No more grid girls.

TallPaul1878 · 31 Jan 2018 at 18:04

billysielu said:
Well done feminists, you managed to get a load more guys to hate you.

They've got a load more women to hate them too.

Any women that might be involved in the beauty or modelling industry will now be worrying if they are next.

Boxing is surely next with the ring girls being dispensed with. Perhaps they'll have a little drone fly about the ring or a mascot in a bumble bee suit.

Randomface74 · 31 Jan 2018 at 18:05

TallPaul1878 said:
They've got a load more women to hate them too.

True, how sexist of me, I apologise.

PinkFloyd · 31 Jan 2018 at 18:06

Concrete said:
It was a completely harmless practice that added some character to what is otherwise a very technical and charmless sport.

I'll continue to watch it, but then I'm not the younger generation that F1 is so utterly failing to engage with.

My thoughts on this are the same, it was traditional and utterly harmless. Can't say I've ever seen anyone complain about them. F1 has far more pressing issues than grid girls to worry about!

Hotwired · 31 Jan 2018 at 18:17

Huh, haven't seen anyone defending the loss of jobs in the usual rigged interviews.

mrgubby · 31 Jan 2018 at 18:18

So they've made F1 99.999% male, that's really helped gender equality

Randomface74 · 31 Jan 2018 at 18:20

mrgubby said:
So they've made F1 99.999% male, that's really helped gender equality

Tomorrow's news - F1 fires half the male drivers and hires women instead.

TallPaul1878 · 31 Jan 2018 at 18:21

billysielu said:
True, how sexist of me, I apologise.

Never apologise, it's an admission of guilt

Hotwired · 31 Jan 2018 at 18:22

mrgubby said:
So they've made F1 99.999% male, that's really helped gender equality

Needs a bit of sexual discrimination to allocate roles to females in the technical roles. I'm sure the teams will be lining up to kick guys out in favour of women when they see the logic and benefits.

TallPaul1878 · 31 Jan 2018 at 18:26

Hotwired said:
Needs a bit of sexual discrimination to allocate roles to females in the technical roles. I'm sure the teams will be lining up to kick guys out in favour of women when they see the logic and benefits.

And therein lies the truth about "equality". It's not really about getting more women into these roles. It's just about removing men, usually white men.

Nasher · 31 Jan 2018 at 18:27

I bet the feminists never asked them what they thought about it.

The only thing they have achieved it putting other women out of work, this is well paid work too.

d_brennen · 31 Jan 2018 at 18:29

billysielu said:
Tomorrow's news - F1 fires half the male drivers and hires women instead.

Actually, 50/50 teams would probably make F1 more interesting to watch. Or at least a little less yawnsome

insideline · 31 Jan 2018 at 18:31

Nasher said:
I bet the feminists never asked them what they thought about it.

The only thing they have achieved it putting other women out of work, this is well paid work too.

Yes im sure the streets will now be full of homeless unemployed sports models.

They will get another gig very easily, its one event a year out of hundreds that they do... these people aren't short of job opportunities.

Nimzicki · 31 Jan 2018 at 18:32

I'm mixed on this, on the one hand the women were doing that job by choice but there is something entirely archaic about the dozens of women lining up the walls to clap the 'all conquering men' on the way up to the podium. The problem for me lies in the grassroots of F1 (and engineering as a whole I suppose), it's such a male dominated environment that many women will be put off even trying to prove themselves in that world - if changes like this help more women feel comfortable about getting involved in the sport on merit then I'm all for it.

TallPaul1878 · 31 Jan 2018 at 18:33

Nasher said:
I bet the feminists never asked them what they thought about it.

The only thing they have achieved it putting other women out of work, this is well paid work too.

Feminists are communists. They don't care about that, they assume that these women are grossly overpaid for what they "produce". For the moment, with this still being a capitalist economy, they are just intent on taking a wrecking ball to everything.

TallPaul1878 · 31 Jan 2018 at 18:34

insideline said:
Yes im sure the streets will now be full of homeless unemployed sports models.

They will get another gig very easily, its one event a year out of hundreds that they do... these people aren't short of job opportunities.

So that makes it okay?
You're implying that feminists will not be gunning for other modelling jobs. Boxing's ring girls, cheerleaders, drinks promoters, booth babes.

timmeh · 31 Jan 2018 at 18:40

What makes you so sure that it's about feminism and not about the owners trying to make it less of a male dominated sport?

ttaskmaster said:
You mean you would dare assume the gender with which the individual he/she/it identifies...??!!

Crap, I didn't run my post through the PC filter! :eek:

Nasher · 31 Jan 2018 at 18:42

insideline said:
Yes im sure the streets will now be full of homeless unemployed sports models.

They will get another gig very easily, its one event a year out of hundreds that they do... these people aren't short of job opportunities.

Yea except all those roles are vanishing, the Darts girls went last week.

These models can get £1000s a showing at these big events.

insideline · 31 Jan 2018 at 18:46

Nasher said:
Yea except all those roles are vanishing, the Darts girls went last week.

Except they’re not really are they. I’ve been to numerous exhibits this year around the world for technology products as part of my work... hot birds wearing nothing everywhere you turn.

They aren’t going out of work anytime soon.

timmeh · 31 Jan 2018 at 18:57

Marvin said:
Agreed 100%. You should see the comments after the BBC article .

Ha! There are some absolute gems!

If you don't like the grid girls, don't watch F1. Simple.

Perfectly sound logic

The_Abyss · 31 Jan 2018 at 19:09

The reason they’ve given is that it isn’t consistent with their brand values. I wonder how they define those - they’ve never talked about them before and don’t publish them on their website.