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

[DonFerrari]

Teeqoz said:

DonFerrari said:

Sure they didn't had a gun against their heads... but the "brand value" and "societal norms" is pretty indicatives that it wasn't because they wanted to, but because pressure groups were against them and they folded...

And as always in those cases I pray for a very big backlash and loss of profits for they to see that a mouthful minority isn't their market and listening to them will only make they less money.

If this will lead to a massive loss of profit because of huge backlash, this just means that F1 has poor leadership and lacks understanding of their market. And the leadership should be held accountable for that.

But I think that in that case, you should criticize F1 for listening to said minority, not criticizing the minority for voicing their opinion. They're the ones calling the shots after all.

Just like Marvel, DC and Sony have regarding their comics and movies that tried to please vocal minorities and were met with huge losses on those try outs.

Some people on marketing have been working to promote their agenda and ideals instead of the company best interest.

I can criticize whoever I want, even more when said minority will name call people that don't agree with them as misogynists, rappers, bigots, etc. And sure the F1 leads deserve criticism as well. Still people that doesn't even make the market for that product going there to cause ruckus deserve a lot of criticism.

Take your own advise on creating a new F1 championship with grid girls and deliver to those groups for they to create their own without instead of messing around where they have no stakes. Public like or don't care about the grid girls, the girls like the job, the racers and companies were ok with it, so it is a clear case of external meddling.

Scoobes said:

DonFerrari said:

Sure they didn't had a gun against their heads... but the "brand value" and "societal norms" is pretty indicatives that it wasn't because they wanted to, but because pressure groups were against them and they folded...

And as always in those cases I pray for a very big backlash and loss of profits for they to see that a mouthful minority isn't their market and listening to them will only make they less money.

How is it going to make them less money? It's not like the grid girls in F1 were much in the way of eye candy as in other motorsports. The whole dress code in recent years was a lot less revealing/sexualised than in the 90s and they were still making tons money.

Grid girls were only ever a small part of the spectacle and it'll probably save them money not having to pay them by replacing them with free volunteers they get in the kids/mascots.

If part of the public decides to boycott against the change or the girls start mass suiting they could lose money.