Issue one: assuming Females are incapable of Fixing Stuff
Female rocks up on her bike and Chauvinistic idiot #1 turns to the Female's Boyfriend and tells him three hundred different ways the Female's bike needs work - but this is typical. Everyone wants to tell you what's wrong with your bike. But only Chauvinistic idiots ignore Female On Bike and informs the Boyfriend Standing Nearby of all the things the Female's bike needs done, and how the Boyfriend is responsible for doing the work because Female is clearly incapable.
Several stupid assumptions are made in a mere five minutes: Female is incapable of bleeding her own brakes; Female is incapable of even taking an Allen key to adjust her own pegs; the Female could not have possibly installed a simple alarm to her battery by herself, god forbid.
Patient Female finally gets a word in: "Actually I'm quite happy with where my pegs are"
Chauvinist turns to Boyfriend and repeats: "Mate, you need to move her pegs up. They're no good where they are."
Issue Two: assuming Females only got into riding because of Motorcycling Boyfriend
self-explanatory and often not true. Even if true, totally irrelevant to just about everything. But fucking annoying when Chauvinistic idiots turn to Boyfriend on His Bike and commends him for getting 'a lady' into riding. Actually, fuckwit, motorcycling DOES occur to Females without the inspiration of a Motorcycling Male.
Issue Three: bike Dealers & salespeople
Dealer to Boyfriend: This bike is great for pillioning (gesturing to Female)
Boyfriend: actually she is looking for a bike, not me
Dealer to Boyfriend: Oh, well it's great to see ladies get into riding
Boyfriend: well actually she's been riding for a while
Dealer to Boyfriend: Oh well...it's great to see ladies upgrading.
[...because all women are on 250s?]
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