90Q 4sale OR need parts.....surely not to a woman

[WAUFX at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/3/01 4:57:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, cobram at juno.com 
writes:

> There was a lister interested in buying the car, but he's going for a
>  different model now, so here's a brutally honest look at the car I put up
>  on a page:
>  
>  http://www.angelfire.com/80s/90q/

well well well. You're obviously not interested in selling this car to "a 
women" (sic) since on your website you say "This was driven by a women, curb 
marks on all wheels". I was seriously considering buying your car, I have 
been 90 scouting for a few months now and a $1500 selling price is pretty 
attractive, considering the decent shape your car is in.  But I'm going to 
have to pass. Just when I thought I finally found a wonderful resource like 
the Q-list is to educate myself about cars without hearing the "my dog drives 
better than my wife and girls can't work on cars" speeches, some hammerhead 
like yourself comes along with asinine comments like the one on your website. 
I saddens me to say that you are the first lister I have run into that clings 
fast to this archaic belief. Every lister and most Audi dudes I have met so 
far have never made an issue out of my gender and have been more than 
receptive about yapping Audi and helping me learn about the cars I am so 
enamored of. This list really is an amazing resource and I have learned 
countless amounts of information that I wouldn't have been able to learn as 
easily elsewhere, and for this I am truly grateful. 

But I digress...why do you think most women can't drive as well as their male 
counterparts? It is surely not that we physically or mentally can't. Rather, 
it is that virtually no one bothers to really teach women how to drive 
coupled with the attitudes surrounding women's abilities to drive, which are 
only promoted by your comments. By the way, "women" is the plural form of 
"woman". It is either "a woman" (meaning one woman) or "women" (meaning more 
than one woman). Your sentence should gramatically read either "This was 
driven by a woman, curb marks on all wheels" or "This was driven by women, 
curb marks on all wheels". But then again, some might argue that your sad 
little sentence should have never been allowed to depart your confused gray 
matter.....

Megan

P.S. I don't want this to turn into a flaming huge list brouhaha about 
political correctness and such which drags on for weeks and weeks and can 
only be extinguished by "a nice man with a big fire extinguisher", as was the 
case with poor Alex's car. :^) But I just couldn't keep my mouth shut on this 
one.