As if on a seek and destroy mission to rid the sporting world of anything remotely offensive or unjust, radical feminists have taken their latest politically correct swing at the sexist tradition of Tour de France podium girls.
Over 30,0000 disgruntled womens rights campaigners have signed a petition to do away with the “sexist tradition” of two glamorously but modestly dressed women handing bouquets and jerseys to the winners of one of sports most iconic races, capped off with a polite peck on the cheek.
Moroccan protest leader Fatima-Ezzahra Benomar ranted this week in a video recorded in front of the office of Tour organizers ASO: “Women are not prizes, rewards or sexual objects. They are athletes and their place is on the podium as sportspeople and not as rewards.”
In cycling, women certainly aren't prizes or rewards. But Benomars patronizing tone fails to mention that handsome women can in fact be employed to give those out – and be paid handsomely to do so.
Podium girls are no doubt chosen in part due to their looks, however the criteria to be selected is far more than skin deep and includes endurance – working days begin sometimes around 6am – and linguistic ability.
Once selected, girls can earn up to €2,000 ($2,227) for a fortnights work, which includes free food and hotel stay, a pretty good gig if you can get it.
However, Benomar and her PC-mad merry band are aiming to make sure no one can get that gig and instead look to deprive working women of voluntary paid employment.
In other attempts to abolish sexism, the sisters of radical feminism last year vilified glamorous F1 grid girls as playing a counter-productive role in their fight to be free of their patriarchal shackles that inhibit women in the workplace.
Sadly, the saintly sisterhood have no grasp of the irony that they are depriving other women of a job and a voice, the very evil they claim to be working against.
Nevertheless, Formula 1 and the ruling body, the FIA, caved to pressure and outlawed grid girls from every Grand Prix and replacing them with grid kids, veiling their virtue signaling as “an attempt to modernize the sport,” done so by taking women out of employment and swapping them for the children of rich motorsport-mad parents.
To its credit, and contrary to earlier reports, Tour de France bosses have not signaled any such intention, with directorRead More – Source
As if on a seek and destroy mission to rid the sporting world of anything remotely offensive or unjust, radical feminists have taken their latest politically correct swing at the sexist tradition of Tour de France podium girls.
Over 30,0000 disgruntled womens rights campaigners have signed a petition to do away with the “sexist tradition” of two glamorously but modestly dressed women handing bouquets and jerseys to the winners of one of sports most iconic races, capped off with a polite peck on the cheek.
Moroccan protest leader Fatima-Ezzahra Benomar ranted this week in a video recorded in front of the office of Tour organizers ASO: “Women are not prizes, rewards or sexual objects. They are athletes and their place is on the podium as sportspeople and not as rewards.”
In cycling, women certainly aren't prizes or rewards. But Benomars patronizing tone fails to mention that handsome women can in fact be employed to give those out – and be paid handsomely to do so.
Podium girls are no doubt chosen in part due to their looks, however the criteria to be selected is far more than skin deep and includes endurance – working days begin sometimes around 6am – and linguistic ability.
Once selected, girls can earn up to €2,000 ($2,227) for a fortnights work, which includes free food and hotel stay, a pretty good gig if you can get it.
However, Benomar and her PC-mad merry band are aiming to make sure no one can get that gig and instead look to deprive working women of voluntary paid employment.
In other attempts to abolish sexism, the sisters of radical feminism last year vilified glamorous F1 grid girls as playing a counter-productive role in their fight to be free of their patriarchal shackles that inhibit women in the workplace.
Sadly, the saintly sisterhood have no grasp of the irony that they are depriving other women of a job and a voice, the very evil they claim to be working against.
Nevertheless, Formula 1 and the ruling body, the FIA, caved to pressure and outlawed grid girls from every Grand Prix and replacing them with grid kids, veiling their virtue signaling as “an attempt to modernize the sport,” done so by taking women out of employment and swapping them for the children of rich motorsport-mad parents.
To its credit, and contrary to earlier reports, Tour de France bosses have not signaled any such intention, with directorRead More – Source
