holiday makers an enchanting break from the rat race, for the people who live here, it's slightly less than enchanting. When hungry resturaunteers are unable to place a modified order at a restaurant without it getting muddled up or arriving half an hour later than specified, holiday makers are inclined to say something like "oh, how quaint", but the live-ins get a chance to improve on their language skills with more colourful and creative expressions. This in turn makes the whole restaurant experience unpleasant for both the people who deliver the delayed meal or bad service as well as for the people placing their orders.

If drivers got speeding fines for driving too slowly, perhaps the need to do things faster would filter into the Cape Town attitude that is both loved and hated. Consider this: commuters start by driving to work in the morning, living up to the "slower is better" driving reputation that the Kaapies seem to have inherited. This starts the day off in much the same way as a tortoise's might, and carries on at much the same pace. Phone calls never get made, emails take twice as long to be sent, paint dries and the grass grows...but doesn't get cut.

Then there are the times when you need that urgent report done by the end of the day, and the specialist in your office assures you that he or she is working on it. You just happen to pass their desk on the way to get a glass of water and notice that they are playing solitaire. It really does seem sometimes that Cape Town's motto should be something like "Why work when you can play?”.

While it is refreshing to be excluded from the soul crushing rat race the rest of the world seems to be caught up in, and allowing yourself to have a bit fun while you work, it would be nice to know that when your estate agent says that someone will be there at 9 o'clock the next morning to fix that broken window, the relevant person is actually there at 9 o'clock the next morning to fix that broken window, necessary tools included.

For consumers who would like to lodge complaints, or compliments, about the service you receive, we have a tool of our own - the Internet. You can either go to the relevant company's website, they usually have at least a contact form you can fill out, or you can try going to www.hellopeter.com. This site offers Internet users the chance to log their complaints or compliments online. Suppliers and other Internet users read what has been logged and some suppliers respond accordingly. You are informed of the companies that respond and the ones that don't. It's worth posting gripes even if the supplier is not included in the list of suppliers who respond, word of mouth gets around and they will lose customers, this should give them a...motivational aspect to work on.

All said and done, not EVERYTHING in Cape Town is done at a snail's pace or with slightly less than expected competence levels. There are some gems of the service world out there; we just seem to have difficulty striking a balance between the two. At least we get a chance relax and breathe in the life that swarms around us every day, even go on the odd lunch break once in a while. So, while we sit around waiting for those fabled good things to happen, why don't you try and phone home affairs for the 6th time and see if your replacement ID book is ready?

Women will watch traffic carefully and act preventively as far as I am concerned but so do men. It is difficult to say that women follow the rules of road more than men do. I also think that when it comes to being under the influence of alcohol both men and women drive under the influence and this makes them both responsible. I do think that the average woman drinker will drink less than the average drinking guy making him more dangerous for drunk driving. before driving Perhaps someone does have accurate enough statistics that they can say men are more apt to be in an accident behind a wheel than women because of the alcohol in their blood.

I do think that women can be as easily distracted from the road as they can focus and such was the case in a recent family drive out of the city, where a female member of the family always wavered in her distance from a following family car even though she insisted she kept the same distance. The issue in question was a family trip where one car had to follow another to get to the same road exit on the way to a family occasion.

Men I think can be better navigators and historically there have been more men than women doing that. Navigating means in this case knowing where a turn off is before getting there. Women on the other hand, I think go more by instinct and then probably will recall a location just as a man would. I think that instinct is not as accurate as having the talent to look at a man and know directions before getting to the final destination. Here I am not saying that all women are instinctive on the road and lack a certain rationality but I have come across more women who were indecisive behind the wheel then men when it came to finding a turn off or knowing which highway to take.

Women tend to find their location by remembering something visual about what their destination was, especially if they have to return there. Men on the other hand tend to think more analytically by remembering road turn-offs and location crossroads. This phenomenon has been studied psychologically. The way of finding a final location does not make either the man or woman a better driver but if the visuals around a location are going to change as happens when there are new buildings erected in the region perhaps the better method of getting to a final place is by remembering a road name and not what the buildings around looked like. This would make males better drivers because they would hesitate less behind the wheel and be more confident about finding a location they have to drive to.