So no more F1 Grid Girls and no scantily clad, fit birds leading the darts chaps out

[Burney]

Yes, Beverley Turner (former F1 presenter) was on the radio yesterday and was asked about the fact that these women are doing these jobs entirely voluntarily, to which she replied "some women don't know when they are being exploited"

Quite incredible.

The hypocrisy is stunning. Not least because Beverley Turner is a former model, ffs! She has traded on her looks to get where she is, but dares to disapprove of other women doing the same. Let's face it, there is absolutely zero chance she'd have got that F1 gig if she'd looked like Clare Balding.

[Burney]

In modelling at least there is something resembling equivalence, in that men on catwalks are highly common, unlike F1 or darts.

In fact, as with porn stars, female models get paid more than the men.

Nothing to do with the male gaze being quite lucrative, though. Oh, no!

[Tony C]

Quite liked the RR...was hoping Stacy Kiebler would be back...shame

[Burney]

I'm assuming the golf bird on Sky, Sarah Stirk, will no longer be presenting or at the very least will change her wardrobe considerably. Perhaps a nice Burkha will suffice.

Well let's ask ourselves about Sky Sports' hiring practices vis-a-vis female presenters, shall we? It's obviously pure coincidence that they all happen to look a certain way, I'm sure.

[Tony C]

Forget the lack of Black managers...where are the women managers?

We should start to reverse troll the feminists imo

[Monty92]

In fact, as with porn stars, female models get paid more than the men.

Nothing to do with the male gaze being quite lucrative, though. Oh, no!

I'm sure they would be willing to take a pay cut to rectify the gender pay gap that discriminates against male models.

[7sisters]

Forget the lack of Black managers...where are the women managers?

We should start to reverse troll the feminists imo

I still struggle listening to the thin, reedy voices of the female football commentator. It just doesn't scan for me. I'm reminded of the many aspiring 8 year olds on Jim'll jinx it, each squawking away, acting out their hopes and dreams of copying the excitable Brian Moore.
And, sadly, all the while, Saville was most probably acting out his brand of encouragement to those, all too naïve young hopefuls from simpler times.

[Peter]

This masquerades as identity politics, but like so much identity politics it is in fact as much about class.

Middle class men and women are dictating to working class women the ways in which they should be allowed to earn money. They are not regarded as having agency or sufficient 'education' to make such decisions for themselves, so their 'betters' are deciding for them.

It is deeply, deeply nasty.

You old class warrior, you. Good on yer, B!

[Burney]

You old class warrior, you. Good on yer, B!

I see no conflict between being a conservative and objecting to the high-handed, 'we know best' snobbery of the bien pensant left, p.

[Luis Anaconda]

I see no conflict between being a conservative and objecting to the high-handed, 'we know best' snobbery of the bien pensant left, p.

While on the whole I agree with you and F1 was fine, but the whole darts thing was very creepy though - particularly when Phil "The Power" Tailor was involved