Ring card girls to be replaced with 'fight progress managers'

[Ruthless-RKO]

Promoters of Saturday night’s Battle of Bendigo boxing show featuring Jeff Horn and Michael Zerafa have replaced ring card women with men, after coming under fire from local councillors and women’s advocate groups.

City of Greater Bendigo councillors Yvonne Wrigglesworth and Jennifer Alden were critical of the between-rounds spectacle.

Wrigglesworth said women were being objectified in events like The Battle of Bendigo, while Councillor Alden, a member of the City of Greater Bendigo’s gender equity working group, believes these stereotypes are harmful women.

“Being respectful of women is key to eliminating other forms of violence, especially violence towards women and children,” Cr Alden told the Bendigo Advertiser.

Event co-promoter Dean Lonergan said he was disappointed with the criticism and had replaced the three women with men.

“To further minimise protests the term ‘ring girl’ will not be used,” he said. “These roles will now be known as ‘fight progress managers’.”

He said the three women would still be paid and their replacements had been found by his co-promoter, Bendigo resident and Australian 1996 Olympic boxing representative Lynden Hosking.

“I am disappointed, but I am also responsive. I will replace the three women who were employed to signal the start of each round with men,” Lonergan said.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/ ... s-managers

[greg]

idiotic, to say the least

[ewenhay]

idiotic, to say the least

Could they not just have given the women different clothes to wear?

[lazboy]

Australia’s going through a very strange period where the loud minority seem to be affecting change, for the worse. For example Football games are no longer scored for under 10s. We are no progressive, it’s delusional.

[Ruthless-RKO]

idiotic, to say the least

Could they not just have given the women different clothes to wear?

Instead they have topless men?

How's that not degrading men then?

[Bard of Boxrec]

I’d like to replace whoever made this decision with someone who makes better decisions.

I’ll never get how ‘women’s advocacy groups’ hope to improve the welfare of women by taking away their jobs

I guess underwear models and strippers are next.

[punchoutsb]

I'm sure the three women (who are at least sill being paid for this event) are very happy that their future part time employment options have been removed. They must feel so empowered and liberated to no longer have these jobs available for them to choose to do anymore going forward.

Great job progressives

[Finkel]

I’d like to replace whoever made this decision with someone who makes better decisions.

I’ll never get how ‘women’s advocacy groups’ hope to improve the welfare of women by taking away their jobs

I guess underwear models and strippers are next.

From what I recall that's the regular job these rings girls had in Oz

Basically women can do what they want with their own bodies, as long as it is approved by a body of women

[dagilechia]

idiotic, to say the least

idiotic = wise in current world.

[dagilechia]

i am sure that those girls are happy now that they have lost a very well paid and easy job and they have felt so discriminated and maltreated

[dagilechia]

idiotic, to say the least

Could they not just have given the women different clothes to wear?

like in Russia a few years ago

[dagilechia]

i hope that those men are gay. if not, that's a huge homophobic scandal.

[ewenhay]

Could they not just have given the women different clothes to wear?

like in Russia a few years ago

Exactly like that yeah

[lazboy]

These women have a voice and a choice ffs. Feminist shouldn’t be speaking for them. It’s a sick controlling culture from these people, they constantly interfere in business that is not their own.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Not like they were being forced to hold up a sign.

Not all just wear bikini tops.

I heard they were gutted the lost their jobs.

[diddy]

The retardation of society continues. Ever wonder why barely any funny comedies have been made in the last 10 yrs? Don’t wonder.

[dagilechia]

''fellings'' are more important now than common sense and truth.

[sturm vogel]

Are these replacements for Gay-only fight cards?

[Boxing Prospect]

A Chinese card a couple of weeks ago had a topless fella... China showing progressiveness!

[Tony1244]

What a bunch of crap !

How is admiring a hot woman being disrespectful? It's the opposite. I respect the hell out of their hotness.

Now, I've noticed the Russian women are a bit more covered, and if they want to go that route, ok.

But no ring card girls is just BS.

[gilgamesh]

When you watch fights from the 1950's and sh*t the ring card girl is a guy in a suit

Things come in waves folks, and Ring Card girls ain't going nowhere in general I don't figure.

Though it's kinda funny that people think these girls are losing a "well paid" job. It's more about exposure for their attempted modeling careers or whatever than it is about the gig itself, but...it's going nowhere all the same.

Male Ring card boys for Women's Boxing matches could be an amusing twist though just for giggles.

[dagilechia]

A Chinese card a couple of weeks ago had a topless fella... China showing progressiveness!

in this world everything is reverse, ''idiotic'' means ''wise'', and ''progressive'' means ''regressive''. all this PC, LGBTQABC+, gender etc BS isn't progressive or modern. a dude in a dress and high heels isn't modern or progressive, for example. feminazis aren't too. they're jus frustrated.

funny when people say '' it's XXI century FFS!!!''. so i prefer to get back the XIX century then.

[dagilechia]

What a bunch of crap !

How is admiring a hot woman being disrespectful? It's the opposite. I respect the hell out of their hotness.

Now, I've noticed the Russian women are a bit more covered, and if they want to go that route, ok.

But no ring card girls is just BS.

Look at the beautiful elegant ring girls at the Lebedev vs Gassiev card

[gilgamesh]

A Chinese card a couple of weeks ago had a topless fella... China showing progressiveness!

in this world everything is reverse, ''idiotic'' means ''wise'', and ''progressive'' means ''regressive''. all this PC, LGBTQABC+, gender etc BS isn't progressive or modern. a dude in a dress and high heels isn't modern or progressive, for example. feminazis aren't too. they're jus frustrated.

funny when people say '' it's XXI century FFS!!!''. so i prefer to get back the XIX century then.

All you gotta do is not go along with the bullsh*t. For instance you'll never hear me say "He's a member of the LGBTQ community"...I'd just say "He's gay"

I'm gonna talk all day when I could say the same goddamn thing in two words

[greg]

..I never insisted the ring girls must wear skimpy bikinis..but replacing them with men? FFS