I'm a pretty good driver, I'm not going to say I'm perfect because nobody is but I took an advanced drivers course and flew through it. My instructor is a police instructor and was absolutely excellent. I am a good, conscientious driver. I'm aware of my surroundings, I don't hold up progress on roads. I also drive a small car that would be seen a bit as a "woman's car." I'm a small woman and while driving, viewed from another car I look younger than I am. My DS's car seat is ERF so it and he is very visible. It's pretty obvious that I'm a woman and the mother of a small child.
And OMG do I get seriously bullied by some men on the road. Drivers, driving right up my exhaust pipe. Overtaken on motorways even when I'm driving at the speed limit maintaining a safe distance from the car in front. Then the overtaker squeezes in, in front of me and immediately hits the brakes because they have realised that they are speeding/about to hit the car in front. I take a regular right hand turn off a national road and at least a third of the time, in spite of indicating in good time, I have cars try to over take me on the right. Then get aggressive with me. I regularly have drivers shout at me, gesture at me, flash me, etc. I once had a seriously aggressive man drive up behind me on a residential road and flash his fog lights into my rear view mirror to try and dazzle me, which was absolutely terrifying for me and DS.
This isn't a constant thing. Most people are good, conscientious drivers who are courteous on the road. But it does happen enough to be a kind of low level unpleasantness that I've just come to expect as part and parcel of driving.
Recently I bought a camper van. It's a converted biggish Ford Transit van. It's white. From the back and sides it looks like a white van. I've only driven it a few times and tbvh, I'm not fantastic at driving it just yet as it's very, very different from my car. It accelerates slower (and even when I improve at driving with it, it still will.) I have to brake differently as the momentum is much heavier. Going up and down hills in it is a completely different ball game and I haven't gotten to grips with it yet which means I lose speed partway up and end up braking all the way down. I'm not bad or a danger while driving it, but I certainly am annoying. I know I'd be a bit exasperated if I was driving behind me.
And fucking no-one tries to bully me. Nobody drives aggressively behind me. Nobody overtakes me and plays silly buggers in front of me. Nobody drives up my ass and tries to bully me into the hard shoulder. It just doesn't happen. I'm not as good a driver in it but I get a lot more respect. And why? Well I can only assume it's because they can't see me very well (or at all from behind) and are assuming that I'm a tradesman or a 'man with a van.' They certainly aren't guessing that I'm a 'vulnerable little woman.'
Like I said, I've only driven it a few times but the difference is utterly stark. The first time I was driving it and it wasn't accelerating quickly enough, I started to feel a little tense, waiting for the aggressive behaviour I experienced as a learner. But it never came. It's very freeing to drive as 'a man' and experience this other world of just being left alone to do what you are doing.