I’ve hosted some biking events with friends/youth groups/family and one thing I make clear is show up with a helmet or don’t show up at all. With the caveat that if you don’t have one, I have extras and will provide one if you need one, and I have bought helmets for people before because they couldn’t afford one.

I don’t care how you feel on your own rides, just wear a proper helmet. Or you don’t ride with me.

As for fashion, my partner and I have matching helmets that match our usual riding gear, and i made them a 3d printed unicorn horn to stick on their helmet that immediately got stuck on and now I have to promise to make a new one for every new helmet they get. Personalize your helmet and who cares if it’s fashionable.

I flipped my bike in 2016 and my helmet saved me twice, once when it hit the asphalt, once when my bike came over and smashed into the top.

Split it almost comically in half.

I kept it on my desk when I worked on bikes. Every single person who bought a bike got interrogated about whether they have a helmet. Every single person got the lecture on helmet safety. If they seemed iffy or unconvinced, I’ll ask them if they want this to be their skull instead. That convinced them every time.

Some people don’t think you need a helmet until you fucking need a hekmet. But then it’s too late.

Congrats o surviving the crash, make sure to replace ASAP! (though I doubt you need a reminder lol)

Suggested Addendum: nonbinary not allowed *so long as the NB currently has a-cup+ breasts and pronounced nipples.

The people who tend to have issues with nips are usually the kind to not care about flat chests, regardless of why that chest is flat (natural flatness or top surgery)

I say free them all. Stop getting hung up on who has boobs, nipples, flat, pronounced, who cares everyone has them and we all know what boobs look like. If you want to go topless, you should be allowed.

Anecdote time!

My spouse and I are both trans, although we bother were in the closet and while I wouldn’t say I’ve ever been “conservative” I have definitely had some weird holdovers from growing up in a religious household.

I used to be very “Nobody else is allowed to see your nipples” in thought although I would never tell them to “cover up” no matter what I thought, as it’s their own body, not mine. Once they settled on NB, I was like “oh yeah then it’s fine… Wait why is it fine now but not yesterday” which was a fun bit of self-reflection lmao

Personally I think it shouldn’t matter and people need to get over the fact that, gasp most people have nipples, and gasp most of them are shaped differently, some more than others.

Free the nips.

How I used to sit as a “completely straight Christian boy”