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This thread is love, I can't even believe it!

• notwithstanding the tension between the 'sceptics' and the anti-antifeminists - I'd always tend to the latter's side, but it's slightly hard, given the sheer damn self-consciousness of the gendering that's going on in the whole thing
  
• one thing that is very much always at the forefront of my mind is the apparent/inherent sexism in a lot of radical/active cycling-related things, and I'm still very much trying to think how the two can best be reconciled (feminism, that is, and cycle-ism) - but it still always seems to be slightly hindered by applying too much of any one particular framing or perspective to any event or its consequents - it's tricky.
  
  

I did also think something when I read this as well

What are you doing to make people so angry?
Honestly, nothing. I’m a good cyclist, I wear a helmet, always stop at traffic lights, indicate and I don’t take up much space on the road.
.. with

I wear a helmet, always stop at traffic lights, indicate and I don’t take up much space on the road.

as examples of how good a cyclist you're being? - It must be said I am very much of the "fuck the law, merge without indicating, sit in the middle of the lane, wear a pointy cap" kind of cyclist, but at least when motor-vehicle-drivers remonstrate with me, I have a water-off-duck's-back air of superiority to combat it with. Obviously this is easy for me, being in a priviledged position to start with - but is it something that should be aspired towards/encouraged? I think probably (obviously?) not, in general , and that there is a future way that involves us all engaging with each other in a much more human, decent and reasonable way - but how best to get from one to the other, is the question.

• that all made no sense. But the bike-building project is awesome!!