Dr. Elizabeth Comen
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So you see a lot of these suffragists on the big bikes.
Well, now this shows you the integration and influence of medicine and society and culture.
There was a debate
in the medical community, including in some of the biggest medical journals.
Bicycle, yes or no.
Could women ride this?
Is this going to be safe for them?
Their uterus might fall out and what could happen to them?
It could affect their fertility, but you could have bicycle face.
It didn't exist.
But what they claimed was that your face would be frozen in a grimace.
You would become ugly from the exertion and you would develop bulky muscles and be disgusting and unattractive.
So these ads came out in newspapers about the fear of getting bicycle face.
But you know what the worst thing that would happen to you?
You were going to masturbate on that bike.
Oh, my God.
So all of us who are into, you know,
Peloton.
And I mean, I've got, this must be why I'm into Peloton.
Nope, nope, nope.