Originally Posted by
seypat
As for getting passed, unless you are #1 on the Earth in whatever you do, there will always be someone stronger, faster, better looking, richer, etc.
And in everything but cycling .. it Will be Me!
Originally Posted by
kbarch
The original post seemed as honest as any to me. What particular statement was petty - and since when were 50 year-old folks not that way? Seems to me that introspection and questioning are par for the course when a mature person starts getting serious about some endeavor or pastime.
Yeah, it is around middle age, when you see yourself and the world changing really radically that people are likely to freeze up and stop growing ... and also, someone who is about 50 was certainly raised before Title IX, before women in sport were such a big thing ... when rather, extreme boundaries on women in sports were lifted somewhat.
Such peopoe are likely to be upset by say, women wrestlers, or girls in little league or Pop Warner football ... they’d get upset about female rugby except they haven’t heard of rugby.
These are exactly the men I would expect to be a little offended/threatened/upset generally to be passed by a woman.
It’s no big deal, just something to stretch into a silly, multi-page thread filled with assumptions and misinformation.
We call them/” Pepe and Dan” threads.