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aggressive driving, or cars that breakdown. On the surface we see them as just that, however, when those things are perceived as how they effect our driving philosophies, a whole new perspective is opened to us, some of these being issues of control and compliance, intimidation and fear, or plain patterns of self destructiveness. For instance, in class discussion we spoke of a few gender differences in driving. Some of the ideas that were shared were: Men are less likely to ask for directions and women find it more comfortable to do so. If a car breaks down, it is more expected of a man to know what to do and more expected of a woman to stand on the side of the road until help arrives. Men are more likely to criticize other drivers to where the other driver can hear them and women are more likely to criticize other drivers to themselves out of fear of retaliation. Women prefer their male counterparts to drive they ride as passengers. |
Demographics, I think are not as important as treating this problem as a whole. Instead of why men drive more aggressively than women, we should think about why people drive aggressively. Byquestioning the difference between men and women we are not trying to find a solution in my opinion, but instead just looking for more why's.
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My reaction to the email were of, "these people could be right depending on the situation we want to figure out. In Mr. Shintani's email this would be true of early research which was conducted but I feel that today more and more researches are developing better questions which refer to specific genders. With Brandi Ashby, I think she could be right, but more and more we are seeing women drive and act aggressively or are there many more which we do not see? With Wilfred Lee I think that there should be research on women and men differences in finding solutions except for some situations such as situations where there is no gender basis, such as speeding. As for Brisaacs I think that this person's comment was unnecessary and totally rude
Personally I feel that there are some gender differences between men and women, and these differences should be looked at in great detail. I feel this because of the fact that men and women handle situations in different ways, where women like to talk out their feelings and men focus on the topic at hand to figure it out. I think that this belief was internalized within me from I was very young where women liked to talk and men were of few words.
Re:Aggressive drivers... WOMEN
Posted by I fear women drivers on March 06, 1998 at 16:38:34:
In Reply to: Re: Aggressive drivers... WOMEN posted by Stress Out Male Driver on February 06, 1998 at 08:08:02:
In the last 2 yrs. I've been in 3 accidents, all caused by the kinder, gentler half of our species. #1: a young woman turned left into my car from a straight-only lane. She lied to her insurance company, but I did collect my deductible from her. #2: a middle-aged woman rear-ended me at a stop sign where I had been stopped for about 10 seconds waiting for cross traffic to pass. She said she didn't see me. #3: an elderly woman plowed into five cars in a parking lot, one of which was mine. She said her foot slipped off the brake and onto the accelerator. I'd like to accept the proposition that women drivers are no worse than men drivers, but my mind won't let me suspend reality on that.
People with road rage do things they don't have the stones (or eggs) to do in person. They are contemptible.
Posted by david on March 05, 1998 at 09:43:11:
In Reply to: Re: Aggressive WOMEN Drivers posted by Graeme J Quinn on March 04, 1998 at 19:08:34:
I am a quiet, plain-looking professional man driving a plain gray sedan. One afternoon on the way home, I safely, legally changed lanes, with my signal on, from left to right in front of a pretty blonde co-ed in a green sporty compact car. There was plenty of room, and I did nothing abrupt or aggressive. But she lost it completely: flashed her lights, "horned and fingered" me liberally, and placed herself on my bumper.
As I always do, I just ignored her. A few miles later, I pulled into a parking lot. She was still there, and pulled across behind me. When I got out of my car, she ran up to me and stabbed me in the chest with a large hunting knife.
I was not mortally wounded (obviously) but I did stumble and fall. An off duty police officer witnessed this, and took her into custody. I visited her in jail, and learned that she had no prior record and had never had trouble controlling her temper before. She just lost it.
She is a really nice person and I like her a lot. I am sure this was an isolated incident, and, though I feel she needs therapy to find out what triggered this behavior, I did not want to press charges.
Unfortunately, the state is pressing charges, and I can't stop that. I intend to enter a deposition recommending great leniency to the courts.
The bottom line is, I think women don't have the (overall, aggregate) experience that men do in dealing with their own anger and being in the midst of aggressive people. For example, I think most women don't understand that the classic middle finger gesture is often interpreted as an invitation to fight.
In our urban area there have been a number of incidents of women being beaten severely by men after having shot them the finger. Just an odd, extreme sort of communications failure.
There are some women who drive very aggressively. I think it's just because they've never had to learn how to manage their feelings and avoid fights. They were taught they are "sugar, spice, and all things nice," and haven't yet grown into the experience base they need.
But a few more incidents like these, and, hopefully, they will begin to take notice.
--D.
Re: Are women better drivers? (Was: SPEEDING - etc.)
Author: Stephen Cuthbertson
Email: nospam@gecm.com
Date: 1998/07/07
Forums: alt.uk.law, uk.legal, uk.transport, alt.law-enforcement.traffic, alt.cars
> amazing how people will refuse to face the facts that Women are safer
> drivers and make up all sorts
> of 'excuses' as to why insurance rates are cheaper for women...Insurance
> companies are not fools..they KNOW
> that women are a better claims risk as far as they are concerned.
> Mike Warren.
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This study asked college students what information drivers (aged 16 to 91) involved in traffic accident would need for assigning accident responsibility. This study found that ageism information seeking across life span, independent of driver gender, participant age, and participant gender. Participants would ask younger drivers about driving conduct (drinking, speeding) and older drivers about capacity for driving (mental competence, vision, health).
Gilligan, C. & Attanucci, J. Two moral orientations: gender differences and similarities. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly. 1988, 34(3), 223-237.
The study evaluated the discussions of males and females dealing with moral conflicts. The purpose was to see whether they showed signs of using the justice and care perspective, and whether there was any relationship between gender and moral orientation. Findings showed that although some gender differences exist, both knew and use the justice and care perspective in their morals.
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In Miss Suzuki's report she touches on women and the stereo-types connected to them. She starts by looking at Berber's essay, where he looks at it in a way to help and provide safety for women against the negative influences of society and for their benefit. Also stating that women are of a lower class. Miss Suzuki after looking at Berber's essay went into the history of women drivers, where she states that the first woman driver was Geneva Mug. Also she states that driving was reserved for the "well to do families." She continues on with some of the important historical facts about women drivers, and came to a conclusion that stereo-types are made to keep social status within our society. She finishes with some journal articles by Furnham and Snipe, and another article by Tiptoe, Camp and Hz, and a couple more.
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There are no other people in this class doing his report on Gender Differences in Driving. While looking to see if anyone else did this report I got to look at some of the other reports and I really like what I am seeing, I think that the class is really progressing well. This progress of trying to understand and obtain a background in what traffic psychology is.
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I think that the best suggestion to future generations that want to look at this topic of gender differences you need to understand what is causing these differences. Also to note is that there is not much information in gender differences with the topic of traffic but if time permits look at the differences in others studies and then maybe there is a generalization that could be made between traffic and other topics.