Which brings us back to…
Courtesy to:
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This gets a boo from me.
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As a famous person once said: “why so serious?”
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I would say I’m in the “Awesome” box. Tried to enter the “Even Better” but the wife hated it. Hopefully won’t get to “Yay” any time soon.
I’ve managed to make it to ‘Yay, Awesome!’ 
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There need to be another box. My wife rides, and now my two daughters ride with us. Best domestiques i could ask for.
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Think of it as a one-man heckle from the audience, that’s all.
Using misogyny as the foundation for a light joke without context isn’t my taste, and I don’t think it’s welcoming to the forum community.
Throw this one on SNL where you can see the man is a blithering idiot who doesn’t understand decisions so the jokes on him, then sure, it’s a joke. I see the set up, assumption, and shatter. Don’t know what the punchline would be, I’m not a writer.
Otherwise, the joke and following reply come across as “Its the woman’s fault but it’s just a joke, so lighten up.”
Just a little boo from stage right.
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Agree. Sexism in jest is still sexism. Friends don’t let friends be sexist
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Interesting. Woman here who didn’t read it as sexist at all. Could easily swap the man and woman with the same results. My reading was more like start riding → get more bikes → find partner who rides → start a family → no more riding
Luckily husband and I stopped at even better so we’re all set 
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I’m female and from my perspective there is an uncomfortable thread of misogyny in the often used trope that the wife Is a frequent impediment to cycling the way the man wants to do. Mostly I just shrug and ignore it knowing that calling it out will only bring hostility.
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Have had that conversation with my partner plenty of times, ‘what do you want to do?’ If we have kids that means a lot of the financial and lifestyle freedom we have right now would shift towards family and child priorities… At present she’s doing a PhD, has a body building coach who makes her training and nutrition plan and we are going to Spain in a few months for a vacation. Its not that it necessarily means if we had kids she could never do any of those things but would likely mean not all at once or not right now. I think the joke is more that the man in the photos is oblivious to or surprised by the compromise and responsibility shifts that come with a relationship and children. I would say this obliviousness is not that uncommon, I’ve been told by many middle aged men since I was a teen to ‘never get married, if you wanna do what you wanna do’.
Pretty off topic for this thread but as others have mentioned I think you could also reverse the man and woman in this and see the woman similarly need to make some sacrifices/lifestyle changes once a partner or children are in the picture.
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You could reverse it, true. But it wasn’t. It was the same lazy trope.
Frankly, though, if it was reversed it wouldn’t be portrayed as a joke.
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I’m hanging on at the “hang on” stage at the moment 
There has been talk of a dog though 
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We moved onto the WTAF stage with 2 kids, 2 dogs, 9 bikes…
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(Not mine)
Anyway, I’m a fellow girl dad and I’m looking forward to taking them out on my 2-person tandem at some point. But I’m a while out as my oldest is still a toddler.
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Sneaks up faster than you think. I was at a race a couple years ago, and was chatting with a fella in the parking lot. He was competing on a tandem with his 12 yo daughter. I’ve been hoping to come across a cheap tandem ever since!
My 11 yo has expressed interest in a gravel bike. I have hopes she’ll want to join me at a race or two.
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That thing must have a turn radius of a school bus
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Other people in my office: that looks like a lot of water damage
Me: that looks like it’d be a sweet fan setup for a pain cave
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