tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8492685525705691186.post5741819785570254613..comments2024-03-27T11:44:15.723-04:00Comments on The Retrogrouch: Token Attractive WomanBrookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12110998345857993287noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8492685525705691186.post-15990747570403313302017-09-12T18:35:08.812-04:002017-09-12T18:35:08.812-04:00I love cycling. I became a cycling enthusiast as ...I love cycling. I became a cycling enthusiast as a teenage boy. As a middle-aged woman, seeing the "Token Attractive Woman" thing makes me wonder whether I might've been turned on to cycling had I been a girl or young woman.Justine Valinottihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10852069587181432102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8492685525705691186.post-67243345282456138222017-09-10T11:49:54.949-04:002017-09-10T11:49:54.949-04:00It's really rather shitty of the editor to thr...It's really rather shitty of the editor to throw their sub under the bus like that; at the end of the day the content is the editor's responsibility, and they should check it all before it goes to press - after all, that's why they get paid the medium-sized bucks. IME sarky and ironic placeholder captions are not uncommon at the layout stage - it's one way of dealing with the tedium of subbing - but the downside is that when something gets missed it can be rather more offensive than 'insert caption here'. From my experience of subs it's as likely to have been an ironic comment on gender bias and representation as a sexist dig; I appreciate that from Noel's point of view it doesn't make much difference, mind.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01518954013413810262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8492685525705691186.post-8247377617771386532017-09-08T16:42:24.668-04:002017-09-08T16:42:24.668-04:00I have this feeling of "Cycling weekly" ...I have this feeling of "Cycling weekly" becoming a pasquinale for those english hooligans of cycling, so that doesn't surprises me at all from themacidrums4https://www.blogger.com/profile/16089496036312294382noreply@blogger.com