On the live blog at lunch: “Sexist” bike hire scheme tells users that they’re “riding” Maeve and Mary An expensive bag of crisps: Cyclist’s bike stolen inside Tesco Plus: Timmy Mallett versus dead ends, London Edinburgh London update + more cycling
– which offers rentals in Dublin and Co. Westmeath, as well as in London – were named after women, with the scheme’s app informing the user that they were ‘riding’ Mary or Maeve, and for what cost.
While our American cousins tend to use ‘ride’ to refer to getting a lift somewhere, in Irish slang… how should I put this… ‘ride’ more often than not refers to sexual activities. Moby then initially responded to her complaint by suggesting that the use of women’s names for all of the scheme’s bikes was “empowering” – a reply which Dr Eivers, rather charitably, deemed “ignorant” and “sexist”.
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