Our thanks to Nick for this on the BBC. The caption under the picture (above):
60% of respondents to a BBC Sport vote in December said ‘grid girls’ should be part of Formula 1
The start of the piece:
‘Grid girls’ will no longer be used by Formula 1 from the start of the 2018 World Championship season, organisers have announced.
Sean Bratches, managing director of commercial operations, said the change would be made “so as to be more in tune with our vision for this great sport”.
F1 managing director of motorsports Ross Brawn told BBC Radio 5 live in December that the use of female promotional models was “under review”.
The new F1 season begins on 25 March.
“While the practice of employing grid girls has been a staple of Formula 1 grands prix for decades, we feel this custom does not resonate with our brand values and clearly is at odds with modern day societal norms,” Bratches added. [J4MB: What a wanker.]
“We don’t believe the practice is appropriate or relevant to Formula 1 and its fans, old and new, across the world.”
Stuart Pringle, managing director of British circuit Silverstone, said: “We wholeheartedly support the decision by F1 to drop the use of grid girls – it is an outdated practice that no longer has a place in sport.” [J4MB: Another wanker, lots of them about.]
Justice for Men & Boys 
But feminism is about opportunities for women! (Unless they’re attractive to men, in which case they’re gender traitors with internalised misogyny)
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You can comment on this story in the Sun. Come the libertarian/conservative revolution, I hope Messrs Pringle and Brawn are first in line for the 100,000 sackings Sean Gabb (ex-Director of the Libertarian Alliance) thinks will be necessary.
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‘ … 100,000 sackings … ‘
You’ve omitted a zero and misspelt shootings.
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‘Grid girls’ will no longer be used by Formula 1 … ‘
Forcing them to find other ways of being the focus of attention while having an opportunity to snaffle a champion racing driver.
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Surely by not employing Grid Girls they will have 100% men!! – terrible, terrible sex discrimination.
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What next?
Are the feminists going to stop all the fake tango tanned, fake eye lashed, fake nailed,
scantily clad, binge drinking bimbos out in every town and city across the country at weekends
as these bimbos are ‘demeaning’ themselves?
The binge drinking bimbos puking up on every high street across the land every Saturday night
are an example of ‘modern day societal norms.’
The grid girls look a vast improvement on ‘modern day societal norms’!
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Apparently the practice is “At odds with modern day societal norms” Or to put it more plainly “We’re afraid of feminists.”
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