I'm gonna go out on a whim and say that neither gender nor the vehicle you were driving played a role here, and give you a personal example:
I was in bumper-to-bumper, construction-induced traffic on Steeles through brampton one afternoon, in my car. 3 lanes were merging into 2, in about 200m, in which case the left lane was ending. I was in the middle lane, and like anyone who understands traffic, the right-most lane will likely move faster in this case, as the middle lane will be full of existing cars and mergers.
Remember; for all intents and purposes, Steeles was a parking lot we were probably getting a 5km/h crawl. I signaled a lane change, and as soon as I did so, a white mini-SUV sped up to block em from changing the lane. Ugh, fine. So I turned the blinker off, and continued crawling. 30 secs later, I got another chance, albeit closer than the first time, so I just took it (still used the signal, lol), and got in front of this dude. For the remaining 175m +, this guy was tailgating me so hard, I could see up his nose and for every second he was behind me so close, i got more and more upset.
Finally, after the construction zone, he entered a right turn lane and passed me - at which point all logic on my part was completely blinded by cloud of anger created by the fear of a potential accident and the disregard to let someone merge - at which point I flipped him the bird. Dude actually stopped to ask why I did, and my only response was that "you wouldn't let me merge!".
I was ******. He was cool as a cucumber, as our interaction (in his view) was nothing more than a minor inconvenience.
TLDR takeaways;
- Road rage is the abandonment of all things logical and,
- Understanding another driver's perspective can only be done from behind his/her windshield