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bUt InSuRaNcE cOmPaNiEs ChArGe MeN mOrE tHaT mEaNs MeN dRiVe WoRsE!!!!
(spoiler: men drive more miles)
It is true that young men are more prone to risky behavior, which insurance companies don't like despite the fact that women's risk-averse behavior probably causes just as many accidents.
Most highway fatalities are caused by men. Speeding, reckless driving, drunk driving.
Most city and town incidents are caused by women. Fender benders, accidents, etc. these are usually not fatal.
Men are better drivers, arguably. But they are also more dangerous drivers.
It's a quantitative vs qualitative argument.
Women get into more crashes. But men get into worse ones.
A lot of those are suicides by car wreck. The stats really should be separated out by whose fault it is but that will never happen because that doesn't push an agenda.
This is the "that makes sense" narrative but when you realize they have a deliberate agenda.
Look around at the people around you. When my dad and his girlfriend get together (I'm young and they've been dating for like 20 years) he always drives. She can drive, and she'll say she'll split driving on a trip, but in reality she almost never "feels like it" when the time comes and he does the driving.
I looked over at my uncle on one side of the family and it's basically the same thing. I looked at the uncle on the other side, same thing again - she can drive but she doesn't want to if there's a guy around to do it.
On top of that, men are far more likely to take jobs that involve driving. I bet if you look at the number of people who get a CDL license it's like 90% men.
Let's say you get into an accident. It's often unclear who's at fault, so who's more likely to get blamed when it's unclear - it's gonna be the guy. I got hit on the side by a girl once, I told the insurance company the truth that I wasn't sure who was at fault, she made up a huge story about how it was my fault.
Your insurance company can easily reach this conclusion without a deliberate agenda - they don't know who's driving or how many miles they're driving - so they look at stats and say "looks like men get in accidents 3x as often!". They don't know that men are also doing the driving 6x more often.
Yeah when I think of it, I've been on countless long highway trips in my life and I can't think of one single example where a woman did the driving that wasn't my mother with just the kids on a short trip. I've done a dozen long trips halfway across the country with friends where we had three or four car loads of people and I can't think of a woman in a driver's seat of any vehicle even once.
I suspect they just don't drive in those situations and that's where the dangerous wrecks happen. Fender benders from texting and putting on makeup at a stoplight don't do that.