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so much #rep to this.
so much #rep to this.
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Doctor_Cake
@The_Seldom_Killer
Ah fuck it, I'm going to keep on going because my mind is soooo under occupied.
I'm not over educated, not in the slightest. Academically I'm pretty shit and, unless you actually dropped out of secondary school, I'm probably worse educated than you. And if you set the bar for over-educated rests at completing secondary school, then seriously, that is a bar way too fucking low. But all of that isn't relevant, not in the slightest. Some riders in the pro-peleton actually have degrees and I'm guessing you aren't dismissing their opinion on cycling matters. If you are then that now might be the most ridiculous idea you've ever had.
And cycling is in the real world. It's not on another planet, it's not in another plane of existence or another universe. It's in this world and all of the blood, sweat, tears, joys and drama are real. Really properly real and really in this world. So if we're going to effect change in the real world, cycling gets to be included in that, whether you like it or not.
And again, it's quite irrelevant, but I am straight. Straight and happily married to a real actual woman. Not a kitchen dwelling sandwich machine though, a woman who races bicycles. A woman who has been ignored and sidelined time and time again by men like you. A woman who's been reduced simply to her looks because her ability to make a bike go fast and her massively over-educated engineering degree aren't worth anything in your warped notion of the "real world". And it may just surprise you that I'm not the only straight man to hold my views on podium girls, not by a fucking long chalk.