The W Series should be a cause for celebration but life is never as simple as that
Sometimes you just have to sit one out. Like this year, when the FA announced it was now using Disney princesses to get girls playing football. Sure, I felt my insides clenching with a buildup of lactic irony, felt the rush of ready sarcastic remarks to my brain. And yes, there was every chance that the campaign was reinforcing the very stereotypes it was trying to overcome. But as addled ideas go, it was not football’s most offensive. Who was I to judge, anyway? I still cried when I watched Brave.
The thought recurred this week, when the creators of the W Series announced their new just-for-women single-seater motor racing competition. It aims to provide a nurturing home for female drivers still struggling to break the glass ceiling and make it to the upper echelons of global motorsport – in particular Formulas 3, 2 and 1. So far so feminist, at least according to the organisers, who have been privately refining their pitch for many months and would like the world to welcome it as a grand narrative of female empowerment.
Written by Emma John
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/oct/14/womens-motor-racing-w-series under the title “Women-only motor racing contest still leaves some petrolheads fuming”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
