Angelfishsolo
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Yep and you pretty much started its current direction with............
Commuting in a short dress - Recommended!
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Yep and you pretty much started its current direction with............
Mad at urage
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Angelfishsolo
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- Cwmbach, South Wales
How about http://www.cyclechat...e__pid__1849366
How dare the French use a Lady to sell whatever it is they are selling?!
YahudaMoon
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LOL 
They're probably all nurses taking a professional interest
Somebody has to ask...
How does he shave them?
Angelfishsolo
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With great care!!!!!
Yes it is for real, it happened. I was a surprised as you seem to be because this was a rational person who I'd long known and the incident was out of place.
It's not the only time I've been 'told off' for holding a door open though - that happens, even when I've been holding it for the past n people (of mixed ages and sexes). Whether you think it a myth or not, I'm afraid it's just one of the things we males have to deal with.
Poor dears. By "myth", I do not mean something which is necessarily false, but a narrative and/or symbolic means of making sense of the world. We tell ourselves stories that construct or reinforce particular meanings. This process itself is being made visible on this very thread - someone asks you to think more carefully about something, and you respond with a tenuously connected narrative about something that happened "some time ago". You may think you are telling a story about how feminist hypersensitivity has resulted in men's ordinary courtesy or harmless gallantry being misunderstood, but I read it as a defensive anti-feminist cliche that deliberately uses triviality to forestall serious discussion. Either way, talking about Opening Doors usually gets us precisely nowhere.
Angelfishsolo
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Oddly about 20 years ago I was criticised by my then GF for not opening the car door for her. I had to explain that the Central Locking was buggered and I could only unlock the car from the drivers side. I read nothing into that but this bit of the thread just reminded me.
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
...which I think makes TC's point very nicely.
AFS, I don't mean to be rude, but my previous post was a sort of attenuated version of "WHY THE **** CAN'T WE HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT SEXISM WITHOUT PEOPLE BANGING ON IRRELEVANTLY ABOUT OPENING DOORS?"
Angelfishsolo
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Did you miss the part where I said I was reminded of it. It was an aside nothing more.
Becs
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Brilliant things - lyra-clad arse coverage with no extra seams - I am a convert. My mate used to wear "skorts" on our rides - padded shorts with an in built skirt. Looked nice.
I do wonder why more girls don't cycle when a lot run, from experience the lewd comments are far more plentiful when an element of bouncing is introduced!
I work in a predominantly female office and the 2 of us that cycle in could be described as having more assertive personality types. The other girls all cite being scared of the traffic as a reason not to give it a go. I can see this being the case in London (I felt the same until I gave myself a stress fracture running and had to get on the bike because I couldn't walk to the bus stop without making it worse!) - I wonder if the proportion of female cyclists increases outside of big cities?
FWIW Dell I have never found the fnrttc rides anything other than polite . . . . . except for when Big Martin farted right next to me at a p*ncture stop!
Silver Fox
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I thought this was going to be like a resurrection of the "girls in lycra shorts" thread
Were there any pics on that thread
.Yes, yes I know, back to the naughty step.
twobiker
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Knowing the abrasions I received from falling off in cycle shorts , are the ladies on the forum not concerned about incurring scars, and also Mrs Twobiker and I have had numerous talks with our 18yr old Daughter now she goes to nightclubs about what may be seen as leading guys on, by accepting drinks etc.
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