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Oh no, where on God's green earth will creepy old men be able to ogle scantily clad, attractive, young ladies now?!  A travesty!

 

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Serious Question :

 

WHO DO WE NEED TO TALK TO ... To get all of these girls that were laid off to come work for SCCA/NASA as Spec Miata grid girls??  We can't let these girls fall out of the workforce and create employment gaps in their work history to where they can't find another job.  We would be happy to take them.


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Oh no, where on God's green earth will creepy old men be able to ogle scantily clad, attractive, young ladies now?!  A travesty!

Personally at my maturity I enjoy the usual grocery store/race track lady and visualize. :bigsquaregrin:

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i don't want to group all women drivers into the same bucket, because I'm sure they have a variety of opinions as well ... but every woman driver i know, thinks grid girls are stupid. and if you don't think they are paying attention to these kinds of things, again, you should talk with a few. 

we can choose to keep racing and driving fast "fun" to a dying, ever shrinking and aging demographic. or we can try to keep racing and driving fast fun for everyone. 


lets keep the show to the cars on the track and men and women that design, build, and drive them. pornhub exists for a reason, use that. 


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Walter, your Pick & Save ladies are safe. I prefer the more up-scale Tosa Sendik's store.  

 

"Rebecca Cooper, a five time F1 grid girl, said on Twitter that it is "ridiculous that women who say they are 'fighting for women's rights' are saying what others should and shouldn't do, stopping us from doing a job we love and are proud to do. [It is] political correctness gone mad."


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i don't want to group all women drivers into the same bucket, because I'm sure they have a variety of opinions as well ... but every woman driver i know, thinks grid girls are stupid. and if you don't think they are paying attention to these kinds of things, again, you should talk with a few. 

we can choose to keep racing and driving fast "fun" to a dying, ever shrinking and aging demographic. or we can try to keep racing and driving fast fun for everyone. 


lets keep the show to the cars on the track and men and women that design, build, and drive them. pornhub exists for a reason, use that.

 

Oh come on ... are we going to get rid of NFL Cheerleaders too?  It is literally the same thing.  I am sure the % of women that "don't watch F1 because their are grid girls" is probably very small.  And then I am willing to bet that a high percentage of those women wouldn't watch F1 anyways. Taking away grid girls wont do a damn thing to have more women watch the sport ... they would still have to like the racing aspect of it ...


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sure, cheer-leading in the NFL is stupid. the entire "this is a cool thing, and when we add beautiful women it gets even better!" notion is just ... done. its from a bygone age. women as decoration is dying, and it really should die if we are being honest. 

i don't speak for all women in motorsports. i just know i've talked to some around my age (30), couple of local drivers, used to be local drivers etc ... they get into racing in-spite of the perception of women as decoration, not because of it. we should be encouraging women as drivers, engineers, and participants, not as decoration. 

there are times and places for these things. racing is for racing, and pornhub is there for when you arn't racing. 


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there are times and places for these things. racing is for racing, and pornhub is there for when you arn't racing.

 

What is your go-to search? - "Chivalrous men"?


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What is your go-to search? - "Chivalrous men"?

 

He's got quite a youtube video collection over the years online, 3745 followers, 148 videos.

 

https://www.youtube.com/user/gerglmuff

 

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if you want to know the ins and outs of paintball equipment and how everything works, great channel! I'm confused why anyone would post it here. who gives a shit? 

lol, when the argument comes to personal attacks, you know the other side doesn't have a credible point. 


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there are times and places for these things. racing is for racing, and pornhub is there for when you arn't racing. 

I'm confused... is it "racing time" when you are 1 of 100 plus very average female race car drivers who takes very similar pictures trying to sell their sex appeal or is that time for porn hub?  ;) 


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this this has sparked a lot of talk all over the motorsports web. this came up, seemed relevant. from shea adam:

http://thegearboxgir...grid-girls.html

really, the upside to keeping them is creepy and weird, the downside is maybe more women will be more empowered to actually participate. its pretty simple. 


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this this has sparked a lot of talk all over the motorsports web. this came up, seemed relevant. from shea adam:

http://thegearboxgir...grid-girls.html

really, the upside to keeping them is creepy and weird, the downside is maybe more women will be more empowered to actually participate. its pretty simple. 

 

Empower more women, like their all sitting on the sidelines waiting for this moment to happen, right ? We should see a flood now, right ?

So if it's so simple...what your take on hot weather women on TV ?? Where does it stop ?

 

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Empower more women, like their all sitting on the sidelines waiting for this moment to happen, right ? We should see a flood now, right ?

So if it's so simple...what your take on hot weather women on TV ?? Where does it stop ?

 

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do you really think this is how the world works? 

jesus christ .... 

i'm out. you guys do whatever. the world will move on as it should. 


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I'm just thinking when Patrick "Dr. Dreamy" Dempsey was racing, he had hour long lines of women at the race track ogling him and wanting autographs. I guess the only effective solution is to banish attractive people from the planet. 


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When my wife raced in Spec Miata I'd estimate that about 90% of her male fellow competitors considered her gender a non-issue. Of that 90% a large percent were very encouraging. But then there was the 10% who felt she didn't belong and were not shy in letting their feelings be known. Those 10% are the individuals that stand out in her memory and partially contributed to her decision to stop competing.


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Johnny, ya hit the nail on the head with TV weather ladies. If they didn't have excess undulation they'd be radio weather ladies.

 

Walter, the wife should rid her mind of the 10% and get back to her driving fun.


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Dilly Dilly !!  :)

 

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 Something tells me that they will land on their feet.

That is one option :)

 

I find this whole debate silly...because no matter what industry is the current target...those in favor of eliminating women from a position of objectification are talking out both sides of their mouth. Here you have a young man who is arguing one side of the debate by telling us to view women in and industry which i'm sure there is no exploitation and is as clean as the driven snow when it comes to women?? Can you say irony?

Human nature is what it is...marketers have been selling attraction since day one. If the principles of an industry decide to eliminate some jobs because they have an image to uphold(or they are caving to a very SMALL % of loud mouths)...so be it. But dont argue that this is a step forward for women! Attractive men and women and the attraction between men and women is what keeps the world turning! Lets keep the children safe and let adults choose their own path.


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