I’m a huge fan of Hamilton but JPM once said something about how Ham sometimes takes certain criticisms too hard. The problem here is a lot of people who may have been legitimately offended have accepted LH’s apology. At this point it is just Ham haters who don’t like anything he does, and will take an chance to hate…

No, I’m just being trollish to try to get an elaborate response on how you see the matter. From your response I see you mix things up, gender neutral is one thing play dress up is another thing.

No, you tell her to have fun and maybe one day when she’s older you can help her along the path to thinking for herself by telling her about how advertisers, toy companies and child clothiers pushed and eventually helped define gender roles that were previously nonexistent* in order to sell more stuff.

My 6 year old niece plays with RC cars, drives her JK power wheels, loves pink, likes Barbies, loves Lego.

My 5 year old daughter has never played with dolls and loves cars. She does all sorts of car things with me like going to cars and coffee, track days, and weekend drives in my GT3.

I’m not obligated to tolerate intolerance just because I’m a liberal.

You shouldn’t be allowed to have children.

“I’m so sad right now look at my nephew”

I can’t tell you how excited I get when I get to an image twice.

How about we let cart racing prodigies hold the numbers? Grid boys and girls. Actual boys and girls in racing overalls. You pay them with the privilege of standing. Everyone who need grid girls, the team can supply their own to cheer up their boss and workers.

You’re right, we’re not consistently hearing from key women in the sport, on this topic. Serious question; will Jalopnik reach out to the likes of Claire Williams [et al] and help jumpstart the conversation, with more women, regarding grid girls?

I can’t understand why they think grid girls are such an integral part of Formula 1. That’s ridiculous! If they stop having grid girls tomorrow there would be a brief mention of it for a few days and then people would move on and forget about it. I don’t watch racing because I’m so eager to see how the grid girls…

FIFY

I find it odd that an European sport doesn’t take the most popular Sport in the World as a reference just call the local Junior racing organization for volunteers and dress them with team uniforms, they will be more than blown away with that opportunity

Easy, just have half boys and half girls on the grid. The job is a ultimately just a modeling position, so just hire an equal number of both genders. Put the guys in full on suits or something so they look super sharp and put the girls in classy dresses.

Why not add Grid Guys? I’m sure there are some women that would like to watch some Thunder from Down Under.

Right on, Stef.

BLASPHEMY!!!!! Don’t you EVER mention banning $kay.

Racing teams should all adopt mascots who do cartwheels and silly dances, just like sports teams do. Just hopefully, not racist ones, like sports teams do.

I would be interested in hearing from Claire and some of the other ladies of F1/motorsport about this. Have you reached out to them? (I know this is easier said than done, but it could make a great article.)