Our thanks to Stu for this. Extracts:
A backlash has started after F1 grid girls and darts walk-on women were consigned to history. Former grid girl, model and Presidents Club host Rachel Reid has hit out at ‘well off’ and ‘middle class’ women who she believes are behind the demise of the industry.
She’s taking part in a protest being held this weekend in Birmingham for women who work in motor sport, hospitality, boxing and other promotional industries…
The current controversy started with revelations about a men-only Presidents Club dinner which forced hostesses to dress a certain way and included claims of harassment. Miss Reid was a hostess at the infamous Presidents Club charity dinners for eight years in a row.
She said: ‘I have never seen money like it in my life, the raffle tickets alone would pay off a normal person’s mortgage. It was £100 for five hours work and we could drink if we wanted to, I had some great nights there. And I certainly was not abused or harassed during my time there. ‘What no-one seems to understand is that these events need pretty women to coax the money out these rich men.’ The 39-year-old from Birmingham added: ‘It is amazing what a smile can do from an attractive woman, the money raised for charity was mindblowing and we were proud to be a part of that.’
Justice for Men & Boys 
She says: ‘For so-called feminists to be taking jobs from fellow women is so
wrong, we have had years of men causing women trouble, now it is women
attacking other women’s livelihoods.’
So basically this is just a case of feminists fighting with feminists. Watching the infighting is entertaining in a way, but it seems to me that these ‘Grid girls’ are almost just as sexist against men as the hardcore feminists. Bunch of identity politic loonies.
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Well I think its all about the money. Many women aren’t feminists, in the sense of having some theory. However they are taught (and have been for centuries) to depend on men and “catch” one in particular to rely on. So its no surprise that non feminist women hitch a ride when it suits them and “backlash” the feminists when they interrupt a lucrative income source. Hence both feminists and non feminist women are joined in opposing changes in law and family courts that would reduce their ability to use children as bargaining chips in getting advantageous settlements etc.
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This is akin to the ballyhoo about the suffragettes and universal male suffrage. There is a certain type of middle class busybody who thinks they know best and they have always had a down on the respectable working class, because they are not feckless or stupid.
These young ladies have made a rational career decision to use their assets and they will conserve them. They’ll have other jobs, probably in the beauty and fitness industry, and will use annual leave to take these well paid gigs.
They are businesswomen but in an industry the BBC and Guardianistas despise.
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Hilarious!
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Many non feminist women are happy to ride the tide if it means more money in their purse. The Asda and now Tesco http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business cases illustrate this as have the ones against Councils. Using “equivalents” has proved lucrative for many women who I’m certain would not be in the 8% of women who say they are “feminists”. The equivalence usually discounts the physical danger and discomfort of a job to make it “equivalent” to far less uncomfortable and taxing. One aspect never mentioned is that the physical demands of many roles done by men means that their working lives are shorter and their overall health poorer. One can see this in the rates of unemployment among over 50s and dramatically shorter life expectancy for men in working class boroughs, dramatically different. Unlike women whose life expectancy is only slightly less than their “posher” sisters.
Having got used to self checkouts I think it my duty now to promote them, proving just how dispensable “checkout girls” really are!
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I have hitherto always used the “manned” checkouts, thinking that I was helping perhaps to stem the tide of self-service and automation and thus helping to protect jobs. Not now though, not when sitting on one’s backside flinging items past a scanner is to be paid on a par with driving fork-lift trucks, heaving pallets and boxes of boxes of goods to and fro lorries and on and off racking in an unheated warehouse. Self-service here I come, and the checkout assistants can kiss my Universal Credit (if they qualify) when they get laid off, as they will.
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