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So it's a crap thread. I'm not sure that amounts to much of an excuse.

A crap thread? On here? Whatcha talkin' 'bout, Twillis?

crap thread?

All you sewing lot thread >>>>>>>>>>>>

The £100 for hanging out the back of stoosh and the laughing at depressives were both pretty indefensible comments IMHO. I think he should be thankful it was just a month.

And yet you can post racist shit like marcom. Racism > sexism.

Racism > sexism.

wtf?

Ok, sexism > racism

See the absurd side?

Ffs!

EEI are you arguing with yourself now?

*[I]*But which side would you take if there was a war between dwarves and the blacks?[/I]

And yet you can post racist shit like marcom. Racism > sexism.

I didn't see marcom's post as I think he edited it before I got there.

Although didn't he just use a racist word rather than aim a comment at an individual? Also pisti's sexist comment was in a thread more or less aimed at a female readership... I think the subject of a sentance and the context make a lot of difference to a words meaning.

So where's marcom's ban for blatant racism?

If it's aimed at a female readership, why isn't it in the ladies forum?

Would you like it moved?

It's a terrible thread that whiffs of quiet desperation.

Agreed.

Although wasn't the spotted thread conceived for a similar reason originally?

No idea. Not my gaff.

So where's marcom's ban for blatant racism?

He's been both banned before and warned before. If I'm not doing either it's because no-one is reporting it.

By and large I also prefer that jerks are held to account by their peers and are not silenced, as they tend to think there's no issue with what they're saying beyond some set of rules that are meant to be broken.

So unless it's got to the point that strong objection is achieving nothing, I wouldn't ban on a couple of isolated reported posts.

If it's aimed at a female readership, why isn't it in the ladies forum?

Is that a serious question?

Ideally the ladies forum shouldn't need to exist. It only does because the levels of implicit sexism is so high that they've felt that it is worth segregating themselves such that they are able to control a very small piece of the forum and at least stand a chance of keeping it free from sexism.

To say that they have no right to post anything anywhere else is pretty bad, no content should be segregated by sex or gender at all. But if it's going to happen let only the girls decide the bits that they want to do it to.

Boys really have no say in whether to segregate girls, only the girls do.

Sorry bodie, I know you and know you're not sexist. But that comment gives off a nasty whiff and I'm sure some will have read it and thought "Yeah!", but actually "No!".

It all comes from the username. Bodie and Doyle were terribly sexist.

It's a terrible thread that whiffs of quiet desperation.

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.

I'll come back to you in a bit - I'm on an iPhone and they're really not the best.

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See. It's comments like that, that are clearly ajoke (right?, that get picked up on and thought to be the "spirit of the forum". And drag the place further down.

I'll come back to you in a bit - I'm on an iPhone and they're really not the best.

where does hate against apple fit into all this?

sexism <> racism > forrin baiting > appleism > ubinscobled > bikeradar >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>