• AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml
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      Usually only mediocre men are afraid, because now there’s more competition and they have to try. The study I always think back to is the one that shows that low skill players are often the most likely to hurl sexist insults at women in lobbies.

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      Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women. -Mary Wollstonecraft

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    I just want to see cars go fast in a circle. Not sure why the driver matters.

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      sounds like you’ve not struggled with representation before, when representation is universal then it won’t matter anymore.

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        I believe you misunderstood my point, by all means celebrate having representation in Motorsports. I was talking about the comments treating that as somehow ruining Motorsports. For me as a person very well represented all over the place it doesnt hurt me to see a woman drive a car, but for the little girls in the world that dream of a racing career it could be the difference in pursuing it or just giving up due to social pressures.

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          I think you ought to change your language to make your point more clear if you actually believe as you do.

          “I just care about x, not sure why the race/gender/??? matters” is a common statement meant to diminish those who seek representation.

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            This is a comment under a meme disparaging those who think that way, to assume I’m agreeing with the comments in the picture is disingenuous at best.

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    She literally wins a test of skill and fitness.

    tHiS iS wOKe Bs1!!1!

    I’m going to chalk this right up there with the women who graduated Ranger school, went to the moon, sailed around the world, and are so much better at driving safely every day, they get lower insurance rates.

    At this point being a misogynist says more about them than about the women.

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      She literally wins a test of skill and fitness.

      They (plural) because it’s a team of three drivers per endurance race. These days usually Michelle Gatting, Rahel Frey, and Sarah Bovy. Doriane Pin is pursuing open wheel formula racing (still with Iron Dames which is a sister team to Prema) but she doesn’t seem to jive with that. I hope she comes back to WEC next season. Fingers crossed it’ll be in a bright pink Lamborghini SC63 or Porsche 963 with Proton but it’s unlikely now that she signed with Mercedes.

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        Oh sorry, I should have found a better way to say it. I wanted to gender it on purpose to make the point. They wouldn’t complain if that sentence started with “He”.