An open letter to all condescending male chauvinist cyclists

[Slick]

 

[winjim]

Look, Pat... After 33 pages of blokes patiently explaining why you're wrong and giving impartial advice about sticks and stones off a duck's back can you not just accept that men know more about all this?

Incoming pump! Duck!

 

[ufkacbln]

[QUOTE 4764178, member: 9609"]sounds about right, a quick google shows the av age of a premiership footballer is 25. Av age tour de france winner 28.[/QUOTE]
Little hope for many of us then..... or is that ageist?

 

[ufkacbln]

Incoming pump! Duck!

Can I advise on the injury potential of pumps?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Look, Pat... After 33 pages of blokes patiently explaining why you're wrong and giving impartial advice about sticks and stones off a duck's back can you not just accept that men are not patronising ?

And as women are evidently honorary apprentices to every self-appointed expert, you'd think they'd have got it by now....

(''Put the track pump down!'')

 

[Lozz360]

If something's hanging off that's gonna hurt somebody , or somebody rides where they will hurt others then regardless of sex( gender is s social construct apparently) they get told .nicely.

Slightly OT but I thought that 'sex' is something you do and 'gender' describes what you are.

 

[ufkacbln]

Slightly OT but I thought that 'sex' is something you do and 'gender' describes what you are.

It used to be a standard on application forms, before the word gender became used more widely, there was always name, date of birth, address, sex.....

There was always the immature and childish desire to write "Yes please"

 

[ufkacbln]

More seriously I thought sex was the definition by chromosome, XX, or XY, whilst gender was the social and personal interpretation

That is why it is possible to be a female in gender, but not allowed to participate in a certain sport because of the strict chromosomal definition of sex which makes the individual male

 

[Tenacious Sloth]

After 34 pages of this, surely you guys realise it's impossible to say the right thing?

Anyway, it doesn't really matter, they're only chicks after all.



Graham.

 

[theclaud]

After 34 pages of this, surely you guys realise it's impossible to say the right thing?

Saying nothing is an option, believe it or not.

 

[theclaud]

More seriously I thought sex was the definition by chromosome, XX, or XY, whilst gender was the social and personal interpretation

That is why it is possible to be a female in gender, but not allowed to participate in a certain sport because of the strict chromosomal definition of sex which makes the individual male

I bet it feels a bit like this watching me trying to figure out quantum mechanics.

 

[ufkacbln]

I bet it feels a bit like this watching me trying to figure out quantum mechanics.

Quantum mechanics is probably a safer subject

 

[theclaud]

Quantum mechanics is probably a safer subject

You feel in danger?

 

[theclaud]

[QUOTE 4764566, member: 9609"]is it not all just a bad habit complaining about men, fair enough sexism existed once but we thankfully seem to have moved away from that - women seem to be in control of most things that are important now, look at the top three European economies all now run by women (or at least soon to be)[/QUOTE]

Oh do give over.

 

[ufkacbln]

You feel in danger?

Have you seen the size of that pump?