Wednesday 14 August 2013

Unfair toward female mechanics!

The stereotypes of female auto mechanics is greatly over exaggerated!  When I ask you to close your eyes and picture a female mechanic most men and even some women will picture a girl in nothing but her bikini holding a wrench leaded up against a vehicle, with her hair done up all nicely and with beautiful make up on! Like in the music video by dustin lynch She Cranks My Tractor. 
There is no women who would really do their work looking like this!! It's ridiculous! See the high heels? I do not think it would even be possible to work like that! Not to mention dangerous! Of course men would think that it's sexy but I do not think that it's even practical. Is it worth it? who just works on vehicles know that you do not work on vehicles in just your bikini or barely any clothing! Frankly it is just unsafe in the first place and also would be pretty uncomfortable. Ladies would you really want to be constantly worrying if you have a boob that's going to come out? 
No of course not if you love what you do and that's being a mechanic you would want to worry about getting the part you need or looking for that specific tool and getting your job done! 
Te safest things and most practical things to wear are, steel toe boots
some long work pants
and a tshirt that doesn't have a bunch of cleavage showing! 
 It baffles to me see how men stereotype women in the male dominant careers! When I started telling people that I wanted to go to school to become a mechanic many of the guys I went to high school with would laugh at me cause of course it's ridiculous that a girl wants to become an amazing mechanic! Of course men have some advantages over women in the mechanic field, strength for an example! When I change the oil in my car I always get my father to tighten the oil filter because he has more gripe than me and can high tighten it more than I can. But that will not stop me! I start school in a couple of weeks and I will give it my 100% and try to be at the top of the class! 
All that I want in the world is for women being able to become a mechanic without any discrimination! There is alot of women out there who want to be a mechanic yet cannot because they do not want to experience the discrimination! To me it's an amazing thing for women getting their hands dirty and doing their own dirty work! Even if women don't want to be a mechanic as a career I think that they should at least be able to work on their own vehicle! Just to have their own independence! 

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