No More Grid Girls - replaced by Grid Kids

[johnny comelately]

From the BBC- http://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/43661258
Formula 1: Russian GP wants to bring back 'grid girls' for race in September

[johnny comelately]

Glitzy and glamorous Monaco goes against grid girl ban!

http://en.f1i.com/news/299360-glitzy-gl ... l-ban.html

[dans79]

From the BBC- http://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/43661258
Formula 1: Russian GP wants to bring back 'grid girls' for race in September

Given the governments stance on sexuality, it's hardly surprising!

[NathanOlder]

I'm sure someone said something like "get over it, the grid girls are gone and they aren't coming back "

Maybe its more like "just accept it, they are coming back"

[johnny comelately]

LH - The defending four-time world champion had posted a grab from another Instagram user, which had a picture of some grid girls and added “Thank you Jesus”.

The picture-story was in support of the Monaco and Russian Grands Prix indicating they plan to defy Formula One’s decision to use ‘grid kids’ instead of girls this year.
from- https://www.supersport.com/motorsport/a ... Id=4274724

[AngusF1]

About time! One of F1's key appeals is that it presents, in an unusually pure form , idealisations of masculine and feminine humanity which occasionally border on caricature.

For men, the image is of hyper-competent alpha males engaging in a thing-focussed, winner-takes-most competition of physical, technical and political rivalry.

For women, the image is of beauty, youth and physical perfection which then selects the winners.

Further, the relationship between these two ideals over the course of the Grand Prix weekend is an act of theatre representing archetypal truths about human relationships. The men present themselves to the women on the grid who pretend to hold their umbrellas but are really 'inspecting' them to evaluate their quality, the men engage in ruthless competition, then the winners are rewarded with the company and attention of *all* the women on the walk up to the podium. This story is as old as time and F1 remained one of the few acts left presenting this structure in its correct format.

To prohibit one of these images is to illegalise one half of a whole, leaving the other unbalanced and lacking in context, and obliterates the archetypal structure of the Formula 1 Grand Prix theatre.

The ban is very much in line with the "progressive" fad popular among the left in the USA which denies gender differences, ignores or is wilfully blind to foundational human archetypal structures and twists both men and women into poor imitations of men. While the ideology has caught on in the rest of the anglosphere, thankfully the rest of the world isn't so far gone.

[johnny comelately]

About time! One of F1's key appeals is that it presents, in an unusually pure form , idealisations of masculine and feminine humanity which occasionally border on caricature.

For men, the image is of hyper-competent alpha males engaging in a thing-focussed, winner-takes-most competition of physical, technical and political rivalry.

For women, the image is of beauty, youth and physical perfection which then selects the winners.

Further, the relationship between these two ideals over the course of the Grand Prix weekend is an act of theatre representing archetypal truths about human relationships. The men present themselves to the women on the grid who pretend to hold their umbrellas but are really 'inspecting' them to evaluate their quality, the men engage in ruthless competition, then the winners are rewarded with the company and attention of *all* the women on the walk up to the podium. This story is as old as time and F1 remained one of the few acts left presenting this structure in its correct format.

To prohibit one of these images is to illegalise one half of a whole, leaving the other unbalanced and lacking in context, and obliterates the archetypal structure of the Formula 1 Grand Prix theatre.

The ban is very much in line with the "progressive" fad popular among the left in the USA which denies gender differences, ignores or is wilfully blind to foundational human archetypal structures and twists both men and women into poor imitations of men. While the ideology has caught on in the rest of the anglosphere, thankfully the rest of the world isn't so far gone.

Well said, but you've taken out all the romance

[coaster]

Probably impotent business men in their 50's made the call?

[johnny comelately]

Probably impotent business men in their 50's made the call?

That is so funny

[coaster]

Cheers John.

[zac510]

I thought it was the impotent ones that want the grid girls back - they seem to need it the most!

[AJI]

Grid girls replaced by the Halo is all I see...

An FIA mandated lose-lose.
If you don't like it you're a sexist pig, probably some sort of racist paedophile too (or should that be non-paedophile..? it can get confusing...) who doesn't care about the safety of 20 of the most important guys (sorry, people) on the planet.

This one's for Nath.

[NathanOlder]

Cant wait for Monaco. It will be like "the good old days"

Big wide overpowered Cars, glamorous women on the grid, macho men behind the wheels of the beasts trying to kill them.

Sounds like the 1970's. Which if I'm correct are the good old days.

[Big Tea]

Cant wait for Monaco. It will be like "the good old days"

Big wide overpowered Cars, glamorous women on the grid, macho men behind the wheels of the beasts trying to kill them.

Sounds like the 1970's. Which if I'm correct are the good old days.

It can not be the old days, I remember then well

[strad]

AngusF1

Well said AngusF1
Personally I don't understand the people who are dead set against grid girls.
Do they have something against women or are they trying to be politically correct.
I haven't spoken to one women who thinks the girls should go. Well except for that Liberty CEOs wife.
The only scantily clad ones I remember were mostly the U.S. which is what got her nose out of joint.