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?

Yet another example of cyclists' aggressive behaviour; if he banged on your car you should be able to report him but of course there is no way of identifying him; normal traffic rules don't seem to apply to cyclists.

Goblinlittleowl The OP cut him up and then swore at him and you think he's aggressive?!?

Both of you sound unreasonable. I bet you couldn't even see him behind you or realise there was a bike there. And no, the cyclist who was a few cars behind the one turning probably couldn't see that he was turning right, all he was aware of was you pulling in to the left in front go him. I also doubt that he initially had time to "suss out" whether you were male or female.

He obviously shouldn't have banged on your car but you put your finger up at him twice and told him to Fuck Off! What age are you - 12?!

Banging on the side of a car is a preservation reflex to say bloody hell I'm here stop squashing me, don't come over any further because you're going to kill me

If a cyclist can bang on the side of a car the car is too close. Its not as if he chased after the OP and banged on the back.

The cyclist has no way of knowing if the motorist knows they're there or not and believe me in that situation you will do anything you can to tell them you're there.

I crossed (walking) behind a car at a junction once and the car rolled back into me - believe me I was banging on that car. Not out of aggression, but just to say put the bloody brakes on now!

YY, if the cyclist had been in his car he'd have sounded his horn. A piddly little bike bell is of very little use when you need to urgently alert a driver to your presence.

What you did was very dangerous! Did you not check your mirrors first? You could have easily injured the cyclist if he was going at speed.

He was wrong to shout at you but he probably had no idea who was in the car and is unlikely to have picked on you because you're a woman.

Yep, should be mirror, signal, manoeuvre. I'm betting only one of those two steps was carried out.

If OP had looked in her mirror she would have seen that from what she has described the cyclist was too close for her to move.

If she'd decided to chance it/go for it on the basis of "cars have the right of way over cyclists" then although she would still have been in the wrong it would have given an observant cyclist more time to slam the brakes on so they weren't so close. But I'm betting the cyclist was already so close that even signalling wouldn't have given them much time to react.

I haven't seen anywhere a suggestion from the OP that she checked in her mirror before executing this manoeuvre, let alone that she indicated. It's legal to undertake if the traffic to your right is queuing. So it seems to me as if OP WBU in giving him the finger, and the appropriate response would have been a simple apology. Not that that excuses him continuing to get aggressive with her.