What Happened to Women’s Rights?
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Misogyny of Cycling
The women's races are about two to three hours. I personally find myself bored stiff watching the men race. But with the women's race, I want to watch it from beginning to end because they go and they go hard in the international races. Yes, the women can do the distance. Even though the the International Olympic Committee or ICU Union Sea geese international, they think that we can't. There's a lot of misogyny in in cycling like even in 1990, I remember going head to head with Heinrich Reugen about he wanted to implement that when we were menstruating that we couldn't race.
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