this is adorable. love it!
it's so cool to see people who otherwise wouldn't have cycled saying that it's "liberating" and that they're doing it every day.
2010-02-04 21:24:58
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Women as "Indicator Species" for bicycle use
GIRLS TRY BIKES, DISCOVER NEW FREEDOM
-> According to a Dec. 1st L.A. StreetsBlog entry, "The question of how to get more women on bikes has received quite a lot of attention recently, in part because of a recent article in Scientific American that suggested women are an 'indicator species' for bike-friendly communities."
"A group of people in Darlington, United Kingdom, decided to approach the problem of getting women on bikes by getting girls on bikes. The result is Beauty and the Bike, a multifaceted project -- a book, a documentary, and perhaps most excitingly, a bike-share program. Watch the short version of the film. It's so wonderful to see how the girls move from skepticism about cycling to exhilaration about how 'liberating' it is..."
Source: http://tinyurl.com/yhrlxlb
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2010-02-04 21:11:12
That's a really cool project.
2010-02-05 03:23:14
Liberating. The same way that the safety bicycle liberated women a century ago. Suffrage, woman's rights and feminism rode into the 20th century on two wheels. Too bad we seem to have forgotten something in the meantime.
"I think [the bicycle] has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. The moment she takes her seat she knows she can't get into harm unless she gets off her bicycle, and away she goes, the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood."
Susan B. Anthony, 1896
2010-02-05 21:29:40