And when it comes to consumer safety, the tendency to treat privileged male bodies as the default may have far-reaching adverse outcomes. When women wearing seatbelts are involved in car crashes, they are 73 percent more likely than men to be killed or seriously injured. This appears to be due to the fact that, until very recently, all crash test dummies were modeled on cisgender men—ignoring potentially important differences between cis men and women in typical fat distribution, skeletal structure, and so on. When “female” crash test dummies were finally added, they were typically lighter and
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