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Original poster

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

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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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HamishBamish · 31/01/2018 19:58

Too many feminists are far too keen on trying to dictate to other women what they should think, what they should wear, how they should behave and what work they should do.

This

Maybe they don't want to be changing tyres or monitor on board computers. Maybe were happy doing the jobs they had.

Cherrycokewinning · 31/01/2018 20:00

“I consider myself a feminist, but to me that means being supportive of other women who choose to do work that I might not be entirely comfortable with, and that includes modelling and promotional work. “

These things aren’t true choices. They are activities the patriarchy have deemed women suitable for. You think any woman would truly chose this?

Sharkofdestruction · 31/01/2018 20:00

Never heard of them! Sad that women are still seen as decorations, rather than being F1 drivers though.

LizzieSiddal · 31/01/2018 20:03

I'm glad. It sent out the message that men were there do do important stuff, women were there to look pretty.

Hear hear!

Maybe they don't want to be changing tyres or monitor on board computers. Maybe were happy doing the jobs they had
yeah right. Hmm

IvorHughJarrs · 31/01/2018 20:03

I agree absolutely Bonnie. Women should be allowed their choice in life whether that is wearing revealing clothes and being a grid girl or being modest and wearing a burqa.

Headofthehive55 · 31/01/2018 20:07

What on earth were they for anyway? What did they do? If they were so vital, you'd have them at other events. Henley. Wimbledon. Degree ceremonies. Imagine trying to introduce them as an idea somewhere else. Then you see just what a ridiculous thing they are.

passmethewineplease · 31/01/2018 20:07

Great stuff, about time.

suzy2b · 31/01/2018 20:07

Personally i don't give a shit what they do doesn't bother me one way or the other

BonnieF · 31/01/2018 20:07

Cherry

Yes, I think some people have different views to mine, and that they can make perfectly valid choices that differ from mine, therefore I do think some women freely choose to work in modelling and promotions.

I support their freedom to make those choices.

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Sallystyle · 31/01/2018 20:08

I agree absolutely Bonnie. Women should be allowed their choice in life whether that is wearing revealing clothes and being a grid girl or being modest and wearing a burqa.

But what about the impact that has on society? Yeah, the women may love their job but it does have a massive impact on how women are viewed and treated.

It can only be a step in the right direction.

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HairyToity · 31/01/2018 20:09

Can't say grid girls ever bothered me. I don't think we should judge them. To me feminism is about women being able to make choices.

NotACleverName · 31/01/2018 20:10

People drone on about "choice" but, let's be real, choices are not made in a vacuum free from patriarchal influence.

The most popular sport in the world manages to not use women as decoration, so I am sure that, in time, F1 fans will learn to cope without grid girls.

Cherrycokewinning · 31/01/2018 20:10

Exactly notaclevername

LizzieSiddal · 31/01/2018 20:12

Can't say grid girls ever bothered me. I don't think we should judge them. To me feminism is about women being able to make choices.

Yes, that would be absolutely fine IF women were getting the chance to have the same choices as the men. But they don't do they? They are very rarely involved in F1 UNLESS they are "Grid Girls*

kaz2810 · 31/01/2018 20:18

As long as its legal everyone should have the right to do what job they want. No one is forcing them to do it, they wouldn't do it if they didn't want to. Cannot believe how many judgmental, up themselves people there are. If you don't approve don't do it but that should not give people the right to stop others.

WiseDad · 31/01/2018 20:20

Nearly spat my drink out ready cherrycokewinning's description of the patriarchy allowing only these girls to work as grid girls and nothing else.

How such a disgusting and patronising a view can exist of women in this day I have no idea. Presumably cherrycoke's view is that these women don't have agency and free choice in life. Whereas perhaps, indeed more than likely, they are making different choices from those cherrycoke would make. Well tough on cherrycoke. You can't say "patriarchy stops women doing what they want" and then just replace "patriarchy" with "cherrycoke and her feminist allies". That's no better.

Vicky1990 · 31/01/2018 20:20

Lets get rid of male strippers as well, and bikinis, and hen party's.
Well show them how to have a good time.

Cherrycokewinning · 31/01/2018 20:21

I find these attitudes so weird. Do you think the same about page 3 girls? That teenage girls should have the right to be photographed topless so much older men can leer over them? You think that’s a proper job that people have the right to do? You don’t see how damaging it is to society?

Aeroflotgirl · 31/01/2018 20:22

Aren't they adults who have a choice in what they do, if they choose to do that its up to them surely.

Cherrycokewinning · 31/01/2018 20:22

“Today 20:20 WiseDad

Nearly spat my drink out ready cherrycokewinning's description of the patriarchy allowing only these girls to work as grid girls and nothing else. “

Where did I say they could work as nothing else?

I don’t think a male view is needed on this really.

Aeroflotgirl · 31/01/2018 20:24

I would be upset if I just lost my job, that I probably enjoyed and was helping me pay my bills or way through to uni, it was probably a decent salary, not some low paid job that you had to work like a horse for.

Cherrycokewinning · 31/01/2018 20:24

It’s not a job

lljkk · 31/01/2018 20:25

I can't find an opinion. If anything, my sympathies are with all the women who just lost such a low skill easy relatively well-paid job.

Aeroflotgirl · 31/01/2018 20:25

Well it is to them, they are earning money for it!

Cherrycokewinning · 31/01/2018 20:25

They earn a relatively small amount of money a couple of times a year from being a grid girl. How is that a job?