Out of the gym and onto the road - Ideas wanted.

[Terry]

Wow...
Two different threads going all at once; The female athletic personality v the girly persona, and, the rich girl next door v the girl-jock that could care less, but now, it's personal.

To me...
It's all how you see the game; the women here really like the game/the sport/the dirt. The "other women" seems very afraid of the unleashed power emanating from women who are not afraid that they are going to get hurt while playing the game.

Girls are supposed to be delicate and girls are not supposed to get "hurt" like boys...that's why most of the woman in spin will never get on a bike and ride the road/mountain. Education or no education. We are dealing with a belief system. If you intentionally, "illogically" purchase expensive shoes, your persona says, "it's all about me", no matter if it's your dime or someone elses.

A lot of the gym girls scream, "not fair" because female "jocks" aren't playing "the game" they way they think a woman should--hence the aerobic instructor with the tooth damage from her puke sonatas. The belief system, as many of us know too well, is girls are supposed to play nice with the other girls and if you're playing with/on the same field with "the boys", you're a threat to some other woman's security (mental/emotional/physical).

I see this belief system as a stinky cest pool; the keepers of the cest pool are "needy" people. Needy people are closet control freaks. These people appear to perpetuate a persona that we all should live by their rules and pour energy into them/their belief systems. Geez, what a waste.

In essence, they don't play "fair"! They hide behind a belief system and a persona that they are constantly trying to perpetuate as desireable. (Needy is desireable?) Anyone with their eye on the game knows that you don't get what you want or need by sitting around, wasting your time on persona/cest pool belief systems/being needy.

Whew! Did I just spew or what?? Well, I'm gonna let it stand as food for thought...hopefully, most of the women here will rise above the "ilk", the games, the persona and live by what YOU believe being female athletes. Don't snub/snob the needy, just let them be in their own world. (Well...sometimes, I wanna put my hands on my hips and stick my tongue out at them...)

Meanwhile, back at the trails, I'm having a blast! Let'm drink latte and get buzzed!
Terry

(BTW, which one of you ladies said that you've worn a tiara while riding? WOW! Did you find one that fit over your helmet? Hey! Maybe I'll paste some big gawdy rinstones on my helmet
...ummm...playing "girly" of my own terms works for me! Ya' think the guys will mind? Just joking.)