Originally Posted by
Dagmarthegreat
Yeah, I was always reluctant to ride my bike to and from my college's campus, I feel like it's exacerbated by being female because rarely have the comments been about cycling, they're generally something sexually suggestive if not outright explicit. Trying to work up the courage to take up cycling again now that I'm back in the U.S., after the bike-friendly culture of Germany I'm not sure I'm ready to encounter having comments about my hindquarters yelled at from the cab of two-ton pickups again... It definitely is discouraging, but I'm trying to not let that sort of behavior discourage me from doing something I love, as I don't think that there is actually any danger in most cases.
Yeah, I love that, especially when it's followed with the "what, I'm just paying you a compliment" bull. Put some people behind a steel, glass, moving protective device and there's not much they won't yell out the window to anyone. There's a really funny
post on ****** where people write about the weird comments they've gotten and things they've had thrown at them while running.
There's not much to do about that except ignore it and don't escalate. If possible, try to alter your route so you're not exposed to as many of them.
In a practical sense, you might want to look into altering your route if possible.