Feminists? Any here?

[shootingstar]

Actually smurf, it wouldn't be surprising that there are still not alot of black women or women of East Indian descent that cycle regularily. Do you see alot of them in women's or girls' cycling competitions or in regular cycling groups?

It's not that our group here would wilfully exclude these women (or be racist), but our socialization patterns probably affect how to influence, how to make our sport TRULY widespread to all segments of society. And that starts opening our eyes really wide..on who and how others are mentored in cycling. We just forget or don't ...notice.

And I was cycling and involved in the cycling advocacy scene with women in Toronto for 5 years where there is a huge black population. Hmmm, I think we had less than 2-3 black women attend our cycling rides, conferences (200 women attended per conference) and workshops.

Probably a broader range of different outreach efforts needs to be done.

I'm just trying to relate feminism...still to cycling.