Feminine fixations, foibles and phobias

This may offend some. I don’t apologise; your offence offends me. Besides, you are wrong, and I am right.

First, international darts, and now Formula One, have dropped the women who add the glamour to their events.

They are the models who accompany the darts players to the rostra, and hold flags or umbrellas on the starting grids. They look glamourous. They look great. They look happy.

So, why have they gone?

Because it is no longer politically correct and in the view of whom, God knows why, these organisations listen to, it is demeaning to women.

FU.

Did you feminazis take the time to ask the women themselves? I know you didn’t, because from what I am reading the women who do/did those jobs, liked those jobs and earned good money doing those jobs.

So, here we have one group of women telling another group of women what they can’t do—all in the name of female empowerment. Could someone please tell me how that works?

And here is where I get really offensive…

It seems that this year feminism is the new black. I thought it was dead and buried. Women had taken it as far as they could and had effectively shattered the glass ceiling. So, why the resumption? Why the interference? Why are feminists taking jobs away from women who want to do the jobs?

Are they bored or, spoiler alert: really offensive, simply envious?

And, while I am on the subject, are we also so bloody bored with life and talking about Donald Trump that we need to raise issues such as this?

The awards season appears to be the catalyst and the vehicle for getting “political”. Last year it was the lack of ethnic minorities nominated for Academy Awards. This year it was the Me-Too movement and sexual harassment in Hollywood.

Setting aside the fact that I don’t give a rat’s a***s about celebrities’ opinions, I question why these occasions have turned from being celebrations (and fashion statements) to political statements.

What is going to be next year’s issue de jour? I am certain there will be one.

Nothing I have written is intended to demean or diminish the core issues, though I do take issue with other people telling other people how they should act and think and work—as is the case with the Darts and Formula One.

No, my issue is with having an issue—or more particularly the manner and vehicle in which the issue is issued.

It shouldn’t be an issue, but it is.

That is my issue.