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Ooooo, I do hope you've got your tin hat on. You're not allowed to say that on here. The 'no such thing as collective responsibility' and 'oooo, victiming blaming bastard' mob will be surrounding you with virtual torches soon.
You're right, of course, but apparently you're still not allowed to say it.
Brommers
I've all but given up my RLJ days, still do it once in a blue moon when I consider it a soft light (and I'd have to show you the specific junctions to define that) but I've actually grown to like stopping because it means you can't be lumped in with the horrific, reactionary diatribe you get from 'motorists' about cyclists, which is essential the same logic that blames women for being raped because they got drunk and wore a short skirt (see never read the comments).
That jumps the shark when you see 'motorists' leaping to the defence of a driver caught eat a bowl of cereal while out driving, by a cyclist. Instead of rounding on the driver you see them complaining about cyclists' bad behaviour, and that is the reason why cyclists get knocked down, hurt and killed, and using it to excuse what she is doing behind the wheel. That is a worrying, pervasive rhetoric and one I have had yelled at me a few times if I've made a mistake or just taken primary and they can't work out why I've 'cut them off'.
Their mentality is cyclists break the law/HWC, so it's their fault they get hit, they (motorists) get the blame and pay for it with increased insurance costs, and so that is also the cyclists fault.
Was about to delete but then I think I have realised my point: every time you jump a red light you perpetuate that victim-blaming rhetoric, and every time you stop you don't, so you do everyone rides a bike a favour. Every time you run one you do the opposite. What's the opposite to a favour, cockpunch? By running a red light you are giving a collective cockpunch/fannyslap to every biker.