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To ask what you think about 'Grid Girls' no longer being used?

530 replies

Sallystyle · 31/01/2018 19:19

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/42890261

I think it is a great thing.

Some people on my FB clearly don't.

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QuiQuaiQuod · 01/02/2018 11:17

NoOne is forced at knifepoint or gunpoint to parade around in skimpy clothes, thats their choice.

they seem to enjoy it.

so. ban the chippendales and male models in skimpy clothes then. no more Beckam in his tighty whitys, so bloody what if they choose to do that job? no ones forcing them.

QuiQuaiQuod · 01/02/2018 11:19

There's always been, and going to be, women who are so taken by their own looks/bodies that they like to parade around in skimpies being leered at by men. Or posing half naked in photos.
Just look at social media, it's full of young women pouting up at the camera with the camera pointing down their cleavage .

^^ this. and choosing glamour modelling.

Thehairthebod · 01/02/2018 11:21

This whole thing about 'choice' is total bollocks and only works one way. I don't see all these people moaning about women being denied this choice campaigning for girls and women to gain more access to STEM careers for example?

Woollypinksocks · 01/02/2018 11:21

Nobody has banned them or taken away their choices, get real. It's been decided that that role is no longer relevant and it's ceased to exist.

Like plenty of other jobs, things change and evolve.

Thehairthebod · 01/02/2018 11:22

so. ban the chippendales

Sorry, I don't remember the last time I saw a women's sporting event where the Chippendales are strutting around holding up signs?

Redpony1 · 01/02/2018 11:23

I'm annoyed by it!

I love looking at pretty women, i see no harm in it at all and i hope boxing stands firm with keeping the girls.

DreamyMcDreamy · 01/02/2018 11:23

they seem to enjoy it.

See,that's just it,isn't it. Some women enjoy doing jobs like this, they want to do them. It should be about choice. What doesn't sit right with me, what is pretty uncomfortable, is the creeping pervasion of what women should and shouldn't be doing, or thinking.
On here, you get it a lot if you go against the "majority" view.

specialsubject · 01/02/2018 11:25

An easy money job accessible ONLY to those of the right shape and appearance is disappearing. Them's the breaks. I've had a couple of easy money jobs that are no longer there (although mine weren't gained on physical appearance).

It was good while it lasted and I can understand why they took advantage - they decided it was worth being thought a joke for easy cash. Now move on and find more work.

ErictheHalfaBee · 01/02/2018 11:25

I think that the point isn't that the women choose to do this, or enjoy doing this, but that it encourages society to regard young women as objects to be looked at rather than humans with intelligence and opinions. It encourages an attitude that women have value only as decoration. This is not a long term career option for anyone.

theloniousmonk · 01/02/2018 11:25

Great! The next step would be to immediately remove pornography from local shops and also to also pull the plug on the Daily Mail website which is quite frankly ridiculous!

DeleteOrDecay · 01/02/2018 11:26

It's only a 'choice' if you are young, slim, female and good looking.

Those women who might want to be a grid girls or similar, but aren't deemed to be good looking enough have that choice taken away from them. No ones shouting about that, seems like women's choices only matter if you're slim and pleasing to the eye.

RatRolyPoly · 01/02/2018 11:26

That Twitter post made me think about Sea World and the performing orcas etc. I don't know what the current deal is with Sea World but I remember growing up there were all sorts of calls to close Sea World as it was no longer in line with how we viewed animal rights and what was an acceptable way to keep and be entertained by animals.

There was a huge backlash saying these animals could not go back to the wild, and that they enjoyed their "work" in Sea World, and what would happen to them if these nasty animal welfare types got their way?

Like I say, I never followed how that all panned out, but I don't think society has the same taste for performing animals as it used to; circus animals are no more for example, so clearly things changed in the name of progress. I don't think anyone thinks that's a bad thing in retrospect.

To the pp saying women should be able to do whatever job they choose, well yes, but noone gets to demand a job is made just so they can do it. I don't see anyone opening up a coal mine any time soon, just because I have a right to be a miner if I choose.

DreamyMcDreamy · 01/02/2018 11:27

Nobody has banned them or taken away their choices, get real. It's been decided that that role is no longer relevant

Well, there's a contradiction if ever there was one. "Nobody has banned them, get real - it's been decided the role is no longer relevant."
That's just a more dressed up and wordy way of saying "we're banning this job now."

DeleteOrDecay · 01/02/2018 11:28

I love looking at pretty women, i see no harm in it at all and i hope boxing stands firm with keeping the girls.

But surely you don't watch boxing for the women holding number signs. You watch it for the boxing.

There are many many other places you can go to look at 'pretty women'. There's no need for it in sports.

theloniousmonk · 01/02/2018 11:30

Deleteordecay but that isn't very different to ballet, your physicality is of upmost importance. I just think as pp said it is just outdated and thankfully now a thing of the past.

DreamyMcDreamy · 01/02/2018 11:30

Great! The next step would be to immediately remove pornography from local shops and also to also pull the plug on the Daily Mail website which is quite frankly ridiculous!

Oh yay, next in line banning publications and media outlets. Hmm
Censorship at its finest. FFS, listen to yourselves.

JemimaHolm · 01/02/2018 11:31

To the pp saying women should be able to do whatever job they choose, well yes, but noone gets to demand a job is made just so they can do it.

Absolutely this!

Grid girls aren't being banned by feminists. The company who employed them no longer wants to use them. Perhaps they realised that using grid girls was costing them more viewers than they were gaining, or perhaps grid girls no longer fit with their brand image, or maybe something else. But the decision wasn't taken unilaterally by feminists and forced on F1.

Woollypinksocks · 01/02/2018 11:32

Or we could go the other way and legalise prostitution and have a brothel on every high street.

I'm sure there'd be plenty of women who'd choose to do this.

theloniousmonk · 01/02/2018 11:33

Not censorship but hardly a good message for young girls. The Daily Mail website is also outdated with stories basically chosen for men's titillation and the language used is actually quite repressive.
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Woollypinksocks · 01/02/2018 11:34

Exactly jemima they're not banned, they're just no longer needed by a certain company.

Sainsburys are getting rid of a bunch of managers but they're not banning managers.

ErictheHalfaBee · 01/02/2018 11:35

DreamyMcDreamy, things are changing, try to understand the current zeitgeist.

theloniousmonk · 01/02/2018 11:35

Just take a look at their showbiz news if you need convincing. Hmm

JemimaHolm · 01/02/2018 11:36

Yes, woolly. It is a commercial decision, so I suppose we should really be blaming capitalists.

RatRolyPoly · 01/02/2018 11:42

Ah, but it would still be profitable if the feminists hadn't made everyone feel a bit icky about parading women around for no good reason. Capitalists are just chasing the money, it's the feminists who have spoiled everybody's fun!

LadyinCement · 01/02/2018 11:44

Everything is so confused now.

The dolly birds in sport thing is now quite archaic (although I think quite a few of these women are harbouring thoughts of nabbing a rich sportsman) and amusing, really, when you see the girls parading around.

But what about music? I enjoy watching old TOTPs and dh and I often observe that the female stars of 35 years ago are wearing a quite decent amount of clothing. They are not wearing a pair of micro pants and desporting themselves in a sexy fashion. They are getting on with the job. I feel very disappointed now if I look at MTV with teenage dd and see scantily-clad girls writhing over a male singer wearing a coat (eg The Wkend (sp?) etc).