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Family Guys: Asian Women Being Bad Drivers (Stereotype of women being bad…
Family Guys: Asian Women Being Bad Drivers
Stereotype of women being bad drivers
The stereotype:
Since the time people first started driving there has been a negative stereotype around a women's
driving ability.
Origins:
Before women were allowed to drive, it was customary for the wives of men to ride along in the car as trophies for their husbands. When women were finally able to drive the stereotype of the bad women diver was born.
The Facts:
Men account for 73.4% of fatal car crashes
https://youtu.be/mDAktBlDJrE
The bigger issue at hand
What's wrong with the Joke:
The joke made in the clip is racist and sexist. The voice actor does an offensive and inaccurate Asian which points to the idea that she is a bad driver based on her sex and race
The facts:
Data shows that neither of these stereotypes have any data to back them up.
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/motr/bad-drivers-no-just-bad-stereotypes.html
Effect of the Stereotype:
Science shows that the existence of the stereotypes make people drive worse .
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0001457515300786
Why it's funny:
We have grown up in a culture that assumes women and again people are inherently bad drivers. This causes us to find jokes that follow this stereotype to be funny as seen in the family Guy cut scene.
https://youtu.be/hlH9RGLJqxE
Transcript of Joke:
Peter Griffin: From now on, I too will be abstinent. I’ll be as untouched as the turn signal in an Asian women’s car.
Asian women: How much signal I need to cut across eight-lane? None? I turn now! Good luck everybody else!
About the Joke
:
Aired by fox on November 19, 2006. The Joke was a cutscene of Season 5, Episode 6 of Family Guy. This clip was seen as too vulgar and racist so and has been banded from reruns.
Voice actress:
Alex Borstein is a Chicago-born American actress. Who does a fake asain accent for this cutscene
Racism because of her ethnicity
A brief summary of the history of the stereotype:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fresh-off-the-boat-highlights-ridiculous-bad-asian-driver-stereotype-truly-is_n_5bdcaf99e4b04367a87c8a8e
Racism in Popular culture:
Regardless of what the numbers say popular culture still continues to push the idea of Asain people being bad drivers as seen in the urban dictionary definition of "Asain Driver"
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=asian%20driver
The facts say it all:
https://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1470901/heres-real-question-vancouver-why-are-non-asians-such-lousy-drivers
Racist Clip
https://twitter.com/FreshOffABC/status/1058403399090294785?s=20
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