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So this makes sexism and misogyny acceptable?
The thread itself isn't flawed. There are a lot of eligible bachelors on here, and there are a lot of women in London wondering how to find eligible bachelors. And there is intra-community dating on LFGSS, and it works as often as it doesn't work, but when it does or doesn't work that's because of the compatibility of the people involved rather than anything about the forum.
My comment on the thread from the outset was that whilst it should work, it wouldn't. Because of the levels of sexism in the community. It's too male-dominated, too much of a sausage party. And cycling communities seem to do a good job of repelling women.
This of course is hilarious as then down the pub or on a ride, someone will lament how they can't find a nice girl, still single, etc. But yet their online behaviour has all of the answers they need.
This thread may have been dominated by one person, but even so what made it a terrible thread wasn't any whiff of desperation, it was the sexism and misogyny of the men. The hate and loathing displayed by them.
This sausage party has a much larger problem than the alleged desperate woman, and it may come as a surprise to the reader, but the elephant in the room is that a very vocal minority on here are apparently some of the most sexist people I've ever seen online.
Whilst there's little point of me banning every person who makes a sexist comment (they would never learn, some % of the population is sexist and as a microcosm of that we would always have some %, i.e. it's ineffective)... I think blinkering ourselves and ignoring the elephant in the room is crazy.
This cycling community, along with many other male dominated spaces, has many sexist members, to the point that everyday sexism is largely ignored. And worse still, ignoring the everyday sexism allows misogynists to exist here largely unchallenged.
This thread's problem, what makes it terrible... is the same as the forum's problem. That people stand by and chuckle as such behaviour goes on.