she/they. formerly ughhniam🥸
Meet the female mechanic trying to disrupt the male dominated auto-industry for good
In 2011, Philadelphia native Patrice Banks had been working as an engineer for 10 years when she realized that while she may be an expert at diagnosing what was wrong with the equipment in her company’s lab, when it came to what was under the hood of her car she was completely lost.
So Banks posted an informal Facebook poll, asking her female friends to name their No. 1 knowledge gap. They overwhelmingly returned the same answer: car maintenance. “That was my ‘aha!’ moment.”
I love this.
My sister told me about how whenever she has car issues and goes to the mechanic with her boyfriend the mechanics always completely ignore her and talk directly to Tony. And it’s my sisters car! And her money they’re getting! And he’s just there for emotional support because being treated like you’re not deserving of communication is emotionally exhausting! I think about it all the time.
So anyway I’m very in support of burying men in fields they have cultivated and dominated because fuck ‘em.
Good good good good
I love this concept so much, the car industry needs more of this. Tear down the disgusting misogyny and racism that plagues this industry already please