6rfyoyxihdkhsodh wrote:
With all due respect, this topic is discussing the issue in all races, of all distances, and I don't think you appreciate quite how disruptive a middle ranking male can be in a close women's finish if he is obsessed with beating women and ends up getting in the way. I even had one push me out of the way in the finishing strait when it became very narrow, before the finishing line, when I was racing another woman a few seconds ahead of me, whom I might have otherwise caught. I've had a few men catch my heels in road races too because they insist on running right behind me.
Its a bit amusing how all these men, who have never had it happen to them because they are men, are trying to tell women what it is like to be a woman and have that happen to a woman, and then dismissing women's expressed opinions because it either doesn't agree with their narrative or some other women came along and said it hasn't bothered them.
Imagine if a man came along and said it really bothered him witnessing it. You would be stuck between following the male opinion and disagreeing with some of the women!
It's a competition - no one gets to run in a privileged lane. You seem entitled.
There may well be guys who are obsessed with beating woman, but you come off as obsessed with men who are obsessed with beating women. How do you know what all these hypercompetitive men are thinking? Maybe it's not all about you.
I can imagine that it's frustrating for you that there are people racing next to you that are not elite and (apparently from your other posts) have more foot speed at the end of the race. Did it ever occur to you that many of them are showing you a sign of respect?