THe article is very good... it takes a sympathetic view of her position. I'd recommend reading it.

This forum has such a great mix of women of different lifesyles, ethnicity, cycling experience, cycling goals... many have played other sports, or no sports at all.

I just thought this would be an interesting topic to discuss...

Discrimination confuses me too... all kinds of discrimination. It seems (and I know this is a very simplistic answer) to always be fear/ego based.

spazz