Sexism and cycling, exibit A: The daily telegraph.

[Learnincurve]

I am genuinely flabbergasted. I didn't think the telegraph had a cycling section until I randomly found it somewhere I was not expecting it to be in 2014.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/active/recreational-cycling/

on top of that if you go look at the women's section http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-health/ then you find "Finally, a non-patronising cycle event for women" but when you click the link, where do you think you find yourself back http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/acti...sing-cycle-event-for-women.html#disqus_thread

Do they have absolutely no sense of irony? 90% of the posts in the women's section is about fighting sexism.

Whoever designed this website made a choice, All cycling and other sports go in the men's section, anything relating to women may or may not get a link back to the women's section depending on if it is written by a woman or not, the article actually being about a women is no guarantee of it being shown to the girls.

The non sexist solution is the one that every other newspaper website has and to have a general recreation section. This blatant assumption that all sport = men is right out of the 1970s.

 

[winjim]

I'll be looking forward to reading their coverage of the women's Tour de France.

 

[jayonabike]

I'm surprised women have time to cycle with all that washing and housework that needs doing

 

[numbnuts]

I'm surprised women have time to cycle with all that washing and housework that needs doing

Yeah they should be chained to the sink and kept pregnant

 

[Ganymede]

I'm surprised women have time to cycle with all that washing and housework that needs doing

Funny AND orginal! Well done.

Re the Telegraph - just ridiculous. I was going to say "but what do you expect" - but you know, I DO expect better than that, even from the Telegraph. Pants.

 

[Davos87]

Have I just woke up in the 1970s?

 

[nappadang]

It's the Daily Telegraph, what do you expect?

 

[Crackle]

It's a really crap article too, whichever section it's in. It's even more testosterone fuelled than a blokey testosterone article. Maybe that's why it's in the men's section, it bullied its way in.

 

[nickyboy]

I was hoping this was a resurrection of a "Babes on Bikes" thread

 

[Crankarm]

I was hoping this was a resurrection of a "Babes on Bikes" thread

Is Greedo back then?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

[QUOTE 4939587, member: 1314"]Combined with the widely publicised accusations of sexism made by some professional female cyclists there does seem to be a problem with a culture of macho sexism within the sport.[/QUOTE]
A sport/pastime dominated by white, middle-aged, excessively sinewy men you mean?

 

[KnackeredBike]

[QUOTE 4939587, member: 1314"]These things don't just slip through the net as an accidental one off 'idiotic' (in Cycling Weekly's own word) fall in standards.[/QUOTE]
Really?

If it was a regular feature or occurrence then maybe, but one tiny caption on one page doesn't exactly mean the entire editorial team are howling misogynists.

If you have never made a misjudged joke ever than good for you.

 

[jefmcg]

[QUOTE 4939587, member: 1314"]In other news, Cycling Weekly captions a female cyclist on a club run 'Token attractive woman' and then denies it is reflective of their office culture. If it been a caption on a Black cyclist on a club run with the caption 'Token Black Man' I would've been peeved and disbelieving that it was not reflective of a certain office culture.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/01/cycling-weekly-apologises-token-woman-picture-caption

These things don't just slip through the net as an accidental one off 'idiotic' (in Cycling Weekly's own word) fall in standards.

Combined with the widely publicised accusations of sexism made by some professional female cyclists there does seem to be a problem with a culture of macho sexism within the sport.[/QUOTE]
I don't know why you tacked this onto a 3 year old thread about a different publication, when there was already a thread about it

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/cycling-weekly-in-sexism-row.223217/

I think that's the better place to discuss the cycling weekly blunder.