GG Triggerhappy: Formula 1
A few months ago, feminists in Spain tried to forbid women from working as grid girls in the spanish MotoGP, even when the grid girls defended the job. Now, it seems they’ve succeded in their ideological imposition, and the Formula 1 will not have grid girls, due to feminist pressure. This is another of the things that shows how modern feminism have nothing to do with equality or helping women, but instead just uses them for ideological purposes. In this case, they try to force their puritanism into everyone using women as a shield, when those same women are defending the job and calling them out in their bullshit. The common feminist argument of “women are free to do whatever they want with their bodies” is one that i, and probably most of the human population, support; but then you realize that for feminism that only applies for the things they like, but when it comes to working in sexy jobs, or doing erotica, or porn, or prostitution, or surrogate pregnancy, suddenly, for feminism, women shouldn’t be able to choose what to do with their bodies, and instead they have to do what feminists say. Because feminists are the possesors of absolute truth and every other woman is just an alienated idiot…which of course is not sexist at all! 🙂
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And people still say GG is about sexism and harassment, if we are sexists and misogynists shouldn’t we be wanting the Grid Girls out of F1 by saying some nonsense like “Motorsport is for men only”?
Honestly, I’m kind of conflicted on that. On the one hand, there IS a problem with any sense of equality, when there are no female drivers, but plenty of grid girls. I DO see the point about this reinforcing gender stereotypes, though it would probably serve the equality-cause better, if there were more female drivers.
I didn’t know until today that there WERE female drivers in the past (see wikipedia article [1]), but it probably doesn’t help that the last one has been 25 years ago, and only once two in the same season.
Forbidding grid girls against their will seems like a “fight the symptom, ignore the cause” thing. There seems to be a fundamental asymmetry in what men on tend to find attractive in women vs what women tend to find attractive in men that gives rise to a lot of cultural asymmetries. Forbidding the resulting jobs isn’t going to change anything.
This is probably even worse with prostutition. I can perfectly imagine that many prostitutes are unhappy with the job, but there’s SOME reason for them to do it anyway (e.g. dept, lack of other jobs, lock-in due to social stigma, or coercion they are in no position to report). Make/keep it illegal, and they will likely still be doing the same work, but then without the chance to report abuse to legal authorities.
Last I heard of anti-prostitution laws though, I remember them coming from conservatives rather than feminists.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_Formula_One_drivers
Men DO have faster reaction times. Kind of important for racers.
Sources:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-006-8869-6
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0026141 (note how there’s a large group of men with faster reaction times than the fastest women)
“This is probably even worse with prostutition. I can perfectly imagine that many prostitutes are unhappy with the job, but there’s SOME reason for them to do it anyway (e.g. dept, lack of other jobs, lock-in due to social stigma, or coercion they are in no position to report). ”
I would advise you, like many feminists, not to speak on behalf of ‘whores’, since you have no ground to stand on.
If you actually want to get educated about REAL issues in prostitution, than I might recommend reading about it from the ‘whores’ themselves:
https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/resources/frequently-told-lies/
In Spain there was recently another controversial case, in which a group of feminists did a video calling those who hire a prostitute “rapists” and making a lot of untrue statements. Due to that, prostitutes have started to make videos defending prostitution and blasting feminists off the stratosphere because they don’t know shit of what they’re talking about.
How is hiring a prostitute raping? Isn’t that the whole point of hiring them? Someone should really blast these radical feminists all the way to Uranus.
Interesting article… Definitely eye-opening on some aspects. I mean, I was always in favor of legality for the sake of protecting the rights of prostitutes, but I wasn’t aware about how much the discussion is being skewed. Most ironically, as McNeill points out, it actually makes sense to apply the “there’s a reason for them to do it anyway” to a lot of less controvesial jobs too, so I totally ran into that fallacy myself…
There’s also a version of the blog-post published in the Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/03/27/lies-damned-lies-and-sex-work-statistics
I don’t think there’s anyone forbiddin women from participating in formula 1, so i don’t see any issue with that. If there are fewer women it’s a simple matter of choice as with a lot of other jobs. It’s the same as with gaming competitions, you can see very few women on top competitive positions, for the simple reason that there are muche less women than men aiming for competitive top positions. The less pool, the less chances to find the good ones in that pool.
Like it or not, there are differences between men and women both biologically and physically. SJWs and 3rd wave feminists always pretend that they do not exist.