What no podium girls?

So after a hundred or so years, without any voice of dissent or a discussion on the subject, in the blink of an eye podium girls are on the block? I think this requires an explanation. I have my suspicions and I say again there has been no voice of dissent.
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More importantly, someone should perhaps ask the girls involved. Do they have a union of some kind...?
I am not sure. You have no chance.
So it seems, thanks. Typical forum debate of course.
At least 3 that I’m aware of, none of them sad to see them go.
The world has gone mad!
No voice of dissent? The girl pinched on the bottom by Peter Sagan objected. Lots of cyclist look uncomfortable on the podium with them.
I won't be sad if they go and likewise I won't be throwing things at the TV if races carry on using them, I watch cycling for the sporting aspects.
So am I fussed about the principle of women being part of the presentation process at the end of a race, well not really in the grand scheme of things, as long as they are being treated with respect.
but then I think it was one of the races in Holland in the last week or two, I cant find the picture now, and maybe it wasnt that big a race, but it looked like the podium girls were just modelling underwear they had so few clothes on, and then I think hold on no that kind of stuff is not on at all, thats totally wrong imo and that should definitely be the stuff cycling as a sport drops completely.
This is like someone more eloquent read my mind and posted my opinion!
I agree with you here so how about opening up the sport to women instead of closing it down. But that wasn't quite what I was getting at. Where has this come from? While the Sagan incident was disgraceful it was a one off by a young man who is still pulling wheelies. It hardly represents the attitude of cycling as a whole towards women. So again the question where has this come from? Who has put on the pressure to do this and why has there been no lead up to it in the media?
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition
So who's been complaining?
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This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
(Yes, MF, I know)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition
Personally I find the spectacle of the men's event extremely tacky, as amusingly parodied in Belleville Rendezvous. These days it is a parody of itself!
this photo was 2015, but this was at a UCI 1.1 womens race, thats the attitude towards women, cycling as a whole must change as its unacceptable
yes Sagans thing was a one off, yes bikini clad podium girls are fortunately rare, yes all the other stuff in isolation might seem not that serious, but its the accumulation of all these things together and over time, that makes it feel like in cycling women do get objectified and treated appalingly.
I mean transfer the stuff weve seen from Hollywood the #metoo campaign, and the sexual abuse case in sports like gymnastics, and ask yourself do you think pro cycling would pass much scrutiny. Missy Erickson came forward to report the sexual abuse she suffered as a junior, and Petra de Bruin and Marijn de Vries have also confirmed similar experiences, I doubt they are the only cases,, and there are lots of young women riding for teams, some barely out of their teens who are isolated from family and are going to be confronted with this pervasive attitude among predominantly male team staff, that like Sagan its ok to pinch a bum in isolation from time to time.
thats why its wrong, and its 2018 now, we shouldnt need to have to complain or put pressure on anyone to keep telling them that people should just be treating us as equals and with respect.
I think you have convinced me with this argument. The only issue I have heard of in womens in cycling was the Jessica Varnish Shane Sutton thing but despite that and after the Weinstein it does seem better and more responsible to try and avoid these things.