Women and aggressive driving/cycling (Brain-ache-bint)

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.