Sexism and fat shaming

[Pale Rider]

The fat lass has done well to get one roadie to even speak to her, let alone two.

 

[swansonj]

I am starting to despair at some of the comments such as above and the many similar that can be only described as idiotical....

I've now lost track of your own views. You tell me I'm talking tosh for suggesting there should be a correlation between cycling and behaviour; you've now told my friend @buggi that she's an idiot for suggesting that there may not be? Is the guiding principle here, in fact, that any view beyond the superficial is idiotic?

 

[EltonFrog]

If ever there was any proof needed that cyclists could be unpleasant to one another, one only needs to read this thread.

 

[Joffey]

I think @buggi is spot on. If you are a knocbhead off the bike you will be one on it. You see it all the time, the cycling snobs.

I'm a larger lad and thankfully have never experienced abuse on the road but when I'm out and about both in the car and on my bike you do see some idiots, they are out there for sure.

 

[w00hoo_kent]

Males and females, young boys and girls have always had quite specific taunts aimed at them that ruin lives, stop participation in sport etc. With women and girls it's often body size, while men and boys it tends to focus on genital size strangely. But you would never equate the size of a mans penis with his worth...would you?

Surely with a cyclist in lycra it never becomes a point of debate?

and I'm far, far harder to kidnap.

Bizarrely we saw this on someone's T-shirt going in to Tesco last night (with a thin stick figure attempting to drag a comatose fat stick figure.)

And it's great to suggest you just let it wash over you. Lots of people can't.

 

[Saluki]

I have just commented on the lady's blog. I got asked if I was a FLOB the other day. I gave him a bit of a look, and then he said "Fabulous Lady on Bike". Made me smile anyway.
There has got to be a better acronym for us gorgeous girls on our bikes though

 

[PhilDawson8270]

if cycling attracts and produces nicer people, what sports or activities don't......

Football

 

[Oldbloke]

Nauseating behaviour.

A couple of years ago I was fishing off a bridge by the roadside, talking to a black Frenchman, when a big bunch of (French) club cyclists rode past loudly making monkey noises.

I was horrified, the bloke just shrugged his shoulders. Cycling has it's share of scumbags like every other sport.

 

[PhilDawson8270]

Association, union, or league?

Association

 

[derrick]

We just have to except the fact that there are plenty of moron's around.

 

[PhilDawson8270]

sorry to say but another poor thought out comment....

Or an attempt at humour?

Lighten up?

 

[Spinney]

Mod note: please stick to the topic, thanks.

 

[Red17]

If the comments happened as blogged then that is despicable, but expecting a different type of person or behaviour from people just because they ride a bike is nonsense

In my case I -
ride a road bike, mountain bike and hybrid (not all at once) generally deemed good on here (apart from not wearing a helmet to commute which 50% on here would see as evil)

drive a car - not so good sometimes
drive a white transit van - evil
ride a motorcycle - hells angel

By my own scoring I have 2 x and 3 x

 

[w00hoo_kent]

But are a ninja, so it doesn't matter. :-)

People are people, I just wish less of them were shoots. (should that be fewer?)

 

[jefmcg]

What a healthy little thread I've started

One thing I note is that while there a quite a few skeptics on here, none of the women are skeptical (hearsay evidence is not admissible ) I've had enough abuse from strangers in my life that I wouldn't be shocked if it came form a cyclist. So that it could happen twice is one day to someone in London who keeps a blog does not sound unlikely at all.

Actually, I have had some nasty abuse from a cyclist, as a pedestrian. I was walking towards a busy train station, quite near the kerb and a narrow cycle lane. A cyclist came from behind me and hit my arm as he attempted to filter past me. I turned and chastised him, and he called me a "farking daffodil" (I wonder how the censor-bot with treat that). The deep and misogynistic hatred in that short sentence has stayed with me.

Edit: The anglo-saxon noun he chose was not daffodil