Thank you, thank you, thank you for covering the issue of misogyny in bike culture! Beth Bourne is such a powerhouse and we love her here in California. But I do want to give proper credit to Judee See, one of the other women there, who had the courage to walk up to male rider Chelsea Wolfe,
take the video, and talk so calmly in the face of abuse. Her X handle is @XxtraEstroGenny
Thank you for your unwavering commitment to uncovering the misogyny and violence that happens so frequently. It is a sad state of affairs that so many women are so gung-ho about their own erasure. I think it's important to name the underlying cause of all of these horrors: patriarchy. Misogyny is a symptom, not a root cause, of the erasure of women. We can't cure a cancer by naming it something else and trying to treat the wrong thing.
Yes, let's raise awareness of the men invading women's categories in all the different ways that is happening. Yes, let's try to change policies to keep men out of women's spaces. Yes, let's try to talk to the women who are cheering on their own demise and help them see what the harm they are causing to themselves, their daughters, their sisters, to women everywhere.
AND, let's name the real underlying cause that permeates our world, and work on raising everyone's consciousness to raise ourselves out of the patriarchal mind control that has allowed trans ideology to flourish. If we don't do that, the trans cult will be able to come roaring back as soon as we drop even a tiny bit of vigilance.
Another excellent article Sarah! The cycling community is a train wreck for allowing this nonsense. But there are several NGBs that are getting legal help to create loopholes. They are betting that a new Administration will allow them to go back to abusing women. All sports need to carefully read any new policy that purports to "comply" with the EO, NCAA, USOPC, etc. I'm currently waiting to see what USRowing is going to do. They have not been transparent and lie firmly left from their previous behavior.
Absolutely agree that a lot of NGBs, sadly, are just waiting for a new administration so they can go back to destroying women's rights. It's almost as if they see this as their entire raison d'etre
Dads, high school boys, sport scientists--they are speaking up. But as I described, cycling is a small sports populated in large part by men are nonconforming, quirky, and that includes men who are willing to take women's opportunities. If a man speaks out against that, he'll be ostracized just like women who do. Social ostracization and shaming is a powerful tool, and one that's been weaponized uber effectively by trans activism--"inclusion" is kind and progressive; saying men should race in their own category is hateful and bigoted
This not bike culture, it is enabling and codependency of gender dysphoria, a psychosis similar to schizophrenia where the person is OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY. It is inhumane to treat mentally ill people as if they were normal. Violence of any kind perpetrated against anyone should always be dealt with swiftly and justly. Everyone has a right to a safe and healthy environment. Those who threaten or harm others should be excluded. Transvestites, transsexuals and gender dysphoric individuals do not get to parade around as if they are normal and take part in normal activities created for normal people. Maybe Special Olympics will take them?
I think it was a Canadian bike messenger I spoke with last year who said misogyny is the only abuse that's acceptable in our society. I didn't get that exactly right, but what she meant was that violence and abuse of women is so common in our society, it's normalized. We cease to see it. Seventeen women PER WEEK are shot and killed by an intimate partner in the US. The number killed is actually much higher but this is only gun deaths, and only by an intimate partner. By any objective measure, that's genocide. It's rarely mentioned.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for covering the issue of misogyny in bike culture! Beth Bourne is such a powerhouse and we love her here in California. But I do want to give proper credit to Judee See, one of the other women there, who had the courage to walk up to male rider Chelsea Wolfe,
take the video, and talk so calmly in the face of abuse. Her X handle is @XxtraEstroGenny
Absolutely! Beth called outJudee too - these women are giving instruction in bravery
Thank you for your unwavering commitment to uncovering the misogyny and violence that happens so frequently. It is a sad state of affairs that so many women are so gung-ho about their own erasure. I think it's important to name the underlying cause of all of these horrors: patriarchy. Misogyny is a symptom, not a root cause, of the erasure of women. We can't cure a cancer by naming it something else and trying to treat the wrong thing.
Yes, let's raise awareness of the men invading women's categories in all the different ways that is happening. Yes, let's try to change policies to keep men out of women's spaces. Yes, let's try to talk to the women who are cheering on their own demise and help them see what the harm they are causing to themselves, their daughters, their sisters, to women everywhere.
AND, let's name the real underlying cause that permeates our world, and work on raising everyone's consciousness to raise ourselves out of the patriarchal mind control that has allowed trans ideology to flourish. If we don't do that, the trans cult will be able to come roaring back as soon as we drop even a tiny bit of vigilance.
Another excellent article Sarah! The cycling community is a train wreck for allowing this nonsense. But there are several NGBs that are getting legal help to create loopholes. They are betting that a new Administration will allow them to go back to abusing women. All sports need to carefully read any new policy that purports to "comply" with the EO, NCAA, USOPC, etc. I'm currently waiting to see what USRowing is going to do. They have not been transparent and lie firmly left from their previous behavior.
Absolutely agree that a lot of NGBs, sadly, are just waiting for a new administration so they can go back to destroying women's rights. It's almost as if they see this as their entire raison d'etre
As a man, I wonder where are the men? Do no men speak up?
My feeling is that society has allocated key resources, experiences and honors to women.
When this is taken from women it is theft, no different from lifting a wallet or stealing food under threat of violence.
Criminal fraud.
That’s all.
Dads, high school boys, sport scientists--they are speaking up. But as I described, cycling is a small sports populated in large part by men are nonconforming, quirky, and that includes men who are willing to take women's opportunities. If a man speaks out against that, he'll be ostracized just like women who do. Social ostracization and shaming is a powerful tool, and one that's been weaponized uber effectively by trans activism--"inclusion" is kind and progressive; saying men should race in their own category is hateful and bigoted
Time to organize female only for women…
This not bike culture, it is enabling and codependency of gender dysphoria, a psychosis similar to schizophrenia where the person is OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY. It is inhumane to treat mentally ill people as if they were normal. Violence of any kind perpetrated against anyone should always be dealt with swiftly and justly. Everyone has a right to a safe and healthy environment. Those who threaten or harm others should be excluded. Transvestites, transsexuals and gender dysphoric individuals do not get to parade around as if they are normal and take part in normal activities created for normal people. Maybe Special Olympics will take them?
I think it was a Canadian bike messenger I spoke with last year who said misogyny is the only abuse that's acceptable in our society. I didn't get that exactly right, but what she meant was that violence and abuse of women is so common in our society, it's normalized. We cease to see it. Seventeen women PER WEEK are shot and killed by an intimate partner in the US. The number killed is actually much higher but this is only gun deaths, and only by an intimate partner. By any objective measure, that's genocide. It's rarely mentioned.
https://youtu.be/j5RuCEhHcG4
beth should be carrying heqvy duty pepper spray and lighting up anyone who assaults or steals from her.
Lowered testosterone levels don't change the enormous physiological advantage that males have! No males belong in female competitive categories.
Regardless of testosterone levels.