(Car crash dummies are based on so-called average men.)50 She then told me about how, in a group for women engineers, someone had called out the women who were getting promoted for acting like men. “So now these women who have had to do this in order to get ahead are being criticized,” she said. “And I’m like, I get it? I don’t know. I’ve been on both sides.” I nodded, realizing something out loud. “It’s almost like the car seat, but as a metaphor. It’s like you’re trying to make yourself more man-shaped in order to not die in the car.”
