I feel like every time you guys want to make a think piece about the way f1 is being perceived and treated by the higher up, it's very easy to get really mysoginistic with it and go the usual let's let leclerc fans catch strays because the way their driver happens to look like must give the image of them not knowing about the sport and that's why guys don't respect us because charles leclerc and his legion of girls :( and bla bla bla. but first of all you're not that different from a mysoginistic annoying piece of shit if your mind goes there, and second of all, it's very much deeper and complex than that, the audience has been ignoring the technical aspects of this sport way too much, that's unfortunately true, men, women, max fans, lewis fans, lando fans, everyone with a blue check on twitter ignores the whole formula on formula one to either 1-prop their driver 2-put down a driver they don't like 3-cope 4- AI has been fucking everyone's brain up. It wouldn't be a crazy assumption to make as much as Stefano Domenicali seems to be on a mission to ragebait us all. The state of f1 spaces IS A MESS, you get either podcasters who check with the audience what's the current narrative going around and copy paste that completely ignoring what happened during the race. You got fans of every single driver thinking their driver could win in a haas. You can get someone's car getting an actual mechanical malfunction in a race and everyone with a platform and a mic will be saying the next day "So that driver is just struggling mentally right? 🫤". Ffs even the commentators are more busy showing their bias and ignorant assumptions during the race than informing about WHAT IS HAPPENING during it.So if you are someone without context, perceiving that. The assumption that the audience it's behaving a certain way wouldn't't be as far fetched as you wish it was. As much as you're not part of that audience, and I'm not part of that audience. It's a fact that there is a predominant audience that it's growing and it's exactly the one that old hag describes. If you don't want to fall into that. Then learn!! be better than that! when you come up with an opinion or talk about a result or situation that happened during the weekend think to yourself "am i sounding like the average viewer this man seems to perceive this sport lately has". but please!! please use your brain for a little more thinking than a simplistic basic defense against your average mysoginistic dude bro take by being equally mysoginistic as them. It's a cycle that never ends. and things are more complicated than just that