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It's tricky for corporates to host an uptempo afterparty. "Booth babes" demoing products are OK during the day, but if you dim the lights, perceptions change.
by caminante 11y ago
It's tricky for corporates to host an uptempo afterparty.
"Booth babes" demoing products are OK during the day, but if you dim the lights, perceptions change.
- robin_reala 11y agoThey’re not OK. Why are they OK?
- caminante 11y agoGDC -- the conference -- is NOT a Microsoft event. During the day, many exhibitors have "booth babes" running around exhibits and demo'ing games. [1] Were you not aware of that? [1] http://icanwritefunny.blogspot.com/2012/03/gdc-2012-booth-babes.html http://icanwritefunny.blogspot.com/2012/03/gdc-2012-booth-ba...
- tptacek 11y ago"Booth babes" used to be a staple at every conference. Over the last 10 years, they've become sharply disfavored, because staffing your trade show booth with scantily-clad women with no connection to your company is a fucking creepy thing to do. People still do it, but by this time 5 years from now, everyone who does will be a pariah, trading on shock value. Those people/companies will always exist. Their existence isn't evidence that what they're doing is OK.
- caminante 11y agoOh, I wholeheartedly agree that they have "creepy" elements. That said, this sub-thread is more nuanced. This article wasn't written because of "booth babes" offending someone at a conference that Microsoft helped sponsor.