[QUOTE 4763844, member: 43827"]Get a sense of perspective. Did I say I'd been "wronged"? Was I complaining about it, quite the opposite if you bothered to read my post? How do you know it's the exception rather than the rule, do you have the evidence to back that up? I am not vain enough to assume people will want to hear my anecdotes, but was contributing to the thread in a not too serious vein.
I will take criticism on board from women, who understand the issues first hand, and I have done so as a result of their comments, but I do not worry too much about criticism from perpetually outraged VSers.[/QUOTE]
And still you fail to understand. You explain to someone who's been patronised all her life that you have once encountered something you regard as similar - and fail to appreciate that you're trivialising her experiences.(Oh, and don't try to claim that being patronised is an every day experience, you'd have come up with more - and less banal - examples.) Likewise, comparing casual sexism to:
[QUOTE 4763004, member: 43827"]violence to women, FGM, female slavery, exploitation in the sex trade. [/QUOTE]
also continues the theme of trivialising it - and you fail to appreciate how unthinkingly offensive that is. Or this, for that matter:
[QUOTE 4762767, member: 43827"]In itself it's worth a moan on a cycling forum but is not the biggest problem in the world, and can be reduced by the victims of such behaviour giving an appropriate response to the perpetrator, as I am sure Pat is able to.
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You've managed to illustrate perfectly the behaviour Pat and other women have commented on. It is ironic that it is you who has complained about being condescended to. The smart thing to do would be to stop digging. I bet you won't, though.
