http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Hoy's first bike was a girl's bike en Mon, 18 May 2026 11:08:41 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6153#post-65790 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:04:15 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 65790@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"[]i... wondering if I am a boy or a girl because I have short hair and girls have long hair... [/i]"</p> <p>BURN THE WITCH!!!!!</p> <p>;) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6153#post-65781 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:34:52 +0000 fimm 65781@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nice one, good luck Min (I think the Hadrian's Wall run is the same day as the WHW, otherwise Mr fimm was interested too).</p> <p>(I have neices and their stuff is more pink than a pink thing. Sigh. They also went through a phase of wondering if I am a boy or a girl because I have short hair and girls have long hair...) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6153#post-65773 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:41:11 +0000 amir 65773@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Carlisle to Gateshead via Hadrian's Wall."</p> <p>Wow - that's positively heroic. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6153#post-65745 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:07:56 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 65745@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Of course pink used to be, years and years back, the colour that boys were dressed in. no idea why if shifted, but there you go.</p> <p>As SRD says, it's not so much the colour itself, but the associations. Funnily enough, I have a few pink shirts, and have a few people I know whose immediate response is that they're a bit 'gay'*</p> <p>*which brings in another ridiculous concept of 'gay' as a term of abuse. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6153#post-65744 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:06:18 +0000 Min 65744@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>*anyone else suffer stereotype rage when they see the "boys" and "girls" toy aisles in shops? &gt;:-&lt;</p> <p>Yes. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6153#post-65743 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:05:08 +0000 SRD 65743@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>smudge - there's a great campaign on this <a href="http://www.pinkstinks.co.uk/">'pink stinks'</a>. </p> <p>"Pinkstinks is a campaign that targets the products, media and marketing that prescribe heavily stereotyped and limiting roles to young girls."</p> <p>Of course, I do think we have to be reasonable. My girl quite likes wearing pink, but she also loved her bob the builder scooter etc. Its not the colour that is bad. It's the associations and the marketing and the stereotypes that are offensive. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6153#post-65742 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:03:17 +0000 Min 65742@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Carlisle to Gateshead via Hadrian's Wall. The West Highland Way one is a possibility for next year if I decide to keep it up. :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6153#post-65741 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:59:50 +0000 fimm 65741@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>What are you doing, Min? (Mr fimm is running the West Highland Way race in June, so I've become interested in ultramarathons...) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6153#post-65740 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:59:28 +0000 Smudge 65740@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Kaputnik, "Perhaps I'm a future Olympic champion?" if there was the slightest suspicion it might work the peleton would be a sea of Barbie pink* and bar end tassels!! :-D</p> <p>*anyone else suffer stereotype rage when they see the "boys" and "girls" toy aisles in shops? &gt;:-&lt; </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6153#post-65736 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:46:20 +0000 cb 65736@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>And...</p> <p><a href="http://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-news/top-stories/lady-s-day-as-portuguese-runner-seals-historic-win-in-capital-race-1-2236446">Woman, yes WOMAN, wins Edinburgh Half Marathon</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6153#post-65735 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:46:12 +0000 Smudge 65735@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Well, it's difficult in heels. "<br /> But not impossible.. (damhikijkok!)</p> <p>Agree with all above, lazy sexist non-story. </p> <p>I hardly think he's about to be upset about his mum telling people when he himself mentions it in his own autobiography! I rather think that's the journalists own prejudices showing there, from what I remember of that part of his book Mr Hoy was (rightly) mainly just enjoying having a bike :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6153#post-65733 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:19:40 +0000 Kirst 65733@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That's a brilliant news page Min. Chocolate rage, murderous swans... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6153#post-65725 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:04:09 +0000 steveo 65725@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Apparently 800m was considered too much.</em></p> <p>Its a bit much for me! Can't comment on any one else though... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6153#post-65724 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:02:28 +0000 RJ 65724@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>&lt;quote = Mrs Hoy&gt; “His first ever bike was a girl’s bike, handed over by a neighbour. I don’t think he realised it was a girl’s bike at the time. <strong>He managed to break that very quickly</strong>, which perhaps meant he’d like a new one.” &lt;/quote&gt;</p> <p>... or that "girls'" frames are less strong (which is why the women in my life choose to ride "men's" diamond frames).</p> <p>But yes, agree with you all (though pass on running in heels due to lack of direct experience) - what a rubbish piece of sub-editing from the Evilling News. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6153#post-65723 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:01:29 +0000 Min 65723@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Found the article on the BBC. Apparently 800m was considered too much.</p> <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17632029" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17632029</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6153#post-65720 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:57:43 +0000 Min 65720@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I believe women could not run more than a mile and a half then. Too weak you see.*</p> <p>Kirst has hit the nail on the head here.</p> <p>*I'll be running 70 in June. Wish me luck.. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6153#post-65716 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:39:32 +0000 Kirst 65716@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well, it's difficult in heels. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6153#post-65715 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:38:45 +0000 SRD 65715@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>well said kirst, despite much progress*, its shameful that these default positions still exist.</p> <p>*40 years ago, women couldn't run the boston marathan! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6153#post-65713 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:34:38 +0000 Kirst 65713@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That's because male and masculine are portrayed as the default and as superior. Female and feminine are portrayed as the inferior variant. It's ok for girls to have "boys' things" because they are to be aspired to, but it's shameful for a boy to have or want "girl's things" because they are lesser.</p> <p>I'll be a post-feminist in the post-patriarchy, me. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6153#post-65712 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:31:23 +0000 kaputnik 65712@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My first bike was a "girl's" bike, as in it was my sister's old one. Cute we metalic orange thing with chunky white tyres.</p> <p>Perhaps I'm a future Olympic champion?</p> <p>Don't think a "Pendelton's first bike was a boy's bike" article would have been deemed worthy of print. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6153#post-65711 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:29:36 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 65711@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<em>Misogyny is so engrained into our patriarchal culture</em>"</p> <p>I agree with Reg!</p> <p>Seriously, it's odd isn't it? Whatever you ride indeed. But for a headline "Hoy's mum emotional at son winning gold medals" was always going to be trumped by Hoy clearly being all girly on a bike he had when he was a nipper. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6153#post-65710 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:25:54 +0000 Kirst 65710@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>God, this pisses me off. There's nothing shameful about having a girl's bike because there's nothing shameful about being a girl. Misogyny is so engrained into our patriarchal culture. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6153#post-65708 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:22:57 +0000 SRD 65708@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"whatever you ride" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6153#post-65707 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:22:24 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 65707@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.scotsman.com/edinburgh-evening-news/chris-hoy-s-mum-says-his-first-bike-was-a-girl-s-1-2238253">Newsworthy?</a> </p>