Its Not A Drag!

Why Men Are Obsessed With Drag Racing

By
Relationship Advice Expert April Masini

Q: Dear April Masini,

I just started dating a guy who is obsessed with drag racing. I don’t get it at all and think drag racing is a dangerous and dumb hobby. His friends all love it and get mad when I talk negatively about it. Can you explain the fun of it?


Sincerely,

What a Drag

A:

Dear What a Drag,

Cars are to men what shoes are to women. 

Drag racing is to men what shoe shopping is to women. 

Don't get the analogy? Let me go further: Men have always had a love affair with cars. Little boys love to play with cars, and grown men do, too. Drag racing is as close as intimate as you can get with a car. You're inside it, driving it, with a combination of reckless abandon and control. Sound like anything else men like to do?

The equivalent for women would be wearing a pair of Jimmy Choos to a public event and being admired. 

The competition is tacit and implicit. The bravado is hawked without a word. 

There is no other activity, besides drag racing, that better exemplifies the American man at his manliest. 

April Masini -- nicknamed "the new millennium's Dear Abby" by the media, is author of the best-selling books Date Out Of Your League and Think & Date Like A Man, the two (just released) step-by-step dating and relationship manuals, Ideas for a Fun Date and Romantic Date Ideas, and the critically acclaimed dating and relationship online magazine www.AskApril.com.

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