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Thinking about it, I don’t think it’s a phrase I have ever used tbh. Us young folk wouldn’t be seen dead on a triple!
Me in my granny gear
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Welcome to Cycle-Chat... have a nice day.This thread is ridiculous.
@rich p you may have competition....Me in my granny gear
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Nah. There's no crisp packet in sight.@rich p you may have competition....
Thinking about it, I don’t think it’s a phrase I have ever used tbh. Us young folk wouldn’t be seen dead on a triple!
I just went with the definition for granny gear, further up the thread. Wasn’t my place to argue. Anyway, @YukonBoy got the idea that I was just having a laugh and responded accordingly.That presumes only triples have a low gear. In fact ever cyclist has a granny gear - it’s the lowest gear on your bike.
When I’m unsure about something like this I ask three good friends of mine - my wife and two other women. I’ll do this later and go with their opinion.
I’m also going to ask them about the term “boy look.” I’m not on a wind up with this.
I don’t know how widespread “boy look” is but locally it’s used when someone fails to find something which is staring them in the face. Based on the principle if you ask a male child to find for example his shoes, he might open his bedroom door, look in and claim he can’t find them!!!!
In my circle “boy look” is used by men and women to describe anyone’s failure to find something which is obvious.
Currently my opinion is while I understand the argument against the term “granny gear” I think it daft to suggest it’s sexist or ageist. I’ll let you know if this changes.
Boy look (man looking is the phrase I've heard) and man flu are part of a culture of infantilising adult males - watch any advert or household products featuring a family. I have a male friend who finds it all very irritating so i now don't use such phrases.I just went with the definition for granny gear, further up the thread. Wasn’t my place to argue. Anyway, @YukonBoy got the idea that I was just having a laugh and responded accordingly.
I have never heard of Boy Look. Totally get the concept though and that’s generally true in my experience. I wouldn’t take offence at it, whether directly applied to me or indirectly.
To argue otherwise would be as daft as this thread.
This cropped up in the "get home after a breakdown" thread, and several people correctly said it was a diversion of a quite useful and interesting thread. So, for anyone interested in discussing this in its own right:
The term "granny gear" is deeply embedded in cycling, is used by most people with no malign intent, but is nonetheless derogatory and sexist.
The paradigm behind it is that cycling is a macho activity; real cyclists ought to be macho enough to cope without low gears; and not subscribing to that macho culture, or simply prefering easier gears, is distinctively female (and, the imagery conveys, old, feeble females at that).
Low gears make cycling easier and more enjoyable. It cannot be anything other than sexist to link a desire for cycling to be easy and enjoyable with women.
It is damaging not just because all prejudice always diminishes all of us, but because the whole sports-derived macho culture of cycling - of which selling ordinary people bikes with unsuitably high gears is part - puts off more people discovering and embracing our wonderful mode of travel, to the detriment of them, us, and the whole of society.
Discuss (if you wish).