Feminists outrage at walk on/Grid girls, F1 & Darts models ban. Your thoughts?

[Teeqoz]

John2290 said:

Teeqoz said:
Do I think it should be banned? No.

But if I had my own Formula 1/Dart tournament, would I hire grid girls/walk-on girls/whatever? No. Just seems tacky and... purposeless.

As far as I can tell, this were decisions made by the organisation itself, which is completely their choice. It even says it was after discussion with broadcasters. Should they be forced to include them? :-|

The decisions were made after backlash and complaints. People high in F1 have even spoke against this and for the pandering not to take place, Women included. 

But if they disagree, and the backlash didn't affect them financially, why would they react? Either this has to be hurting their viewership, or sponsors not wanting to work or broadcasters, or they agree and that's why they're doing it...

They owners have all the bargaining chips... If someone tells me to stop writing on VGC, but they don't give me any reason for why that I agree with, and they don't give me any consequences if I don't listen to them, then I won't give a shit... Same thing with Formula 1. Either it's hurting them financially (in which case a large enough part of their viewerbase or sponsors and collaborators clearly finds it important), or they agree ideologically. What other reason would there be?

If the backlash against their decision to remove Grid girls/walk-in girls hurts viewership more than keeping them, then they can just revert back. Again, it's the owners that have all the power here, unless a law is passed. Which it hasn't.

Feminists my ass. Feminists can't force F1 or some dart tournament to change their policies, unless they have a financial bargaining chip (in which case a large enough amount of people agree, and at that point, you are just listening to fans, not being pushed around by feminists).

It's the owners deciding not to keep this position. No one else can make that decision.

Last edited by Teeqoz - on 14 February 2018