RANT ALERT – Getting fed up..

I’m getting sick and tired of every reasonable debate seemingly turning into some sort of misogynistic parry of “oh, I was going to reply with something interesting but I’ve just realised you’re that bird who likes to stick up for equal prize money – so I’m basically going to treat you with utter disdain because obviously, despite the fact that you ride for a successful women’s domestic team and train for 16 hours a week and work in a highly technical role, your opinion on anything is definitely worth less than half of anything a male counterpart could come up with”.

I don’t mind putting up with the fact that there are a LOT of armchair pros on these forums (sorry, but we all know this is true) because it’s the internet and people like to feel important. However, it seems like every 4 out of 5 in-depth threads seemingly get turned on their head by someone making the above assumption.

If one more idiot calls me “babe”, “love”, “sweetheart” or simply winks at my responses I will hunt them down like the rabid rats that they are.

There aren’t many women on this forum, but of the ones that do use it frequently – they are knowledgeable, experienced and well known riders, and we shouldn’t really have to put up with this. If it were once or twice then fine but it seems to be increasing exponentially at the moment and it’s genuinely making use of this website unpleasant.

Rant over.