I don't watch MTV, so maybe that would have been a reference to this being a joke, as far as following her "story"
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I don't watch MTV, so maybe that would have been a reference to this being a joke, as far as following her "story"
Agree with him --just wait for Trek's response.Quote:
Originally Posted by beccaB
Don't take this too personally --a tendency of many women re: jokes/pranks. Alot of guys laugh off this stuff, when they do it among themselves. After all, I nearly fell for it myself, since I wondered who this 'woman' was.
I do think this was delibrately planted into our forum to see our response..a women's cycling forum.
I think it's even worse that this was actually perpetuated by the woman herself. You'd expect this of men. Fow a Woman to do it in unacceptable.Quote:
Originally Posted by WindingRoad
I'm with you.Quote:
Originally Posted by ny biker
If a woman was invited to ride in the TdF I would be really really surprised. I wouldn't doubt her ability because if someone knows something about it, and who can compete in it, it's the teams who do. I really doubt it is going to happen any time soon, if ever, so if it is such an unprecedented thing, they're not really poking fun at inability of women to compete in it. It's just too far out of the realm of possibility and that's why it's humorous.
Karen
I think this is a gross generalization. I don't "expect this of men." I know men who are more sensitive to women's feelings than some women are.Quote:
Originally Posted by beccaB
Last year's one about some rider getting carbon bone replacements was way better.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_de...e_F%C3%A9minin
Just thought this was interesting...
Yes, you do have a point. Just venting angrily I suppose. I was and still sort of am still- excited about getting my new bike, and became upset that something was bursting my bubble. I didn't want my bubble burst. I don't think this whole thing would carry so much weight with me if I wasn't in the process of making a major purchase of a trek bike.Quote:
Originally Posted by ny biker
My daughter explained it to me fairly well. It's amazing that kids grow up and the parents can glean some wisdom from their nearly adult children. She is a musician and plays a very finely made musical instrument. She said that if the company did some stupid stunt she wouldn't stop playing that instrument or refuse to buy anything else from that company ever again.
i received this email also, as I am on their mailing list.
it got me for a second, then i read the "happy april fools day" and realized it was a joke.
i'm not the least bit bothered by it, and this coming from someone who is extremely sensitive to the us-vs-them mentality.
maybe if a guy were to see it he would think, yah right, a woman couldn't ride the tour. of course "he" couldn't ride the tour either. but maybe also if a guy reads this forum he thinks we're way over-reacting. i think we are too.
most of the guys i work with know they couldn't do what i do - ride centuries, ride every day, ride to work - and they tell me so.
my take on the email was that it referred to an ordinary corporate exec not specifically a woman. they even showed a picture of a radio shack rider facing behind him and her face was superimposed over it. i thought it was cute.
Except that's not how it was phrased.Quote:
Originally Posted by PinkBike
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...the first female to compete along side the male competitors in this year's 2010 Tour de France. "This is groundbreaking," proclaimed Johan Bruyneel. ... open's the door for other women coming up the ranks.
if anything MTV's MADE is a show about unlikely candidates trying something that seems impossible (like an unathletic guy turning into a ladies man). it just adds to the ridiculousness of her making the tour.Quote:
Originally Posted by beccaB