Quote Originally Posted by Eden View Post
I think the big difference is that even if people do stereotype some drivers, no one takes a look at a bad driver in an SUV and then turns around and says, SUV's shouldn't be allowed on the road and means it seriously -
Of course not, because SUV's don't cause accidents, people do. I would bet money that if the person driving that SUV was different from the person making the observation, they WOULD say something like "old people shouldn't be allowed to drive" or "young people shouldn't be allowed to drive" or whatever...

Again, people don't generalize about their own class unless for some reason they hate their own class or they are making a joke.

I think the answer to the bike hatred is to get more people on bikes. Then people will be more likely to blame the specific cyclist who IS to blame and not assign it to an entire form of transportation (that they likely know nothing about).


And Knott - I was directing my commentary about people stereotyping car drivers just like they do bike riders at the general audience. Not at you. I didn't mean to imply that you stereotyped in your original post.