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Why Tesla's Model X kicks ass in parking.



The Tesla Model X doesn't just have wings. If it did, you'd need even more space for door opening than a typical side-hinge door. Instead, it has folding wings, and that's impressive.

If it weren't for my competing needs to either buy a house and/or go back to school, I'd be on the waiting list for the Model 3 (provided it's still a hatchback) in a heartbeat. I recommend they make the 3 more like a digital 3 that can be turned around by the car's owner, just to piss the Ford people off. Make the 3 look like a semi-warped Tesla logo - imagine taking that logo and wrapping the tops of the T around until they're in line with the base of the T. Possibly shorten the length of the base slightly to accommodate the pointy-ended E, er, I mean 3.

I do wonder, since I see it listed a lot as Model III, if they are planning on putting the Roman or the Arabic onto the car body. If they use the Roman turned on its side, it can be argued it's a 3 even though in could also be interpreted into an E just as easily.

Of course, Ford would NEVER allow there to be a Tesla Model T. I could totally see that as being some sort of all-electric work truck, which would sell really well to the truck-as-a-status-symbol folks here in Texas - you know, the ones that never actually use their trucks to haul anything ever yet still have the beefed up engine and wheels and grill, oh my.

Two Words

Agent Carter

"Still, today’s superheroines, like their female victim counterparts, are often unrealistic, sexualized representations of female figures, with large chests, curvaceous backsides and unattainable hourglass dimensions. Their skin-tight outfits accentuate their sexuality with plunging necklines and bare skin, and many of their names (e.g., Risque, Mystique, Ruby Summers) connote, shall we say, a slightly less respectable profession than superheroine."

I'm detecting some bias on the part of the author of that article, but the results of the scientific inquiry on which she's reporting aren't surprising.

This is why watching Agent Carter on television was very eye opening compared with other damsels in distress and superheroines alike. The show wasted no effort on putting up for naked display the prevailing attitudes of the time regarding women and their capabilities right from the beginning of the first episode. Another noticeable thing was how our heroine had to dress conservatively in a conservative society, while at the same time rocking an hour glass figure that ALL of the X-Men size two heroines should kill to have. Not to mention, her fighting garb is far from skin tight anything.

I would like to see these same tests run with stills of Agent Carter being the main focus, but the real one-two punch comes from watching the character in action. I think all girls and women should have a go at the show, because I actually think, even without scientific tests to back it up, that the show does a fine job of painting real-life heroism in a more correct light.