Yeah but....if that's what they want to do, what business of it is anyone else? I mean, it's 2018, if they wanted to be brain surgeons they could be, but that's not what they wanted so it's not what they're doing. They wanted an easy job where they could coast off their looks and they got one ,there isn't anything wrong with that. Some people aren't meant for the office life or retail life. I thought the point of feminism is that women aren't supposed to be shamed for their individual choice, be it working in corporate and wearing a pantsuit or working in retail or working in the 'glamour/show' business and wearing next to nothing...these same feminist argue about women getting shamed for wearing what they want to wear and then turn around and shame women for wearing outfits they choose to wear by nature of their profession.
For every girl doing something like "Grid-girl", there's is a girl trying to become a doctor, lawyer, engineer so I don't get that argument; women have been aspiring for years to be more than housewives and eye-candy secretaries, and have made sure legislation goes through that allows them to reach those goals/dream....at the end of the day though, there are always going to be those girls who rather leverage their looks.
Having images of grid girls sends a false message though. See it like this, people get information and matter induced into them subconsciously, a mere image has effect, whether you are instantly aware of it or not, the constant portrayal of an image will leave an even larger mark in your subconscious which then grows and evolves adaptable in certain situations. The singular picture of having a woman around, stripped of any power or voice or any substance, just standing there half naked to do nothing but look pretty next to men giving interviews before they go and drive cars around tracks earning millions of $$$ is not an encouraging metaphor of a woman, let alone a person period. This certain depiction is prevalent in many different situations and it builds motives, it builds the notion of this is what you do, this is what you are... you have this phenomenon in other contexts as well, such as portrayal of light skin being beautiful by putting it on the forefront and presenting it for beauty product ads, magazines or whatever it is, it happens subtly and it happens subconsciously, it happens without the victims even realizing. Ideally everybody should be mentally firm enough to think on their own, do what they want because they want to do it, but its not like that, lotta households dont raise their children right and then that shyt is passed on, they be what they see and know
And this statement is false: "For every girl doing something like "Grid-girl", there's is a girl trying to become a doctor, lawyer, engineer"
There aint even the profession of a male Grid model, men will never be presented as silent, no action having figures, while women constantly are and that snowballs into subconscious invading, and thats the problem
Not that this shyt fixes that cause this picture is still pressed everywhere, especially with that instagram bs, but its the right thing to do, independent of the fact we won't get to witness the full eradication of this in mainstream media in our livetimes
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