Grid Girls at Formula One Events. Not on my radar. Not my sport, don't watch it. Even as a motorsport follower of sorts, F1 never really interested me. But now F1 has announced Grid Girls are to be abolished to fit in with current day standards.
Odd.
Grid Girls = Bad
Sex Workers = Valid Career Choice
That's how its stacking. It's a little bit weird in the logic department on a number of levels.
The current day feminism says women must not have that job.
Grid girls, can't say I know many but its not actually a jet setting life of glamorous full time work.
Its a fast short term well paid part time job.
One thing is for sure, the action has taken away the freedom to make the free decision to apply for work in one scene. Their choice now reduced.
As the Daily Wire pointedly remarked
"Hey, in the pursuit of True Feminist Equality, some women are just going to have to lose the careers they love. Or something."
Kinda unsure where this new era of Feminism is going, but its not entirely empowering to women.
I'm more learning towards the old view from conservatives in that Equal Opportunity is the only way forward.
The Left is more Equal Outcomes.
Difference in these approaches is the conservatives are saying all should have the same equal opportunities in this unfair world. Work hard and get somewhere. Maybe you won't be rich as Bill Gates no matter what you do, but work hard and find your place in the world.
The Left seems a little more intent on breaking progress, splitting what people own and delivering folk straight to the outcomes. This has risen in prominence as more of the world has become 1st world and more of the world has become lazy. When people complain about foreigners taking their jobs, they're usually the jobs no locals want to do. The foreigners want to work, recognise that you get ahead through hard work. Sure enough, foreigners do well and lazy locals feel contempt for them.
If someone wants to stand around in the hot sun on asphalt holding a pose or a sign or just smiling whilst their back aches, their feet are sore or maybe even suffering from head aches & period pain...for a good bit of pay, well bad luck. That extra bit of income is gone.
The straight to equal outcome leftist approach also means we have to have 50:50 Men/Women ration on high ranking company boards, government cabinets & senior executive ranks whether there is enough women or not. Straight to equal outcome.
Equal opportunity means good people rise to the top in their chosen field irrespective of their gender.
Oddly meanwhile the Quota Approach only applies to high ranking, high profile, high paying white collar careers. The new Twisted Left & the new Twisted Feminism isn't pushing for 50:50 rates in the world of truck driving, sheep carting, shearing, slaughterhouse work, plumbers, sparkies or farm labourers. Only the big bucks, only the things that might result in a press conference.
I know lady truck drivers, stock workers, shearers, sparkies and labourers. All the ones I know got where they are by hard work. None are actually there on quotas. None are their because the boss wanted a "pretty little slip of a thing" on the workplace. They rolled up their sleeves and worked.
Feminism of old knocked down the barriers for these younger women and allowed them the Equality of Opportunity many ladies in earlier days were flatly denied.
Somehow feminism dropped the ball whilst many women just got on with the job of getting along, getting ahead by working hard.
In the board & cabinet scene, its leftists pushing for equality of outcomes which is not the same thing.
It will damage things for some women as claims of Quota Queens will get trotted out. The unfairness there will be hard workers will get unfairly & wrongly tarnished as queue jumpers.
Meanwhile, the Left & the New Feminism has flatly told some women where they CANNOT work and what they CANNOT wear. The State has spoken.
Oddly prostitution is fine, but grid girls and cheer leaders are sex based exploitation.
We have some way to go yet I think & Political Correctness is not correct nor going away for sometime yet
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