• FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Oh yeah, my partner was telling me the other day that they never really bothered to crash test with female dummies and that's why so many women tended to get seriously injured over men

    It's absolutely bananas how little people care about women even though they're always freaking out about them

    • TillieNeuen [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Yup! If I set the seatbelt as low as it will go, it still runs across the bottom of my neck, which can't be good. As for the crash test dummies, the "woman" and "child" crash test dummies they use--when they bother to use them--are just scaled-down "man" crash test dummies, so they don't even accurately show how an actual woman or child's body reacts in a crash. The weight distribution, skeletal density, musculature, etc is all off.