adam holt

Amen. I'm not an overly sensitive person, but I'm not looking forward to the day that I have to explain to my little daughters why some doofus thinks that "riding like a girl" is a funny insult. At the very least, it's a total lack of creativity in the realm of heckling.

I appreciate those that have chimed in with their stories of being passed by incredibly athletically gifted women, but I don't think that's the point the original poster was trying to make. If you're gonna heckle (and you SHOULD EXPECT to be heckled, as well as partake in said heckling, at a CX race), and least make 'em laugh.

Adam

> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:54:36 -0700
> From: spencer.bushnell@gmail.com
> To: obra@list.obra.org
> Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] "You got passed by a girl, " said the slack jawed yokel at PIR
>
> Shouting "you got passed by a girl" IMPLIES inferiority. One would not say "you got passed by a _____ (insert any number of racial, cultural, gender,etc stereotypes)". In fact, if you were to say something like that to wrong person you might get roughed up.
> +1 for being pissed by that behavior. Good on ya for standing up to it.
> Heckling's fun, but putting down a class of people while doing so just illustrates one's ignorance.
> Finally, if its not nice, dont say it.
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