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> In America, a bicyclist is usually not envisioned as being on par with someone who drives a car. They are stereotyped as either a rich hobbyist in spandex or
by ftxbro 3y ago
> In America, a bicyclist is usually not envisioned as being on par with someone who drives a car. They are stereotyped as either a rich hobbyist in spandex or as drunks who lost their driver’s license and have to rely on a lesser form of transport.
So they acknowledge this but expect it to change somehow?
- mcmcmc 3y agoThat stereotype might exist in some places or in some crowds, but it's far from a universally held belief. And it's definitely not true.
- etrautmann 3y agoYeah this does not ring true anywhere I’ve lived (mostly coastal cities)
- jmclnx 3y agoI live in one of those cities, and yes that is the stereotype, with one addition, Bicycles are only really for kids to ride in parks or on the sidewalk.
- banannaise 3y agoRight, the upper middle class and above tend to categorize anything they don't do as profoundly unserious, and therefore only done by unserious people with whom something is seriously wrong.
- sershe 3y agoI mean, upper middle class are the people who bike, at least in the coastal cities. I've never met anyone who wasn't a tech worker/realtor/doctor/..., or at least a teacher or a PhD student in something abstract, who commuted by bike.