To think this man only approached me because I was a lone female

[BlondKadie]

Was driving earlier and the car infront of me pulled over to the right to turn and I then slighty moved to the left to get around him. It was easily done to move around him.
A male cyclist who was behind me then started screaming "what are you doing stop"
Like he couldn't see from the start that the car was turning what did he think I was going to do stay and wait? It was a large road and wasn't a squeeze and the cyclist was behind me so I had right of way!
Anyway so he then bangs on the back left side of my car and I put my finger up to him.
Then there are traffic lights ahead, I watch him out of my window and he is coming up but it looks like he's trying to suss out if I'm with anyone
He then comes up to my window banging on my window asking me why I put my finger up at him and I did it again and told him to fuck off and that if I wasn't female he wouldn't of approached me
He then rode off swearing.

I'm not a feminist or anything so don't get me wrong but I feel this way a lot about male drivers. I notice when I drive my boyfriends tinted Audi nobody drives up my arse or try's to shout at me but in my little KA which known to be a girls car males are constantly trying to bully me with tailgating/flashing ect

Anyone else have this issue?

RaskolnikovsGarret
Off topic but cool username - are you familiar with the work of the popular beat combo Magazine by any chance?
"I'd have been Raskolnikov but mother nature ripped me off"

Sometimes if things keep happening to you a lot it's time to start thinking about the words 'common denominator' in the same way this thread has made me think the word 'gobshite'.
You seem to get in a lot of scrapes...I wonder why?

Wasonthelist, who is as welcome on a completely public internet forum as anyone parent or not, wasn't being threatening, stop being disingenuous or deliberately obtuse. His context was very clear.

Dh looks like Gru. The dcs have commented several times on the similarity.

One of my DH's exes told him he looked like John Cusack. I can see where she was coming from but, no, he doesn't...or he would if John Cusack was a foot taller and 3 stone heavier.

wow so you could have killed the cyclist, and you don't believe women and men should have equal rights
YABU

My dh looks like the lovechild of Craig Doyle and Simon Cowell without the bog brush style hair

Well my DH looks like Neville Longbottom . Everyone is frightened of him! And Op, if you are still there ( and I imagine you are despite your promises to leave) you may not have been unreasonable to pull over to the left, who can tell, but the finger was defo unreasonable.

Which Neville Longbottom. It's VERY important.

Agree with mrsterrypratchet if its the Neville on the right I'd have him naked more often than you could say " expelliarmus clothing!"

My OH thinks he looks like Thierry Henri.

What do you call a bored footballer?

Thierry Ennui.

Boom boom.

Or va boom boom?

I mean va va boom boom

Mine looks like Dave Grohl... swoon shame he's such a moody git!

One point that I don't think has been addressed yet - "cyclists don't have insurance". My DH does. It's perfectly common to have insurance for your bike. DH's covers theft & accidental damage to both his bike & another person's property should he be at fault. He only got the insurance after a van driver cut across the bike lane with no warning to try & park on the pavement causing DH to slide across his bonnet. The van driver took full responsibility but DH had to get a new bike. Unsurprisingly, I take a fairly dim view of anyone doing anything that may endanger a cyclist, even if the cyclist is technically in the wrong.

I'm just going to go back to designing a new logo for MN where the "By parents, for parents" features more prominently, since apparently the lack of gender discrimination isn't clear enough with the current one.

Mine looks a bit like Malcolm McIntyre. He's not quiteas much of a stuck up twat though.

as a female cyclist , i beleive i have to deal with more bad behaviour from male and female drivers.

I'm NC with my siblings so they'd probably side with op's brothers so I'm fucked aren't I?

I have no words for you OP, oh actually I do - vapid. Also, You were very unreasonable and quite lucky you didn't kill him.

On a side note, I've been told my DP looks like Robbie Williams.

Oh and my sis would be shit in a fight, but she does work for the ambulance service so she could patch us all up afterwards. Great with an Elastoplast, my sis.

CatThiefKeith Do you mean Michael McIntyre? I've never heard of Malcolm McIntyre.

I read that as Robin Williams initially, Scarlet, and was desperately hoping for you that it wasn't as Mrs Doubtfire.

But, thankfully, I now see that is not the case

My DH looks more like the young Neville... or at least he did at the same age. Sadly, he's not quite matured in the same way.

Jeffreymummyiscross