This is a pretty laughable cause to take on. If dudes like you were as passionate about putting women in cars as you are about parading them next to them we wouldn’t be having this conversation. I think grid girls would be ok if motorsport entities put any effort whatsoever into recruiting female drivers as well.…

I can’t help but raise a critical arched eyebrow at the men plaintively decrying the potential loss of something they can’t quite put a finger on. I’m still waiting to read an argument for keeping grid girls that doesn’t feature a misogynistic bleat of some sort beyond the blinkered “Tradition!” While it is utterly…

My reason for not wanting grid girls is simple: if I want titties, I’ll go to a strip club.if I want a car race, I am going to see cars. My (woefully limited) understanding of modelling is that the model is used to enhance the attributes of a product. A model wears a dress, or a suit, or jewelry, or something, and her…

I think it’s coming at it from the big picture. Is this one practice a significant driver, perpetuating, or a result of behaviors and perceptions that prevent women’s participation in the sport (whether working or spectating) as a whole? To put it another way, are a couple dozen modeling jobs discouraging a hundred…

That’s a baby/bathwater scenario.

Grid girls have never served a purpose other than to act as objectified stimulation. That’s it. We can and should do better as a society.

Why is it stereotypical that girls that choose to model are looked down upon by the very women that should support them? It is a profession, they’re getting paid.

I think so. It’s weird to introduce someone without naming them, not even a nickname.

Women aren’t attracted to motorsports because it’s dominated by men and those men tend to be egotistical sexist assholes to them. You know, men didn’t used to want to be nurses because other men would be just as big of assholes to them and make fun of them for doing ‘womens work’.

Don’t be stupid. Read the comment you’re replying to. You sound an awful lot like part of the problem.

hey dumbass, women have motorcycle clubs too.

You and Kristen bring awesome content to Jalopnik! I think that you two bring some awesome and different perspectives on our hobby. I’m happy that you’re doing what you’re doing, one can only cope with so much of Torchinsky’s whimsy.

YES. Talking to the creator, he definitely didn’t mean it that way, but it’s such a common thing that really does hurt perception. Monster Energy Girls, grid girls. It’s like we’re little playthings.

There are tons of cool car guys, yes. We as women also feel really, really out of place often as well. It’s things as little as when I went to driving school at COTA (“Oh, you work for Jalopnik? Did you do ___ video?” “No.” “Oh, well that girl was hot.” That girl was Kristen, who has black hair and looks nothing like…

While well-intentioned, I think the title itself is a clue. We don’t refer to car guys as “car boys,” so why call women who are into cars “car girls?”

Nope, in the Detroit region there are some people in places of authority that shouldn’t be. I see a lot of the hyper competitive ultra masculine shit too. Don’t get me wrong, there are a bunch of really nice cool people in my region, but it only takes a few bad apples to spoil the bunch.

Shit like this gives me cancer.

You. You are why we have problems.

The problem is absolutely systemic in that the lack of women comes from society’s crushing stigma on what is normal and acceptable for women. It is acceptable for a woman to know nothing about cars, yet that same level of acceptance is not tolerated for men. As a result of generations of ‘barbies for girls’ and…

I mean, Michele Mouton could drive circles around nearly everybody back in the day...there just need to be more like her willing to try out rally, heh.

It’s time for those to go away.