Writer's Block: Department of Stereotypes

One of the most popular gender stereotypes is that women ask for directions while men would rather be lost than ask for help. In your personal experience, does this stereotype hold true?


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No.  The only stereotype that would hold true is that I prefer to drive rather than be a passenger, and Cimmy happens to like it that way.  I do have an expectation that the driver's side passenger help out-- to look both ways at intersections, to look over maps, and things like that.  Now I would also prefer to follow a map, but I'm not above stopping and asking for directions.  Now that I think of it, I don't quite understand how the stereotype is propagated.  Is it perceived to be threatening to a man's masculinity?

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