Grid Girls... in Voices Windward

I’ve made the mistake of reading commentry on a few articles about “grid girls” being removed from the F1… and I think the funniest thing on the planet is the sheer volume of men and “too edgy for tho” women who are suddenly deeply concerned about the financial survival of hyper-beautiful models without these 5 days worth of income a year.

Trust me, the top models in the world will manage just fine not being sold as objects to get pubecent boys to like cars that go zoom. F1 will still be cool and models will continue to survive capitalism.

Jeez to hear some of the shit people come out with you’d think the jobseekers offices are about to be much more interesting.

Reality setting in here… it’s not a case of telling women what they can and cannot do as people are griping.

It’s about not creating and maintaining roles that encourage sexual predation and objectification of women in arenas that are not about sexual content.

Why does racing need to press the flesh?

I’m sure many women have enjoyed such roles but it’s not about their subjective experiance, it’s about the message it puts across and the society it creates.

The sport is about excellence and skill and they’d rather people focused on women such as Carmen Jordá and Simona de Silvestro… the fact you probably have to google them is the problem we have here.

We live in a culture that see’s women as objects,atleast on a macro social scale and we are simply progressing beyond this.

women who love this kind of work and enjoy the attention will still (and always will) find careers where sexualisation is appropriate, The fact that they have decided to pursue careers that exploit a patriarchial society is neither here nor there and it shouldn’t be maintained just because we’re quite good at getting young girls to internalise that oppression and think that their only value is as a sexual object.

I’m fairly certain they was some young lads in the coal mines and mills who thought ‘by heck I love this job cough cough ol manager gives me money to help me ma *cough cough” … why are some bloody lefties tryna steal ma job.