What is it with men and road rage?

UCANTCME

Some studies show that men are more likely than women to be involved in road rage-related incidents.

Driving statistics show that men are already 3 times more likely to cause a fatal crash.

Many experts examine cultural conditioning to find out why men are pre-disposed to resort to violent behavior during frustrating road situations.

These experts claim that in American culture, the male is expected to express frustration and impatience in public situations whereas the female is condemned when she responds to stressful situations with anything other than passivity and acquiescence.

In other words, men are more likely to commit road rage because there is an established precedent for public displays of male aggression in our culture.

Brian in Chicago

Nope. It is completely normal. Oh and stay out of the left lane if you aren't passing someone!

jet_blackdawg

I don't really think you should be too concerned about that. I getting upset or angry about someone cutting you off when driving and then flipping you off is a pretty common reaction. I mean it's not like he ran the other guy down and confronted he or attacked him, if so then I would be worried.

bigjohn79

No. It is completely normal. Besides there are a lot of jack@sses out there.

Thomas H

Your question just makes me soooo angry ... aaahhhrrgggg!! No, he is ok everyone get's PO'd some times when others drive dangerously around you.

chris2EM

Yeah, women never have road rage.....coughBULL$#@%cough!!

I suggest you ride 5 minutes with my ex-girlfriend.

You should be concerned with anybody with road rage, not just with men or some guy you're dating.

Sputz

Ho, wow. Ouch, that was a little mean of you to assume he's bad because he gave the finger. If my dates (male or female) ever judged me on my ability to keep the road rage down, I would have never been on a date in my life.
And I'm a woman!
What he did is what I do on a mellow day. I cuss, flip both birds, honk, holler, etc.
Though I usually do it just to make myself smile so I do not have to deal with the actual road rage problems I have.

Martinmm

thats not road rage unless you left out somthing besides the finger.like mooned the other driver while driving 65 MPH.

raels1

possibly - it would depend on whether this is the only area he expresses his rage. he seemed to be proud of what he had done maybe the person who cut him off was unaware of his presence and maybe we should all try and think of why it might have happened. remember the old saying. patience is a virtue keep it if you can, seldom found in a woman and never in a man. monitor other areas where rage may rear its ugly head. good luck

mhone

Youth and testosterone go together like, well, I don't know. But that is the answer. I can't think of a rhyme.

Orchid

Men are men and that's the way it is unfortunately. They don't think about the stupid stuff the do until way after it happened if that at all.
I have seen worst then just a finger I have actually seen many times rode rage escalate into fights just a bunch of apes so a little finger here and there ain't to bad just caution him because later down the line he could give that finger to the wrong person.

cute piggie

when i get roadrage, i throw eggs at their cars. should I be concerned about myself???

yikes!

Hi. Road rage is not uncommon. Although, it can easily lead to death (W/ people packing and hot head idiots! ) ! People are really naive to think others don't carry a gun. It is ALWAYS a waste of time to respond with anything other than just complet annoyance. I have almost died a couple of times as a passenger dealing with road rage (husband being a complete hothead to people's driving habits that could kill us, almost always over 70 y.o or under 25 bty) Please, all that read this, take the higher road and just ignore it and practice defensive driving. I really don't want to die b/c of some stupid a-hole and a bunch of male horomones. Really, be smart about it and think about the consequences, you are only hurting yourself and your passenger especially if you engage in thisl terrible behavior. Just drive and think like your grandma is in the car and all will be good. Please all you drivers, just calm down and obey the laws, it will all be good then :)

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