Reply to post: Re: re: why should we give a toss?

I was once one of you, F1 star Lewis Hamilton tells delighted IT bods

imanidiot Silver badge

Re: re: why should we give a toss?

The reason for it being girls is simple economics. The viewers are by far predominantly straight males most attracted to pretty women. So putting attractive women around the car is more likely to keep get/keep them watching. Sexist, yeah probably a little bit, but that's the way it's been for all of humanity. I don't get the push to suddenly pretend we males aren't simple creatures when it comes to what we like seeing. Just having some women stand around looking attractive isn't exactly going to do much to harm egality of women.

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