I am glad to hear you've grown. Personal evolution is a wonderful thing! But it is not cool to participate in the erasure of your own harmful history. You have to confront it, sit with the discomfort, and carry it forward with you—not claim you've been seeking equality for years. https://twitter.com/JustinTalksF1/status/1275465614904094721

Here's the thing: these mindsets are insidious globally, but it especially sucks in motorsport. I am very confident in myself, my body, and my presentation—telling me I'm a slut doesn't bother me. I have been called much worse!

But these mindsets, when given ground in which to grow, result in behaviors a lot worse. An Unnamed IMSA Champion QT'd me once to tell me I was a silly little girl, and his followers found my address, sent me photos of my apartment, and told me they would find me and rape me.

My knowledge of motorsport has been questioned consistently because I am a female-presenting cis woman who, yes, likes to flaunt the booty the good lord gave her. I have been consistently made to feel stupid, unworthy, and ashamed. For things I know!

I've been physically assaulted at race tracks more than once! I stopped going to races by myself because I couldn't even show up in a rain poncho and six layers without some dude and his pals cornering me in a grandstand.

And, like, part of the conversation I quoted goes on to claim that I'm a 5/10 at best and that these dudes in the conversation wouldn't fuck me. Which is... not what I watch fast cars for! I just like cars!!!

I left my FSAE team in college because I could not exist in that space without being pursued. I left my job because I was tired of being called a stupid cunt because someone couldn't read the study I provided as a basis for my opinion.

So, yes, people with historically sexist mindsets are going to get called out by me. Especially if you claim you have never been sexist. You might be cool now, but this mindset has perpetually excluded me and many others from something they love, and that is bullshit.