Grid boys

[N4D13]

I'm curious as to what you guys/gals think about the fact that there were no grid girls in Monaco but grid boys.

To quote Seb: “I’m gutted. If I was into guys, okay, that’d be different, but really, you park your car and stare at the arse of George and Dave. I’m not happy about that. This is Monaco. Grid girls are a tradition and we shouldn’t break with it. Ridiculous.”

http://thejudge13.com/2015/05/26/f1-...-may-2015/#VET

[Tazio]

It's not an issue afaic. Seb, gutted? That is actually very funny to me. I mean were the guys wearing G-strings, speedos or otherwise scantily clothed? I didn't even notice them, but then again I tuned in to watch a race. The peripheral activities are not something I concern myself with.

[Jag_Warrior]

Just more foolishness in the interest of political correctness. Maybe the organizers were afriad that Gloria Steinem would turn her band of feminazi warriors toward Monaco, once they've marched through North Korea.

[kfzmeister]

It's a changing world. Nothing wrong with grid guys, or even a woman driver. I would like to see it. The latter

[rjbetty]

I'm not really fussed, as long as neither is sexualised. I'm still more than ok with grid girls as I see it as more of a professional thing these days (if that's the right word). As long as it's not g strings and all that silly stuff.

As long as whoever holds the board is doing the job and not trying to be all sexy, but rather just presentable in a professional way, it's all fine with me.


Well that's my 2 cents then.

[N4D13]

Fully agree with kfzmeister and rjbetty. Nothing wrong with having grid boys AND grid girls IMHO.

[Mifune]

Right on brother!! Finally a reasonable intelligent viewpoint!
When will those politically correct yoghurt sucking , tofu munching, Guardian reading, homo-munista-nazi , liberal agenda espousing pantywaists realize this isn't 2015!!!FFS!

As a member of one of the most persecuted stratas of society ( middle class, middle age, caucasian male in a developed liberal democracy) I am fighting back!!!
I WANT to stare at scantily clad vacant women out of context dammit!!!
After all its not like there is some kind of magic omnipresent pornography delivery system at my fingertips and I'm sure as hell not going to bother learning the necessary social skills to form a meaningful relationship with an actual woman (I mean, I'm not a fuggin fag or somethin!!!).

My father died for in a war or some shit so I had the right to stare at some bored awkward wench a third of my age.

Jeremy Clarkson for Pope etc. etc. blah blah blah...

[Jag_Warrior]

I'm working on a deal where I get a nickel every time some whiner uses the words "sexism" or "misogyny". Now, while a nickel may not sound like much to you, my plan is to make volume work in my favor. I figure between Game of Thrones allowing a (make believe!) female character to get snuffed or harmed, a race car driver squirting champagne on a model and people beating their (soft) heads against the wall because Susie Wolff hasn't been given a fair shot at Williams, I should have about $400 million within a 12 month period.

It's 2015 and a growing part pf the planet still doesn't have clean water to drink. But for goodness sake, a girl in a skirt standing by a race car is what we need to get all twisted about. Why? Well, because it's 2015, by gawd: the year of whining and faux sensitivity.

[mr_swiss]

In the name of political correctness, grid girls for even starting positions, grid boys for uneven. Or the first half of the field gets girls, the second boys. If you qualify on hard tires you get your choice, if you crash you get a robot, if you you have to change the engine you get the grid boy, but if you only change the gear box it's a girl. OMG, to Jag's point, i'm glad that's the only problem left

[donKey jote]

It's 2015 and a growing part pf the planet still doesn't have clean water to drink. But for goodness sake, a girl in a skirt standing by a race car is what we need to get all twisted about. Why? Well, because it's 2015, by gawd: the year of whining and faux sensitivity.

All fine and well, except -to twist this argument around a bit, presuming you're not pulling a mifune- this thread only came about because some people seem to be getting all twisted about a bloke in a suit standing by a race car, and start whining about foolish political correctness gone mad by gawd it's 2015, who cares ?