Are you sure it's only female cyclists?
I used to like listening to Woman's Hour, I'm currently boycotting R4 due to the constant Covid drivel at the beginning of the outbreak, it was full on scare tactics & not news.
However back to Woman's hour, as a man it highlights issues which I had never considered, but it seemed to me in a pretty balanced way, I've not read the DM version nor heard the WH version, but I suspect they are widely different.
I noticed a typo where I should have said papers rather than 'apers' - but on reflection it seems apt.
I've wondered a few times if many of the injunctions or 'taboos' on what women can feel comfortable speaking about in mixed company are mostly about getting us to shut up about things that might need to change in order that life be made more comfortable / safer / fairer for everyone.
If we can't discuss stuff like this without it getting deflected by inappropriate jokes from guys, who seem to forget they're in mixed company
or even bollix chat, then nothing really changes does it??
Most women I know
(and they're not all shrinking violets you'll be unsurprised to hear)
would rather walk through fire, than go into a bike shop and announce their genital discomfort to the assembled blokeage to be found there.
How the guys who actually give sh*t about true equality will go about tackling these issues of sexism is something I'm looking forward to seeing - there's only so much that any woman can do to change the mindset - and educate.
But I for one, having put up with it for these attitudes for a looooong time, am quite keen to see a change.
It shouldn't have to be "How would you feel if your daughter / sister / wife was spoken about, or to like that" - but that seems to be the only thing that gets any leverage with the slightly less 'enlightened' mind.