Is cycling turning me into a woman?
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Ravenbait
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I don't want the thread locked! It's just starting to get good!
Sam
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I apologise ttcycle. I have now re-read your posts directed at Shaun, and see that you are taking this thread less seriously than some other posters on here. I do not usually respond with such haste and rudeness.Perhaps the posters who find this thread so unfunny should find something else to read.
NormanD
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is it safe to post yet 
asterix
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It's obviously a sexist thread!
There were women doing the Raid Pyrenean with me but unfortunately only 2, both of whom left me trailing well behind on the climbs (one was some sort of champion of some sort of endurance running).
So I don't see how Shaun can regard the OP as self-deprecating? He would need to be a very good cyclist to have matched their performance.
There were women doing the Raid Pyrenean with me but unfortunately only 2, both of whom left me trailing well behind on the climbs (one was some sort of champion of some sort of endurance running).
So I don't see how Shaun can regard the OP as self-deprecating? He would need to be a very good cyclist to have matched their performance.
fossyant
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is it safe to post yet
Only if you bring a spade and dig the hole deeper..........................
Ravenbait
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Perhaps the posters who find this thread so unfunny should find something else to read.
Turn a blind eye, so to speak?
I'd be good at that
.Unfortunately I'm with Kirstie on this. As long as we blithely say "Oh, it's just a larf, innit!" then this sort of thing will continue to be viewed as acceptable. It's not.
I don't think Shaun is sexist. The idea that there are accurate gender stereotypes is sexist. As long as non-sexist people continue to make statements that are sexist there will continue to exist a need for it to be pointed out to them that their statements are inherently biased.
And equality works both ways. I'm just as likely to jump in on a thread that is being denigratory towards men. I think the assumption that a man who takes care of himself is in some way more feminine, and that this is worthy of mockery, is just as unfair towards men. After all, why shouldn't men be granted the freedom to use moisturiser/shave/colour co-ordinate without being subject to people taking the mickey out of them?
It's the 21st century, for Pete's sake. You'd think we could have got over the idea that woman are soft, buy shoes and have babies while men are tough and grr and have dirty hands and never, ever wear pink.
Sam
MacB
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Oh mate, with your comedic timing how can it go wrong?
Ravenbait
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I can't help conceding, Rich, that you must have a certain animal magnetism. Every time I include a picture of you in an album, it gets about three times as many views as every other picture. The CycleChatters are hot for you - post away!
Ravenbait
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I'm not sure "ironic" means what you think it means, unless by which you mean "feigned ignorance of the sexist nature of these remarks".
Alanis Morissette is Canadian, incidentally.
Sam
