From a "woman's persepctive" . . .

[ny biker]

On the one hand, I get it, and I think this is a great idea.
On the other hand... just what I remember from the last week on this forum
"more attention being paid to women' issues"
http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=47002
"how do I make my bike more girly"
http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=46940
"empowering women to ride"
http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=46964

not to mention the threads about cloth pads and things I wouldn't expect they'd want you to blog about...
I know, on TE we are a community to discuss women's issues and no one is telling us to - but I can see why a bike club might want a women's perspective writer helping them out - just based on the three threads above. I take this repeated "request" as a positive step to help women in your community get into biking, not as condescending, although it's probably both.

Two other issues I can think of -- a local cycling advocacy organization has recently started an effort to get more women cycling, and one problem that was mentioned was women feeling like they're not taken seriously at bike shops. If you have had that experience, it could be worth talking about.

Another issue is safety. Recently a local news blog posted an item about a flasher on one of our rail-trails. We periodically have problems here with flashers and gropers on the trails, and a few years back a woman was beaten while out jogging on a trail, and it would have been worse if her screams had not scared the guy away. The comments on the news blog about this latest incident were appalling -- men who are otherwise reasonable and compassionate people (based on their comments on other topics) were joking about it, and when a female commenter called them out on the inappropriateness of their comments, their response was "oh, come on," like she was just being too sensitive. It was pretty obvious that these guys have no idea about the safety issues we have to consider every day.

[limewave]

I'm in the middle of a big project right now --blech. But skimming through here I see some good stuff. I'm looking forward to reading everyone's points tonight!

I almost exclusively mountain bike anymore. That and I do a lot of riding with the kids. I'll be writing mostly about those topics as well as cycling in general. My blogs name is 29ers and Tagalongs

By the way, I have my other blog (see my signature). If anyone wants me to link to their cycling-related blog in my blog roll, let me know.