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What Queer People and Cyclists Both Know (jesusurbanist.substack.com)
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[–] 31 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

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:

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago

    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.

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