Will old ‘joke’ about women drivers ever go away?

Why is it that mere mention of the gender of the person behind the wheel is enough to send us into a wisecracking sexist spin?

The news that Saudi Arabia will finally allow women to drive was greeted with jubilation, cynicism about that ultraconservative kingdom’s reason for reform, and something else —

sarcasm and a new take on a very old joke; the idea that there was something funny or dangerous about women in burqas taking the wheel.