To be absolutely sick to death of men shouting at me in my car but never my husband

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I’m really fed up of being verbally abused aggressively when driving for any minor thing by male drivers. This seems to happen to me a few times a year. In 20 years of being married this had never happened to my husband.

The only times iv been shouted at by other drivers its been deserved and vice versa

Never been yelled at but I do get treated differently (tailgating because I stick to speed limits) depending on which car I’m driving, little old runabout vs flashy black Porsche. I never respond to any provocation.

I’ve also never had this. I’m guessing your driving isn’t great. That’s what should be bothering you.

I got screamed at by a woman once. Her car had some weird, really-long towbar thing that was overlapping into the parking space I was reversing into. I couldn't see it. I reversed into "my" space, and tapped her towbar. She flew out of her car ready to batter me. I was like 😲I think I would have been less scared if it was a man.

Anyway, you blocking an alley wasn't a mistake. You knew what you were doing. You took a chance and it backfired. But you don't deserve to be screamed at. Some people are just angry people. It doesn't matter if you are a man or a woman to those people, you've inconvenienced them, and therefore they think they have the right to be aggressive about it.

When I nearly take out their entire family

It's sounds like your standard of driving is to blame here. You know what they say about women drivers...

I know what you mean. You can 100% be in the right, when THEY are in the wrong and they'll take it out on you, where they wouldn't a man.

It's happened to me to the point where I came gingerly around a corner on my side of the road, he charged around the blind bend around a parked car on his side of the road and nearly hit me, and took exception to the fact that I dared to express any opinion on this, so parked up where I did and when I refused to get out of the car, followed me for miles until I drove to a police station.

Oh do fuck off

I had that too. Over a similar distance with two youngish guys. I had to call the police (hands free) in the end.

IMO something about getting behind the wheel of a car turns many people into arseholes. Laugh at them. It annoys them more than shouting back. Also console yourself with the knowledge that they are the ones that have to live with their own anger and you'll probably never cross paths again.

The worst drivers I have seen in 30 years of driving were men...

Also see men on motorways who don’t like that you’ve moved into the right hand lane to overtake them hogging the middle lane and speed up and slow down to stop you moving back across. I’ve had this happen more than once.

I see a lot of women middle lane hogging too but they tend not to care when overtaken.

It’s happened to me once when I was driving a bit slowly in a 30mph zone. I pulled over to let him past because he was being aggressive and he pulled level with me and screamed and shouted. He was a rough sort of man.

I just locked the doors, looked straight ahead and felt sorry for his family. It was frightening though and people like this aren’t safe to be driving. To be apoplectic with rage at someone doing 5mph under the speed limit for a short distance (when most of the roads in my city are 20mph) is not normal.

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Not just you, insurance companies too, that’s why women used to get much better premiums until an EU ruling. Men knew all about enforcing equal rights for sexes then didn’t they.

Yes me too, it’s very dangerous. I have seen it happen multiple times to female drivers.
They don’t like being overtaken by a woman…… it’s very weird. Like it offends their masculinity.

There is a lot of aggression on the road, from both men and women but mainly men, there are a lot of very impatient drivers on the road

I agree, it’s like people forget they are driving a couple of tons of metal at speed.

I was shouted at by a guy, no idea what for except the car I was driving was a large 4X4, rental, no choice of car as last minute rental.

Moving from one motorway to another and this one was very tight. 40 mph maximum. This other car was up my car's butt all the way through the tight turns. It wasn't safer to go faster. He pulled alongside me once we were on the motorway and mouthed whatever but clear he was very angry. No idea why, not busy, no cutting up etc. I just assume my 'slow' speed. I flipped him the bird.

OhMyGoodnessyMe - how do you know they tried to overtake you 'when they realise they have been overtaken by a woman.'?

Just to say OP I agree with you. I have been shouted at a few times and have been driving 13 years. I can shout back though.
I live in Birmingham. Whenever I go out with my dad and he drives, he often will say that the person driving is a 'silly B*h' -even if it is a man. And his driving is appalling. Even as my passenger he will shout at other drivers and believe it is a woman before backing down.

I lived in Devon for a while and this wasn't something I encountered there - being shouted at. The one time it did happen it was from a woman and she was right to call me out (drifting into her lane and cutting her up)

Believe me, the weasely looking, inbred, little twit that shouted at me and that his brother was a policeman and he was reporting me (for stopping and giving way to traffic before turning onto a road and then stopping because a rubbish bag had blown onto the road and there was oncoming traffic in the other lane) would not have dared to shout at a man.

Please do check out Ronnie Pickering. 17m hits on YT. Absolute tool

And to all the people saying of course men shout at other men, we all know that, but there are also a significant number of “men” that will shout at women but wouldn’t dare to shout at other men. You can generally tell the type very easily.

Ive been shouted at 3 times in the past year, its never happened before.