mikedao · June 30, 2016 00:34
diff --git a/Women and Cycling.txt b/Women and Cycling.txt
 By Ramona Flour et al.

 1. Being a woman is kind of like being a cyclist in a city where all the cars represent men.
 2. You're supposed to be able to share the road equally with cars, but that's not how it works.
 3. The roads are built for cars and you spend a great deal of physical and mental energy being defensive and trying not to get hurt.
 4. Some of the cars WANT you to get hurt. They think you don't have any place on the road at all.
 5. And if you do get hurt by a car, everyone makes excuses that it's your fault.
 6. Bicycle lanes are built just for you, and then the cars drive in those too.
 7. And you can't go out at night because cars will run right over you.
 8. You better watch out for the drunk ones.
 9. Even if you DO use the bicycle lanes because it is "safer for you," a lot of times there are obstacles and other things in the way to make it more difficult to navigate.
 10. Sometimes cars will honk or swerve at you for their entertainment and the drivers will laugh when you react defensively, because they're safe in their car and don't realize how dangerous that looks to you on your bike.
 11. Some places have much better cycling lanes than ohters, which is good for those places! But it doesn't fix the unequally-shared-road problem and really underlines how cyclist-unfriendly other places are.
 12. The Door Zone in genearl. Will ever parked car slam a door open directly into your path as you're passing? No, of course not. Do you have to watch every parked car for opening doors anyways? yes! Because even one suprise crash can into a suddenly appearing door can lead to injury, sometimes serious, or even death.
	By Ramona Flour et al.

	1. Being a woman is kind of like being a cyclist in a city where all the cars represent men.
	2. You're supposed to be able to share the road equally with cars, but that's not how it works.
	3. The roads are built for cars and you spend a great deal of physical and mental energy being defensive and trying not to get hurt.
	4. Some of the cars WANT you to get hurt. They think you don't have any place on the road at all.
	5. And if you do get hurt by a car, everyone makes excuses that it's your fault.
	6. Bicycle lanes are built just for you, and then the cars drive in those too.
	7. And you can't go out at night because cars will run right over you.
	8. You better watch out for the drunk ones.
	9. Even if you DO use the bicycle lanes because it is "safer for you," a lot of times there are obstacles and other things in the way to make it more difficult to navigate.
	10. Sometimes cars will honk or swerve at you for their entertainment and the drivers will laugh when you react defensively, because they're safe in their car and don't realize how dangerous that looks to you on your bike.
	11. Some places have much better cycling lanes than ohters, which is good for those places! But it doesn't fix the unequally-shared-road problem and really underlines how cyclist-unfriendly other places are.
	12. The Door Zone in genearl. Will ever parked car slam a door open directly into your path as you're passing? No, of course not. Do you have to watch every parked car for opening doors anyways? yes! Because even one suprise crash can into a suddenly appearing door can lead to injury, sometimes serious, or even death.