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@ioreka
so much this. i appreciate that not every person does it, and not every woman has to experience the unfortunate everyday corollaries of it, but it absolutely sucks. it's infuriating. i know exactly what you mean when you describe that sinking feeling of the lights going red and slowing down only to realise you're pulling up to a van or car with a male driver/passenger/full carload and an open window...
i mean things like assos's publicity:
don't help, and neither do accounts like fixiegirls which seem to exist purely to fetishise the female form on bikes (which maddens me because it implies that a girl riding fixed, and even moreso brakeless is somehow omfg so hawt and skilled, wow she must want my attention if she's taking and sharing pictures of herself riding HHSB brakless, ima comment on that so she knows i like it). i've got them to take down my picture before which they regrammed without permission as if they were doing me some sort of favour - i'm much more happy when cyclelikeagirl pop up on my dash etc
basically, those whom this doesn't affect argue that all the aforementioned things are unconnected and it's just a bit of harmless fun, or that men have unfair societal expectations (but they're never terribly sexualised, are they?) etc. women (and others) who have to deal with all this stupid shit every day know that it's all contributing factors in how and why society values women less than men.
@xRuwx20 - mon who started house of astbury is on the forum somewhere, we do track together and she also rides cross :) she's badass!