VGPolyglot said:
If it didn't widen their market, they wouldn't have done it. |
Chase Carey himself, the boss of Formula 1, has said in an interview that he wanted to keep grid girls and that these girls did their job "with pride" but that there are "important clienteles" who were against them. Translation: Feminists pressured Formula 1 into banning grid girls and the management felt threatened that Formula 1 would be subject to negative press by feminists. So no, it's not about capitalism and "broadening their market" at all. It's about people (feminists) threatening to attack what had already been built: "You either do as we say, or we'll cry Wolf!" They are not trying to widen their market, they are trying to avoid it shrinking due to attacks from outside. You can already see that your explanation is wrong by the massive backlash of the fanbase, both male and female. I've been a hardcore F1 fan for more than 20 years now and on the F1 websites I visit this has caused more backlash than the Halo when that was revealed.
Here's how it really is: The ban of grid girls could potentially shrink the market and fans don't like it. But the management was more scared of a coordinated feminist propaganda move because that would have been even more harmful in their eyes. This is a lose-lose situation for the sport and anyone who is even slightly interested in F1 knows this because there has never been any serious backlash against grid girls in the last 20 years other than the feminist one. A lot of grid girls were extremely happy with their job, proud to represent their country and excited to be near the stars of their favourite sport. There is nothing wrong with pretty women being pretty. And there is nothing good about pressuring a sport into banning a female job just because it goes against your political agenda. Keep the politics away from sports!, is my opinion.
