>>1527280>>1527288my reply to question on /co/
>modern style bikes (low with chain drive, not high-wheeled death traps) were invented around the time of suffrage when women in the west were getting the first taste of Independence.>bicycles were bought by women in droves because they didn't need no man to escort them places and getting exercise for it's own sake was a new and therefore empowering thing for women then.>so, bikes became one of the more visible symbols of women's liberation.>the first women's pants, for example, were to facilitate cycling since dresses were difficult to cycle in. 