Summary of Ms. Lucey's (G6) report
Ms. Lucey's report emphasizes on how norms, stereotypes and expectations affect the gender of driving behavior. She gave interesting examples of how men and women fulfill various ideals. According to her report, norms are expected actions in particular situations. Stereotypes are ăstigmatic and discriminatory labels that are placed on people.ä She applies those terms to gender differences in aggressive driving. She found statistically that aggressive driving has increased over the past years and males are the majority of this type of driver. It has been a social norm that male drivers are more aggressive and inconsiderate then the female drivers.
Ms. Lucey also gave results of a questionnaire that was distributed to various individuals, 8 male and 8 female. The questionnaire tests on validity and reliability. Although she thinks that this test is not able to prove the real gender differences in driving, she found out that the female subjects had expressed awareness that their moods and other external sources had an effect on their driving behaviors.
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postings on gender differences in driving
Mr. Shintani (G7) wrote:
Well I donât think that gender has a
lot to do with aggressive driving? as we have discussed in class the study
that someone did that says that women are more aggressive drivers. I donât
think that this study is right. it could have been biased by the way that
people answered the questions. I think that term is self actualization.
the males might have wanted to make themselves look better. I think that
a study will just have to genderless. unless a set of questions can be
developed that will account for the differences that are afforded to each
gender. because in certain areas women are more truthful then men, but
in other men are more truthful. well that I just my views on the matter.
Summary and Comment
Mr. Shintani is expressing his feelings on aggressive driving. He believes that gender doesn't have anything to do with the way one drives and thought that the study was biased. Also he also points out the results' truthfulness that came from each gender. Women may tend to answer more freely and openly to questions regarding aggressive driving whereas, men may be less truthful wanting to be inclusive of the societal norm. He feels that questions should account for gender differences. The main issue of Mr. Shintaniâs point of view is that any study dealing with gender differences in aggressive driving should be "genderless."
I generally agree with his idea because
most of the researches done are biased due to the results that are expected
to come out. Society also play a role in determining the image of
what a man is. The image of aggressive, high speed, and power are
pictured as what a man should have.
Brandi Ashby (G7) wrote:
As we have discussed in class, the people
you don't expect to be aggressive behind the wheel are the ones you most
need to be concerned about. I suppose that men are more aggressive; however,
women are not the sweet non-aggressive creatures some perceive. I read
in the Sunday paper that women are increasingly becoming more aggressive
behind the wheel.
Summary and Comment
Ms. Ashby tells us not to be blinded from the appearances of people. Her idea of ăthe one whom you expected not to be aggressive are the ones you should be concerned about.ä She believes that women and men can be equally aggressive, and she has recently found out that the rate of female aggressive driving are increasing.
I think that since the time when
people demanded for the equality between women and men, the driving behavior
between both gender has no difference. It all depends on the personâs
own personality. Everybody can be an aggressive driver. Women
also want to show other people for their existence in the society.
Perhaps this is why there is a increase in female aggressive drivers.
Mary Elizabeth Pacheco (G7) wrote:
As I have mentioned in an earlier reply,
I have not come across much research specifying the gender behind the wheel.
I only assumed that because of social norms and characteristic of the male
gender, that most aggressive driving is committed by the male gender. I
too am interested in the cases where women are responsible. I will start
to search the web and its newsgroups. I recommend these student do the
same if they haven't already.
Summary and Comment
Although Ms. Pacheco has currently no experience with researches due with gender during driving, according to the social norms and characteristics of men, she believes that most of the aggressive behavior in driving are done by the male. She was, however, interested in searching about such information on the web.
Ms. Pachecoâs comment on gender driving
wasnât a surprise to most of the people since most of them believe that
male drivers are normally more aggressive than female drivers. But
the fact is, as the world has changed to a society of gender equality.
The relationship between aggressive driving and gender begins to fade out.
However some of the traditional people who still believe in male tends
to be more important than women still have this wrong notion. But
I still believe that gender will be separated from aggressive driving in
the future issue.
Wilfred Lee (G7) wrote:
Is there much of a difference between genders when referring to aggressive driving? I thought women drove as bad as men did. :) Or did I get my facts crossed?
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. By questioning
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.
Summary and Comment
Treating the problem instead of dealing with it is what Wilfredâs message is all about. He thinks that an emphasis on finding a solution on how to work with aggressive drivers is much more important than finding which type of gender tend to have a more aggressive driving behavior. Gender differences to him are not important in solving the problem of aggressive driving.
In response to his comment, I didnât
agree on his opinion. I think the way to deal with problem is to
find out why they behave that way. If you donât know why they behave
like that, there is no way for them to find out a solution to deal with
the problem. Letâs say if we find out male are more likely to behave
in such aggressive driving behavior, we can emphasize on modeling the male
instead of female.
Web visitor Brisaacs wrote (November 1997):
I hate to say this but it is usually
the people of ethnic backgrounds, women, and older people that can not
drive.
Summary and Comment
Brisaacs think that the women, the elder, and the ethnicity of people affects their ability to drive.
Personal experiences may be the causes
of Brisaacsâ prejudice on those particular group of people being driving
aggressively. I personally agree that elder people tends to have
an decrease in ability in judging. This leads to their inability
to drive safely on the road. People in different countries also tend
to drive differently. Some people tend to drive passively, whereas
other drive more aggressively. The only thing I disagree with Brisaacs
is the inability to drive safely by women. I think that if men can
drive safely, women can also drive safely.
Mr. Shintani (G7) wrote:
I think that this person has a few deep
rooted problems that he has to deal with before he can tackle the topic
of road rage. Let me see what is this man's problems well I gather from
his e-mail that he is a racist, a sexist and he discriminates against the
elderly. Did I leave anything out? I don't think that this man can see
past his own blind vision to see anything else, so it would be the case
that he is a very aggressive driver that is trying to defend his way of
driving. I wouldn't doubt that he cuts people off or shows that finger
on a regular basis. He should really go to some anger management classes
or some form of therapy.
Summary and Comment
In response to Brisaacsâ comment,
Shintani commented that Brisaacsâ response was personal, unintelligent
and difficult to respond to in that it deals with a generalization that
is based upon what seems like his/her personal experiences. Brisaacs response
is unfortunate but only one personâs narrow opinion. It would be interesting
to know why he/she feels this way.
1. Deja News
Subject:
Re: Road rage
Date: 1999/11/16
Author: Ascend <Ascend@mindspring.com>
Posting History
Behold on Fri, 12 Nov 1999 20:39:45 -0600, NUS@prodigy.net proclaimed:
}Contrary to your asinine beliefs, you ARE WRONG. SLOWER VEHICLES
STAY RIGHT MEANS
}IF YOU ARE SLOWER THAN APPROACHING TRAFFIC, GET YOUR
FREAKING ASS OVER!!! IS IT
}THAT DIFFICULT FOR YOU???
}
Wrong numbnuts, very much wrong, that only applies if... IF you are driving
below the speedlimit
Comment
I agree with "NUS" that
slower vehicles should move aside, but if they are just following the speed
limit, I bet they didn't do anything wrong at all. I think that "NUS"
is just too subjective of what other people should do. That may dued
to his past experiences. I think that sometimes they didn't recognize
their driving speed is below the speed limit, and that may cause people
to feel irritating, therefore they will have those kinds of comment.
2. Deja News
Subject:
Re: RoadRage
Date: 1999/11/02
Author: Delbo <delbo21@hotmail.com>
Posting History
If you read my message, I am not the type of person who rages because they
think they own the road. This type of person is wrong because of the fact
they think they own the road. I have actually criticised them in my message.
I
only get mad when someone does something dangerous and stupid.
delbo
In article <7vj13s$foj$1@news-int.gatech.edu>, Kiki <tigress@havoc.gtf.org>
wrote:
> Delbo <delbo21@hotmail.com> elaborated:
> : The point is, road rage is a PC term that attempts to treat anyone
who
> : loses their temper on the road as a leper. The truth is, it's the idiots
> : who drive like they own the road who are a far greater risk. So don't
> : try to make me feel bad if I let them know this.
>
> I personally don't like either. Just cause the roadrager feels provoked
> doesn't mean he is being any safer than the idiot or the person who feels
> he owns the road. And I have seen road ragers who are road raging cause
> they feel they are the ones that own the road (and anyone dare get in
> their way better watch it).
>
> Tigress
>
> --
> These opinions are mine, not those of Georgia Tech. It is the opinion
of
> Tech that I should be writing a paper on some topic or another.
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Comment
This story reads most
people's mind, and many drivers think the same way. That is, people
treats the road as a private property. So they don't expect cars
to be in front or block their way. The writer of the original message
said that he just wanted to critized those who drive dangerously and stupid.
But what is still in most of the driver's mind is they still treat the
road as a property. Once they still have the same notion, dangerously
and stupid drivers still exist.
3. Deja News
Subject:
Re: Road Rage
Date: 1999/11/23
Author: sly-srk <sly-srk@webtv.net>
Posting History
I just ignore and stay out of their way!
Comment
I think that this is the best way against road rage.
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In Miss Suzuki's report she analyzed her research of the stereotypes of women drivers from male's point of view. 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, she conclude 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.
In generation 12, I think there's only Sharlen Kawamura and myself doing the same topic. But she did not finish the report yet. So, I'll have to update it later.
Suggestion to the future generations
I thought that the previous
generations have done a great job on gender and driving issue. I
think this topic is very hard to find related information with it.
The only thing I can find is the difference between the two. But
you will not find research related to driving. I think that gender
difference is the only way we can go into. I suggest the future generations
to read those previous reports before they began because we will learn
a lot from it as we read along, and they are great and informative reports
too.
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