Watching the
qualifying for the Canadian Grand Prix one is struck by the invasion of
women in all the reporting of sporting events. Football is riddled with
female commentators who fill our screens with "crafted" insights on the
general event. You will understand the term crafted to mean that they
are learnt not from having taken part but from the info that the players
and past players bring to the party. The women who handle the
microphone are there for some other reason.
Glamour has to play a
part in what the media controllers feed us as part of a healthy diet but
when we need to know the technical reasons, or the experience of the
game, a man has to be called to give his opinion.
There are no
women, (other than the drop dead, gorgeous drivers girl-friend), taking
part in the business of driving a GP racing car. The designers the
mechanics, the drivers and management are all men. They are an
interesting and communicative lot so why do we have women in the mix at
all ?
I watched the female Cup Final the other day. It was
school-boy stuff and showed the gulf between the men's game and the
female equivalent and yet at a media level the girls are to the fore
with their pretty faces and long legs speaking a different language.
Feminism speaks for equality but it should always avoid tokenism.
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