Political Correctness Gone Mad Again

Alex_6n2 · 31 Jan 2018 at 15:39

What actually happens to someone when they're offended?

MikeTheNative · 31 Jan 2018 at 15:49

I can't believe how triggered some people are over the removal of the walk on and grid girls.

Jean-F · 31 Jan 2018 at 16:00

stockhausen said:
'Grid girls' will no longer be used by Formula 1 from the start of the 2018 World Championship season.

Sean Bratches, managing director of commercial operations, said the change would be made "so as to be more in tune with our vision for this great sport. While the practice of employing grid girls has been a staple of Formula 1 grands prix for decades, we feel this custom does not resonate with our brand values and clearly is at odds with modern day societal norms, We don't believe the practice is appropriate or relevant to Formula 1 and its fans, old and new, across the world."

Well I guess I’m safe, I’d rather seek out re-runs of Z Cars
than watch cars going round in circles, or worse still, darts.

sideways14a · 31 Jan 2018 at 16:10

Street said:
In my experience, women never seem to have as many expensive hobbies as men!

Quite possibly the most incorrect post i have ever read on the interwebs

DAIR · 31 Jan 2018 at 16:13

So how far can you see all of this PC stuff going?

ttaskmaster · 31 Jan 2018 at 16:19

DAIR said:
So how far can you see all of this PC stuff going?

Depends when the new consoles come out, no?

Nah, I expect lots of violence will ensue at some point.

MikeTheNative · 31 Jan 2018 at 16:25

DAIR said:
So how far can you see all of this PC stuff going?

'How were you negatively affect by the rise of PC culture?'

'My wages were decreased'
'I couldn't get a job in the police force because of quotas'
'I was hounded online after making a joke'
'No moar pretty girls on darts'

Tombstone · 31 Jan 2018 at 16:25

Got to be cheerleaders at football and american football next I'd imagine, possibly the ring girls at boxing too. Then maybe the "booth girls" at gaming/cosplay conventions

Street · 31 Jan 2018 at 16:27

Tombstone said:
possibly the ring girls at boxing too.

Eddie Hearn said no chance to that today.

solado · 31 Jan 2018 at 16:42

DAIR said:
So how far can you see all of this PC stuff going?

It's already causing violence in America mostly. Antifa as a prime example, PC culture gone mad.

Caracus2k · 31 Jan 2018 at 16:42

MikeTheNative said:
I can't believe how triggered some people are over the removal of the walk on and grid girls.

Don't you think its maybe an issue that pressure from outside of a sport, from people who have no interest in said sport about whether clothed women can sell their services as models accompanying the sports players is maybe part of a wider issue? I am sure it's not a big issue for you but it's the principle at stake here

MikeTheNative · 31 Jan 2018 at 16:43

Street said:
Eddie Hearn said no chance to that today.

Boxing promotes itself as a very macho sport so I don't seeing them caving in to pressure like this.

DAIR · 31 Jan 2018 at 16:50

The end of strip clubs.....

Caracus2k · 31 Jan 2018 at 17:15

DAIR said:
The end of strip clubs.....

Unlikely for now... they are not particularly susceptible to external pressure like the darts and F1 are from advertising and broadcasters.

Hades · 31 Jan 2018 at 17:20

Women fight the perceived patriarchy. Women make themselves unemployed. Foot. Themselves. Shot. The. In.

ttaskmaster · 31 Jan 2018 at 17:39

Hades said:
Women fight the perceived patriarchy. Women make themselves unemployed. Foot. Themselves. Shot. The. In.

I'd not be surprised to find it's a few senior exec men, whose publishing companies own all the womens magazines, that are instigating all this outrage in the first place!!

G-MAN2004 · 31 Jan 2018 at 17:42

It seems the only way to achieve the feminist utopia is to remove a woman's individual choice... Nonsense as always.

ltron · 31 Jan 2018 at 17:55

More authoritarian nonsense again, this country is a free one as long as you're not hurting others and you obey the law. My problem with it all is it's a slippery slope. Will they seek to ban all modeling over time as it's demeaning to women? It's all becoming rather puritanical and heavy handed.

RDM · 31 Jan 2018 at 18:08

Caracus2k said:
Don't you think its maybe an issue that pressure from outside of a sport, from people who have no interest in said sport about whether clothed women can sell their services as models accompanying the sports players is maybe part of a wider issue? I am sure it's not a big issue for you but it's the principle at stake here

Surely this is just freedom of speech at work? After all no legislation is being made to change things, just pressure being brought to bear by advertisers, pressure groups etc. It isnt like grid girls are integral to the sport and it is unlikely that their loss will mean people turn off from watching.

Werewolf · 31 Jan 2018 at 18:10

ltron said:
More authoritarian nonsense again, this country is a free one as long as you're not hurting others and you obey the law. My problem with it all is it's a slippery slope. Will they seek to ban all modeling over time as it's demeaning to women? It's all becoming rather puritanical and heavy handed.

What ban?

As far as I can see no one has banned these organisations from having pretty women looking like decorations at the events.

they appear to have made business decisions to do so, pretty much the same reason they originally started using them (originally they were employed because it helped draw an audience, or made it look more glamorous as opposed to being a bunch of usually overweight men in a smokey bar in what was often quite a boring sport, at least for darts)...