As a straight white guy, it kinda feels like “stolen valor” to claim it, but I feel like I know what being an oppressed minority is like because I’m a cyclist.
This isn’t a new thing, by the way. Cycling has been considered sort of subversive against the patriarchic social order going all the way back to the Victorian era and suffragettes and whatnot:
Here hear. As a basically straightish white guy, I’ve had so many bad interactions with drivers that I bike a lot less than I otherwise would; and I try and take my biking journeys across areas where no cars go. It’s made me more kind to cyclists on the road. It’s a social issue about the existence of assholes that I don’t know how to solve.
As a straight white guy, it kinda feels like “stolen valor” to claim it, but I feel like I know what being an oppressed minority is like because I’m a cyclist.
This isn’t a new thing, by the way. Cycling has been considered sort of subversive against the patriarchic social order going all the way back to the Victorian era and suffragettes and whatnot:
Here hear. As a basically straightish white guy, I’ve had so many bad interactions with drivers that I bike a lot less than I otherwise would; and I try and take my biking journeys across areas where no cars go. It’s made me more kind to cyclists on the road. It’s a social issue about the existence of assholes that I don’t know how to solve.