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“Bicycle Face”: an 1800s health problem to scare women from biking

“Bicycle face”: a 19th-century health problem made up to scare women away from biking – Vox
A truly terrifying medical condition.

In the 1890s, bicycles were seen as an instrument of feminism – so the powers that be “discovered” a health condition called Bicycle Face, to get women to stay put.

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