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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Sexism in insurance prices
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Date: Wed, 23-May-84 00:00:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 23 00:00:00 1984
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To follow up:
As expected, many women have come to the defence of insurance companies.
Face it folks, there is just no difference between insurance sexism and
any other kind of prejudiced descrimination.  I go to my insurance company
and they tell me, "you have to pay twice as much for insurance because you
are a man".
I say, "but I have never had an accident and have only one ticket in
my life!  I took driver training and know the feel of my car well"
They say, "Yes, but men your age get in more accidents than anybody else.
and I say, "But I'm not like those other men.  I don't drink, I'm
a professional, an intellectual etc. etc."

AND THEY SAY (with their price) "All men your age are alike...."

Now what does this story say to you.  It's true in some form for every
man in North America who drives.  Sure it's based on statistics.  But
based on the statistics, (not getting into the reasons for the statistics)
women are not as educated as men, nor as succesful in professions or
business.  In the early part of the century, you could point to clear
statistics that said that blacks were inferior to whites.

Now we protect against prejudiced descrimination by saying that individuals
are different from the masses, and that these statistical differences are
due to environmental, not innate things.   Well, surely driving attitude
is an environmental thing, too.  After all, if it gets better with age
or MARRIAGE, how can you say otherwise.

So I dare you to find a major distinction between these cases of
sexism.
-- 
	Brad Templeton - Waterloo, Ontario (519) 886-7304