Three women singing about how women are safer drivers and deserve lower premiums, while "driving" a pink convertible is made all the more hilarious by the fact that they don't watch the road, hold the steering wheel (instead, waving their arms in the air in time to the song), notice that for much of the commercial the car is in reverse (watch the scenery going by), and at one point even allow a kangaroo to drive. Inadvertently invoked in this commercial for a women only car insurance company.
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It features a woman rubbing the fact that she got a safe-driving bonus check from Allstate in the face of her male companion after he tries to claim that men are better drivers (with the implication that he isn't a good enough driver to receive one). One of Allstate's commercial defies this trope.Mayhem seems to quickly be becoming The Scrappy, and with good reason! Mayhem" pretending to be a teenage girl (whose SUV, of course, is pink) who gets distracted while texting (in one version just from a normal text, in the other by becoming "emotionally compromised" by a text about a boy she likes) and slamming into another car without noticing. Allstate has recently taken to playing this trope in their commercials with "Mr.Glaringly present in this 1970s Goodyear commercial.
See Directionless Driver for another gender-based driving stereotype. The trope has been somewhat replaced by Drives Like Crazy, in which the driving is the joke, rather than the womanhood. Even during that period, though, this trope was at best a considerable exaggeration of the actuality. Also, before power steering became standard, driving needed a fair amount of upper-body strength, especially large vehicles. In locales where insurance companies are allowed to give different premiums for men and women, women's premiums will be less than men's, as the overall cost to the insurance company of covering women is actually lower than the equivalent men.įrom the late 1940s to roughly the mid 1960s, women did tend to be poorer drivers than men of the same age simply because they usually learned later in life, from poorer instructors (their husbands, rather than professionals), and until the two-car family became commonplace, had less opportunity to practice, as men made more use of the car. However, the accidents men report are far more serious - women are more likely to claim for scratching a car on the parking lot, but men are more likely to drive past a red light and into a car at 100 kmph. Statistically speaking, women report more accidents to the police/insurance companies than men do.
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