Disclaimer: I'm alright. My limbs are intact; no major injury happened. Just had a few scratches, bruises, and an ankle sprain. But I've recovered mostly.

In any sport, injuries are a part of the deal. People fall, break, rest, mend, and eventually get back. I've been strength training for some time and I have an Achille's knee. One bad deadlift and I have to foam-roll for days to get back on track. But the injury while strength training happens due to my bad form- an intrinsic cause? Biking is different because the causes of injury are often not intrinsic, but extrinsic.

I took a fall because a pedestrian couldn't hear me honk/bell at him from a distance. The road sloped down for a while, only to slope up considerably right after. My Strava was running and I wanted to use my momentum to climb up the slope. I didn't have much control over the bike when I finally realized that the pedestrian wouldn't budge. So I braked and sub-consciously turned left to save myself from an approaching vehicle on the right. I brushed against the pedestrian's arm and fell on the left side.

The injury came up in a conversation later and I was (jokingly) asked "soo if you were driving a car, would you have just hit the pedestrian because your Strava was running and you didn't want to lose the momentum, and a car was approaching from the opposite side?" It's a valid question. But the conversation took a weird turn later.
5 points for guessing.
The good old Women-can't-drive-for-shit was thrown at me.

I looked it up later, women are safer drivers than men. Heck, I usually hit the brake from 100 m away. I find it believable. I think it's a mismatch situation. Women can't drive because men control the roads. I wouldn't say that roads are built for men (they are built for motorists). Any vehicle other than a car/truck/bus is basically a trespasser. Us trespassers often fight with each other for ROW (or space). In this battle, women are at a disadvantage. Most other people on the road are men who judge your mettle by your ability to "handle it". Perhaps women take a "prevent it" approach to drive, while men take a "handle it" approach.

I was expected to "handle it" with very little reaction time and a tightly packed combination of situations. I couldn't. I may be a bad rider but maybe the roads should be used in such a way that a tightly packed combination of situations doesn't occur. Maybe the "prevent it" approach impedes the formation of "tightly packed systems" that lead to accidents. I think we should try creating a women-only road and see how it functions. Is it as tightly packed as roads in our cities? Or is everyone braking from 100 m away and thwarting everyone's mobility?