Video: XC's Fastest Female Riders Tell You Why They Love MTB

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 Those farmer tans tough! haha I love seeing people in public dressed in street clothes and you can immediately pick out the cyclist in the group!

 my grandma used to say "it takes one to know one".

 @WAKIdesigns: Rob Warner, well known for his sexist comments at world cups saying on a "girls" comercial:

"they way mtb biking isnt a sport for women", who say that?, where? when?...

"they say, is only for young people", showing a 37 and 45 years old riders (i think they are quite young. Old is "old").

"they say, you would look like a guy", as if looks like a guy would be something wrong or bad. Plus they show two of the pretiest blondies of the peloton on a dress at a pool.

"they say it risky, you can brake more than a fingernail", again a very sexist thing about girls.

I could continue with more small details,,, but i spent more time on this that i have.

Go and ride your bike, men, woman, young, old... and support the rider, the person, not the gender.

 Pacual, nobody's going to get it.

"he's the first African American to win the event", said every media outlet everywhere, but they are not racist, right? What a joke.

He's saying you should be blind to age, gender, race, etc but that is not reality and thus this is sexist. He has a valid point; no justification to negative prop him.

 I have to agree, who is “they” we do always hear “they say this” or “they say that” but I always wonder who is “they” because I’ve never hear any of my biking friends disparage female riders......

 @Pascual-Budejas: Why are you taking something obviously meant to be positive and putting this spin on it?

Is it possible to view this for what it is - showing the world that women also rip on mountain bikes! (a sport predominately occupied by men...). Maybe, just maybe, the creators of this video are trying to do exactly what you're saying - supporting riders?

Is it really that offensive to depict women showing their love for the sport?

 @Pascual-Budejas: Well I see your point, but I think it’s not so simple.

« Who says that ? », I’d venture to say that no one even has to say it, as there’s basically not much women riding MTB, it’s so blatant that you don’t have to say it. On a sexist point of view, MTB is a men thing just as laundry is a women thing, driving a truck is a men thing, being a nurse is a women thing. Messing with a derailleur and having grease on your fingers is a men thing (in the collective unconscious I mean, not in my mind).
It takes times for those preconceptions to change, even if some women drive trucks already and men are nurses.

The young point, you’re taking it literally. We all consider Gwin, Minnaar, Gee, as rather « old » for the sport, Pierron, Bruni, Greenland as young guns.

The fingernail point is indeed a sexist cliché, but it’s tongue in cheek as it’s basically obliterated right after as you have a women showing her many scars, which intrinsically mens that women worrying about nails is a cliché. I’d say that for a lot of people not as advanced as you on this question you have to go through this kind of cliché to make them open their mind as it’s so deeply rooted.

The « look like a women » point, I agree I thought it was a bit clumsy as having a slender body in a nice dress shouldn’t define what a women is. You could as well be a women with large shoulders chopping trees.

I think you’re not fair with Rob, I find he’s evolved on that point though, since the whole « feud » with Rachel Atherton (well I guess her times — the last one particularly — just call for respect). Claudio and him often correct themselves to include women. Those are life long automatisms that are slow to change. Ben Cathro did it too (something like « those guys have balls… the women too »), this isn’t even sexism sometimes, just automatisms. Even women probably say you’ve got « to have balls » to do something big. It’s do deeply rooted, it takes time, but it’s moving in the right direction.

I don’t know, overall I find it rather paradoxal how few women ride (in my area) but it’s rather paradoxal as I think the MTB world does rather well in giving media space to women, even if the men’s race is still the big event. It takes time but things are evolving.

I remember I took some slack on my local messageboard for saying a jersey label was sexist as it said « if you don’t know how to wash it, give it to your mom ». Many said « it’s a joke », « it’s fun », « you’re a white knight », again, it’s so deeply rooted they don’t even get it.

Just as how most insults or slurs are homophobic, racist, sexist, discriminating ill people, disabled people, etc…

I'd say consider yourself in advance on this sexism question, than others being small brained

 @Prof: Yeah I know, sorry but it takes time to elaborate on serious subjects. Then you have trump on twitter.

 @Will-narayan: dude...get over it and be stoked for the women in the video. They are expressing themselves in a positive manner that's it.

 @enger: erm... he tried to explain that the video is cool? And it all went over Pascuals head?

 @Will-narayan: I agree with every single sentence you wrote. Btw, my first reaction after seeing this video was "omg how cheesy is this!" But I guess we need to start somewhere And those girls are definitely awesome!

 @Will-narayan: Yes, I think there's plenty of scope for MTBing to take a long look at the language it uses (as opposed to the people who use it), but quite frankly if this video makes one person regardless of gender and age see that riding is a possibility for them, then I'm happier than a dug with two tails... and possibly some balls.

 @WAKIdesigns: lol no you didn’t understand pascals post, tried to call him sexist even though he is the opposite, you dumb troll can’t even make sense of a statement someone makes, have you ever contributed anything useful to this site?

 @mkotowski1: what? So now you have beef with my interpretation of what Pascal wrote and what Will wrote? Maybe you are a sexist?

 @WAKIdesigns: yah that’s the key problem, it’s your interpretation, you wrongly interpreted pascals post.

 @mkotowski1: oh, I will write down your username to remember that you are the one that knows how to interpret things in a right way. I have reread his comment and I still think he says some weird stuff unlike Will Narayan. We should run a poll if you don't mind me questioning your judgement. Let's do it.

I am in the team: "if you think this commercial is sexist or pseudo feminist you should get your head checked"

If he thinks that women don't get those comments that Rob is mentioning, then he should meet more girls and women, and fkng LISTEN to them. Also it does not speak only to what girls are told, but also what they may be thinking. All humans in puberty, including girls have group association issues. Again, learn a thing or two about women before you comment on content for women.

 @WAKIdesigns: you say he said some weird stuff.... and the poll was taken look at his upvotes vs. yours buddy ol troll

 @WAKIdesigns: this guy claims on the internet “he knows women.” Bravo waki bravo, I’m glad you think you know women

 @Pascual-Budejas: Calm down Serena...

 Middle and high schools already do. I was in a high school xc race team last year. Your team will LOSE points if there is not one girl there. Kinda a problem for small towns.

 @Chingus-Dude: @Chingus-Dude: How fascist. Next you will get dinged if you don't have every ethnic group represented as well. JC, let the people who want to ride bikes ride bikes. If gals want to ride bikes great its not my job to encourage them as long as I don't discourage them. In 30 years I have never seen a biker discourage or disparage female (or ethnic group) participation.That kind of mandated quotas really bothers me.

 Broken bones and bruises everywhere isn't enough? They don't have any protection like kneepads, back protectors or fullface helmets and ride very gnarly stuffs

 Do a worldcup XC downhilling section on an XC bike, xc helmet, xc shoes/pedals AND no dropper (lot of xc-girls don't use it)... Then you come back and say us how you are.

 @Fenrisvarg: Chill i didn't say they werent Gnarly, I was just stating it would have been more Gnarlier to see the DH girls injuries. did you see Myriam Nicoles back ? if not check her instagram its horrific!