MY RANT AGAINST MALE DESIGN ENGINEERING

I have a 1994 Pontiac Grand Am. The fools designed it so you literally have to climb up and out to get out of the blasted thing. VERY poor engineering. Especially tricky for those of us who aren't anorexic.

I think a lot of the male designers get too caught up in appearance and don't pay attention to function. Example: Women's restrooms, placement of light switches, size of cabinet shelves, on & on & on.

In women's restrooms, the stalls are fine if you're just standing there, but women have to maneuver a lot differently than men, we're generally wider than men, and a lot of times have little kids in there with us too. There is NEVER enough room unless you go to the handicapped stall, then you need a ladder to get to the toilet.

THEN they come along and hang a paper dispenser as big as a spare tire right in the space where your arm goes, so it's dang near impossible to not injure yourself just trying to get your clothes up & down.

They always have the soap & towels five or ten feet from each other/and/or the sink, and light switches are never in a convenient location. (Even in my sister's modular home, the light switches are in the middle of the room, and it's only a few years old!)

I will say they are doing somewhat better with electrical receptacles than they did in the past, but they could still improve on that account too. They are never spaced right, or at the right height. For instance, in the kitchen I have to pull the microwave out to plug/unplug any other appliance. Why they couldn't have placed them two inches higher is beyond me. It's just frustrating as hell.

They put the ones in the living room & bedroom down by the floor, which is fine if you have no furniture, and LOOKS nice, but for those of us that do have furniture, 99% of the stuff in the house is electrical/electronic, so we frequently end up crawling around in the floor, and/or moving furniture, having extension cords everywhere, etc.

When I formerly worked in a prestigious law office, I was in a fashionable and elegant building that the other firms called "the palace". It really was refined, crystal chandelier, curved staircase, etc. Beautiful but not one bit conducive to WORK.

They had installed track lighting, which would be fine at a home show, but sitting at the receptionist desk, you could barely see the page in front of you. I nearly went blind. It was literally THE Poorest lighting I've EVER seen, bar none, and they had spent MILLIONS on the blasted building. Mickey Mouse could have installed better lighting.

When I lived in a former apartment, the upper cabinets were ALL 9" tall! You couldn't even get a box of cereal in there. At first, I thought they must be adjustable, but NO, they are like that for life. I even called the manufacturing company and complained, not that it probably did any good. It was highly apparent that the person who designed them liked things symmetrical, but had NEVER opened a cabinet door in his own house.

I'm STILL angry over that little stupidity. Yes, they LOOKED great, but were totally worthless, you cannot scrunch down every dish, box & can to fit in that pretty little even shelf design. This was a classic example of totally ridiculous and NON-functional engineering!

I don't mean to be sexist, but NO woman would ever design any of these things the way men have, and they would make things MUCH more functional and User-Friendly!