Creepy? You gotta be kidding. Irrelevant? The point is to show that women (who make up a small percentage of bike riders in the US) can happily and safely use bikes as their primary mode of transportation... without helmets... so long as the society respects their right to be on the road.

And just because I know that "ya, but the traffic is a lot worse in the US, it's more dangerous" is coming, take note of this. In the US the cyclist's fatality rate (per distance) is over *6 times higher* than the rate in Denmark... even though a 10 times higher percentage of US cyclists wear helmets! Yes traffic is a *lot* worse... but guess what... wearing a helmet doesn't help (as you would know if you checked any of the links I posted). If you'd like to be *safe* it would be good to ponder what might actually help.