I feel like this has been pretty well covered, but I just wanted to say that, as a rule of thumb, if you are going to make a broad generalization about broads, change the word woman/girl/lady for black and see if you think you could get away with saying it without sounding racist.
If someone had said to you "I don't mean to be racist, but I wouldn't let a black guy touch my bike" I'm pretty sure you would have known it was racist.
Sexism works the same way. It is very important in fields where it is very difficult to work as a woman not to propgate myths that it is because it is not a job that they can do. We can, and I'm saying this as a woman that has been in the cycling industry for over ten years but can not seem to make any male customers take me seriously.
It's a little grating.
So hopefully lesson learned, and you can start to look at women as people just that little bit more because of it.
I feel like this has been pretty well covered, but I just wanted to say that, as a rule of thumb, if you are going to make a broad generalization about broads, change the word woman/girl/lady for black and see if you think you could get away with saying it without sounding racist.
If someone had said to you "I don't mean to be racist, but I wouldn't let a black guy touch my bike" I'm pretty sure you would have known it was racist.
Sexism works the same way. It is very important in fields where it is very difficult to work as a woman not to propgate myths that it is because it is not a job that they can do. We can, and I'm saying this as a woman that has been in the cycling industry for over ten years but can not seem to make any male customers take me seriously.
It's a little grating.
So hopefully lesson learned, and you can start to look at women as people just that little bit more because of it.