'just For Women' Malarki Options

[danm567]

Something that has really bugged me recently. All this 'Just for Women' rubbish. An example of this is Diamond insurance. It is 100% sexist and should not be legal. I mean, imagine if there was an insurance company just for men, can you imagine the outcry?!? With all these femenists around nowadays that would never be legal.

The only reason women get cheaper car insurance is because they never go over 20mph!!

Anyway, does anyone agree with me on this, or disagree??

Please reply...

[Mata]

Danm, it's best not to make jokes that are sexist around here, especially when you're trying to make a point about sexism. Considering the context I assume the '20mph' comment was intended in the most part to be a joke, but in future please leave that kind of joke for other sites.

Onto the actual subject:

Personally I don't think that this is sexist. The former head of the Metropolitan police once stated that they would be stepping up patrols in areas where there were higher levels of young men of an African enthic background, because statistically these were the people who were committing most crimes. Now... Is this racist, or is this a statement of the facts? The statistics were, as far an anyone can tell, accurate, and so I believe his response was ot racist. The fact that social circumstances means that young black men and their families often have far lower standards of living is a signal that society itself has many aspects of racism still in it, but the police chief's response was to the data.

If women really are safer drivers than men, for which there is a lot of statistical evidence, then why should they have to pay for the accidents that another group is having? If men became better drivers then this kind of thing would not be necessary. It's not sexist to respond to strong evidence of differences between the genders when such things are clearly true, what may be sexist is the society that encourages men to be more aggressive or less capable of controlling their tempers behind the wheel.

Well... That's my opinion anyway. Obviously it's not a solid rule, and probably needs a bit more thinking through, but as a general principle it seems about right to me.