Feminists Pressure F1 to Get Rid of Grid Girls. Unsuprisingly, Grid Girls Don't Appreciate Losing Their Jobs
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Source – Formula 1 grid girls have been told to leave motor sports, but they’re making one last stand on social media.
Just a few days after the Professional Darts Corporation banned its walk-on girls, Formula 1 followed the same path by banning the use of promo models, commonly called grid girls, commencing with the start of the 2018 FIA Formula 1 World Championship season.
The role of grid girls is to conduct promotional tasks on behalf of blue chip sponsors. They wear clothing bearing the name of the sponsor, interact with the crowd, and carry driver name boards on the grid.
In a short statement on the Formula 1 website on Wednesday, commercial operations director Sean Bratches said the custom of using grid girls “does not resonate with [the] brand values [of F1] and clearly is at odds with modern day societal norms.” …
Now, the women who have been left out of work as a result are fighting back on social media.
Rebecca Cooper, a five time F1 grid girl, said on Twitter that it is “ridiculous that women who say they are ‘fighting for women’s rights’ are saying what others should and shouldn’t do, stopping us from doing a job we love and are proud to do. [It is] political correctness gone mad.”
If this doesn’t encapsulate the great societal fight of our times, I don’t know what does. Here it is, in microcosm. SJWs who are so triggered at the sight of attractive women in a predominantly male world that they’d rather see them get fired than support them. Because it’s somehow an affront to the sensibilities that these women are pretty. So they’d rather see them lose their livelihoods instead of celebrating the fact they are using their looks to make good money off a bunch of mega-corporations like motorsports and their sponsors. It’s bananas. It’s the Upside Down, with feminists as Demogorgons.
In a world with actual, very real pro-women causes feminists should be taking up, with creepshows like Harvey Weinstein, the crew over at NFL Network and most of Washington making a system where you’re expected to watch them jerk off just to get ahead in the working world, these lunatics are getting their sisters fired for the crime of being super good looking. Because the whole feminist movement still can’t decide what it’s about. Should adult females in the freest country in the world have the right to make their own decisions or don’t they? Are they in charge of their bodies or is someone else? Or is this something much simpler? The War on Attractiveness. Which is exactly what I think is going on here.
It’s starting with these grid girls and the walk-on girls at darts tournaments. Next they’ll be coming for ring card girls, ice girls at hockey games, cheerleaders, NBA dance teams, you name it. Anywhere beautiful grown women make a living off their looks. One of my best friend’s daughter works at a Tilted Kilt in Arizona and he loves it because she’s raking in tons of money from rich middle aged men delusional enough to think she’s flirting with them. That’s the kind of empowerment we should all support, instead of letting a tiny handful of bitter wretches tell these women what they can and cannot do.
Or as Hannah Louise put it in that Tweet better than I ever have, “there are too many people being offended on behalf of people who aren’t offended at all.” That is my kind of feminism. #ImWithHer