Why womens insurance makes me mad

I'm here to write about womens insurance; please don't blame me, but for reasons I won't go into, I am writing about the grammatically incorrect subject of womens car insurance. "Why?" I hear you cry. Well, it appears that a lot of female drivers out there go onto google and type in those very words when looking for motor insurance. Being a writer and an English grad to boot, I'm a bit of a stickler for grammar and I have to say it chills me to the bone to have to read or write words that are grammatically incorrect.

A particular pet hate of mine is the great should have / should of controversy. I am constantly appalled by the amount of people, some of them seemingly well-educated, who write in e-mails circulated company wide, something along the lines of, "I should of got my car insurance from a womens insurance provider. It would of been alot cheaper."

If they had bothered to right click on any of the red and green wiggly lines that would have appeared helpfully on their screen, they would have been offered some perfectly correct and appropriate alternatives for their grammatical gaffes. Still, it appears they are just too busy to check these things over and off the correspondences go, into the ether, and eventually into the in-boxes of people like me, who "tut" and "huff" a bit before shaking my head at the ignorance of some people.

Sorry! I rant.

Women's car insurance is what I should be writing about, and how we, women that is, get better motor cover deals because we are safer drivers than men. We are apparently pre-disposed to handle situations more calmly than men, we have a greater capacity for focus and we take fewer risks on the road. Female drivers, according to the Department of Gender and Women's health at the World Health Organisation (WHO), should be recognised for their fundamental differences to male drivers by the availability of gender-differentiated car insurance policies.

Now, I recognise that not all women are good drivers; I regularly seem to meet the not-so-good womens insurance buyers (sorry) on my way to work each morning. But I do also meet an equal, if not slightly greater, amount of male drivers who do the most stupid things.

I won't go into detail here; not even the case of the male driver who almost drove into me after I had made way for a speeding ambulance to pass on a roundabout. Despite the fact that the emergency vehicle had sirens screaming and blue lights flashing, the driver not only almost pulled straight into its path, but he then proceeded to try to ram me as he rushed across the roundabout, narrowly missing a car accident that would have been unequivocally his fault. (Oops, did I say I wouldn't go into details?)

Anyway…. Back to womens insurance, or as it should be - women's insurance, or car insurance for women or car insurance female; they'll all do the job on google and you can sit back and choose your grammatically correct motor cover, in the satisfying knowledge that you are probably a safer driver than a man. Although, womens grammar rage is fast becoming the scourge of the information super-highway; demonstrated by mad female writers reading their e-mails and muttering expletives into their keyboards.