Booth Babes, Street Clothes, and GDC: Thanks But You sort of Made It Worse

Re:Booth Babes, Street Clothes, and GDC: Thanks But You sort... by saidajigumi on Thursday March 28, 2013 @05:10PM (#5457656)

> I'm not sure I can agree with the idea of dressing more of the booth babes in bikinis

I don't think that was OP's point, per se. It's that the bikini-clad "uniform" tended to provide an automatic distinction between the women hired to staff booths from the women attending the conference. Once that distinction was removed an unfortunate bias and/or numbers game kicked in: attendees started implicitly assuming "woman == hired help."

"Out of the frying pan and into the fire" has never been such a depressing turn of phrase. :-P

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Re:Booth Babes, Street Clothes, and GDC: Thanks But You sort... by skastel on Thursday March 28, 2013 @05:51PM (#5457907)

Might be worth noting that even if a woman is there staffing a booth, that doesn't disqualify them from being technically inclined.

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Re:Booth Babes, Street Clothes, and GDC: Thanks But You sort... by saidajigumi on Thursday March 28, 2013 @06:19PM (#5458042)

I'm quite aware of that, thanks. View that sentence as a verbal experiment whilst trying to generalize around the hornet's nest my mind has accrued around the phrase "booth babes."

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