Women and aggressive driving/cycling (Brain-ache-bint)
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Edited to make it easier to digest.
The point:
Bit of chauvinism here,
Why is it when women demonstrate aggressive actions such as offensive or even defensive driving/cycling/pushchair handling they have to do it with an unprecedented level of aggression with seemingly no awareness of the people or things around them?
How do they get by in life living in a tunnel and a thought process that only allows them to think about achieving the goal but not how they go about achieving the goal itself?
See you stupid bints, that's what knowing the goal and thinking about how to achieve the goal looks like.
I'm seriously loosing my cool over this.
The point:
Bit of chauvinism here,
Why is it when women demonstrate aggressive actions such as offensive or even defensive driving/cycling/pushchair handling they have to do it with an unprecedented level of aggression with seemingly no awareness of the people or things around them?
How do they get by in life living in a tunnel and a thought process that only allows them to think about achieving the goal but not how they go about achieving the goal itself?
The rant
Point in case. Barin-ache-bint (Woman driver) at a set of traffic lights by Tooting Broadway. Now she is hanging in the ASL and I'm also in the ASL. The lights go green and she wants to get going. Does she wait for me to set off and then drive around me giving me space? Does she f*ck. Nope she goes with me as the lights go green driving straight and thereby wedging me between the curb and her car. As soon as her bonnet is just in front of my front tyre she roars off until the next set of lights where we meet again only this time windows up, doors locked and her firmly looking straight. :roll:
It's happened to me in Colliers Wood, Tooting and Clapham on a number of occasions throughout the years. Different cars, different driver but still a Woman.
Now sure there are men that do this but more often than not but in my experience when a Male driver wants to get ahead of the cyclist he'll let the cyclist go so a space emerges and then drives around the cyclist given room. More Men, it seems are, are aware that sometimes you need to brake and slow down to get around an obstacle quicker in order to make the overall journey faster.
And it's not simply a case of more male drivers on the road so more examples. There are three types of male drivers in the scenario. (i) The guys that wait for you to go and then they overtake giving room. Plenty of them. (ii) They guys that st and wait and don't overtake because they realise they are in traffic and aren't too fused about overtaking you only to sit in traffic 3 feet up the road. Plenty of them. (iii) The guys that overtake in the same way as the woman did. Not too many of them on my commute anymore.
With women, two types. (i) The passive sit and wait behind the cyclist only overtaking if they absolutely have to and they do so giving so much room they now become a threat to oncoming traffic. (ii) The overly aggressive woman who doesn't give room and has no regard for her surroundings beyond reaching her goal. Sadly I'm finding this 50/50 during my encounters with female drivers.
Female Cycling commuters, it's the same thing. I'm waiting at the ASL, I've overtaken her and if not for the lights she'd never see me again. But she does because the lights are red. So what does brain-ache-bint do. Pushes past the other 8 cyclist in the ASL and plonks her bike in front of us or in front of a car (if we are waiting behind a car) not only holding us up but also making it tricky for us to get round her because she insists on riding as far from the curb as feasibly possible.
Or another scenario when stopped at the lights, brain-ache-bint will pull up beside you, set off with you riding a quarter-inch slightly behind you in that position that boxes you in and prevents you from seeing over your right shoulder. And she'll do this even though she can clearly see a obstacle ahead that you can't really speed up and maneuver safely but you'll need to get around. She won't tap her breaks, slow down and let you out. No she'll ride you into the obstacle or force you to slow down leaving you to make all kinds of hand gestures to the long line of cyclists or traffic behind her that she's holding up.
Seriously, yes I know that there are more men and therefore more examples of men doing sensible things. But of the women I encounter a higher percentage get right up my wick because their actions while perfectly fine for them are senseless when you look at the knock on effect to those around them.
I've lost count how many times I have had my ankle taken out in Morrison's because a woman is desperately trying to get to a food item or a till and pushed her pushchair or trolley to get there at all costs with what seems to be no awareness of the people or things around her.
See you stupid bints, that's what knowing the goal and thinking about how to achieve the goal looks like.
I'm seriously loosing my cool over this.
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A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
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"As I said last time, it won't happen again."
this will only work if you whisper "Awoogah" in her ear
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DDD, maybe you just tolerate that kind of behaviour less from women so you notice it more?
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Perhaps though it's because of chauvanists making them believe they need to be extra aggressive / defensive just to get themselves noticed.
This morning I was on the ramp onto tower bridge when some silly cow decided she wasnt happy being stuck in traffic decided to turn left. I was inside her so made eye contact carried on and shook my head. Next thing I know she is slamming the horn and rolls down her window "F*ck you, you c*nt" gets screamed. She was so mental even the white man van I was next to thought she was over the top! She obviously wasn't happy with my critique of her driving!
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There was one bint in Clapham who tried to drive me down by not giving enough space, I gestured to her and she drove past me with her middle finger raised aimed at the window towards me.
She literally drove the car for 3 secs before having to stop in traffic. I rode pass her looking at her through the window (fit as cheese on beans - yum) and we laughed about it.
She gave me space at our next encounter.
That was nice.
A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
She left hooked me, then gave me the finger...
Oo-err.
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"As I said last time, it won't happen again."
This thread needs to be male only.
She may have noticed but she wasn't pleased!
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DDD, an interesting related one for you when junior comes along. See who lets you cross the road when you are out with the baby buggy. I can tell by vehicle and demographic who will wave me across to the point that I would bet serious money, and who will rev the engine and block your way even though they won't make progress.
She's visibly pregnant. I've offered to get the train with her one day....
But yeah I'm sure and aware that there are certain demographics that tend to do things more than others.
A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
Then I started thinking about Japanese women dressing up to hyper-feminise in a countrywhere the men are generally more petit and have more feminine features than those in the west.....
In truth...I didn't get much passed the long socks.
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Agreed.
I have never seen a female grant a seat on public transport to a person who needs it more (be they pregnant, older etc....)
What I have seen lots of times though, is a guy sitting several seats behind many young healthy wimmmins....get up to offer his seat to someone who needed it more, while the wimmins in front of him didn't even blink.
These wimmins need to be a bit more chivalrous if you ask me.
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I should add, that it might surprise you who is the nicer group.
Part of the same thing DDD is describing, in my opinion. Tunnel vision.
In my experience, bad male drivers are aggressive and impatient, and bad female drivers just have no idea what is going on around them.
Which is it?
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You know where this is going . .
On goes his left hand indicator and you can just tell he's angling to edge me out or left hook me..... but the car in front isn't clearing and he's trapped on my outside...
I shout . . .
"Are you kidding me - no no no"
Just in case he'd hope I'd go left with him rather than straight on..
He backed off
As I'm clearing the junction he beeps me.
Why beep me? That's impotent rage that is. He should relax more.
What would Thora Hurd do?
I think we've found the woman of the story
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Silence, burd-thing! Haven't you got some tea to make, and men-types to serve? :twisted:
DDD, if you want to disarm the situation, I suggest you face her, twiddle one of your nipples, thrust your hips forwards and say in an alluring but not very good south American accent "you want some of theezz?"
Lick you lips ostentatiously for added effect.
Just don't mention a price.
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Personally I think it's because Women don't believe they have anything to lose. Two blokes involved there is a measured approach to DefCon Nuclear... Women, my Mum and Mrs DDD including, just go straight for the nuclear option and loose their tempers (far quicker than men).
Why? They've never had to deal with real retaliation, they've probably always experienced men restraining themselves during bouts of road rage while they fly off the handle. They've never had to worry about a tear up in the street like you can get between two men. You see a tear up is an option for men, for your everyday woman it's largely not a possibility.
When I was younger I saw one woman do the same thing that was done to me but she did knock the cyclist off. He got up lifted his bike up and repeatedly attempted to put the wheel through her window. At the time I was like "Oh how terrible, a Man doing that to a Woman". Thinking back to it, she was inconsiderate and dangerous. F*ck her, should have landed the tyre on her chin arrogant cow.
A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
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Little did she know that she was mere seconds away from you grabbing her by the vajazzle and forcing her to say sorry!
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