I just enjoy reading authors who understand context. There seem to be fewer and fewer of them these days.
I sell wheelchairs for work, and I get incensed whenever people talk about 'differently-abled' people or whatever the politically correct term of the day is. My customers are, first and foremost, people. The whole sale revolves around the disability, but 0% of my relationship with them is about their disability.
I’m one of those American F1 fans that cam me to the sport via Drive to Survive. I was listening to the audio version of Jensen Button’s book today and he mentioned “grid girls”.
WTF, I thought, “are those like booth babes?”
So I looked it up and found this article where Verstappen, Hamilton, Rosberg, and Hulkenberg are bemoaning the potential loss of grid girls and I can’t even imagine the sport WITH them.
It was a reminder of how hard folks fight change, regardless of how much or how little it matters. I’ve been a fan of the sport for 5 years now and am friends with a ton of other F1 fans, and listen to F1 podcasts religiously, and never once has anyone mentioned grid girls, or that they missed them not being a part of the sport.
Thank you for sharing this! Living through the backlash against the decision to do away with grid girls was so infuriating; it seemed like a lot of people firmly believed that having women to objectify before the start of a race was critical to a driver's success. Or that doing away with grid girls was somehow putting women out of work and was therefore anti-feminist. A driver in a different series quoted one of my tweets about the whole affair to sic his followers on me, and within an hour, I had men sending me screenshots of my home address. Because I said it was a good thing that there were no grid girls!
But you're absolutely right: Very few people bring it up anymore. (Fernando Alonso said he missed grid girls in response to a question I asked him last year about what parts of F1 he wished still carried over from his rookie year, but that was... largely it.)
If Sonny had to hook up with someone in the movie, I think it could have been much more interesting if it was his teammate’s mum. Would have challenged expectations, changed the relationship dynamic between teammates and fit right in with the tired refrain of “wow, this guy is so old! Did we mention he is super old?”
Well written!
I just enjoy reading authors who understand context. There seem to be fewer and fewer of them these days.
I sell wheelchairs for work, and I get incensed whenever people talk about 'differently-abled' people or whatever the politically correct term of the day is. My customers are, first and foremost, people. The whole sale revolves around the disability, but 0% of my relationship with them is about their disability.
I’m one of those American F1 fans that cam me to the sport via Drive to Survive. I was listening to the audio version of Jensen Button’s book today and he mentioned “grid girls”.
WTF, I thought, “are those like booth babes?”
So I looked it up and found this article where Verstappen, Hamilton, Rosberg, and Hulkenberg are bemoaning the potential loss of grid girls and I can’t even imagine the sport WITH them.
https://www.essentiallysports.com/f1-grid-girls-must-stay-verstappen/
It was a reminder of how hard folks fight change, regardless of how much or how little it matters. I’ve been a fan of the sport for 5 years now and am friends with a ton of other F1 fans, and listen to F1 podcasts religiously, and never once has anyone mentioned grid girls, or that they missed them not being a part of the sport.
Thank you for sharing this! Living through the backlash against the decision to do away with grid girls was so infuriating; it seemed like a lot of people firmly believed that having women to objectify before the start of a race was critical to a driver's success. Or that doing away with grid girls was somehow putting women out of work and was therefore anti-feminist. A driver in a different series quoted one of my tweets about the whole affair to sic his followers on me, and within an hour, I had men sending me screenshots of my home address. Because I said it was a good thing that there were no grid girls!
But you're absolutely right: Very few people bring it up anymore. (Fernando Alonso said he missed grid girls in response to a question I asked him last year about what parts of F1 he wished still carried over from his rookie year, but that was... largely it.)
If Sonny had to hook up with someone in the movie, I think it could have been much more interesting if it was his teammate’s mum. Would have challenged expectations, changed the relationship dynamic between teammates and fit right in with the tired refrain of “wow, this guy is so old! Did we mention he is super old?”