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It's hilarious, and to be honest, I wouldn't be all that surprised if there was a startup tone-deaf enough to actually form around the concept. "Booth babes" a
by douche 9y ago
It's hilarious, and to be honest, I wouldn't be all that surprised if there was a startup tone-deaf enough to actually form around the concept.
"Booth babes" are still a thing, stupid and sleazy as that is.
- mikeash 9y agoI hear that this is totally a real thing in China with white people. Supposedly you can make pretty good money just putting on a suit and going around pretending to be an American business partner at meetings.
- skyrw 9y agoBooth babes will always be a thing. We are all slaves to the god of biomechanics.
- viggity 9y ago"booth babes". what is wrong with women with a sex positive attitude profiting from their hard work? Perhaps the question is: why are there no booth bros. Well, there are, they're just not in a booth. They're standing bare chested in front of Abercrombie tries to get the lady folk through the door. Sexiness is sexiness, it is human nature to be attracted to the physically fit, millions of years have literally hardwired our brains to act a certain way. It is nothing to be ashamed of.
- wcummings 9y agoI don't think there is parity with how frequently men and women are objectified, as you imply. I'm also sure that like most people their job choice is mostly to do with needing to make money, not their personal attitudes about sex. People shouldn't put down women who work as "booth babes". Nothing wrong with it, everyone needs a job, not everyone is drowning in opportunities, but criticizing their presence at tech events is legitimate. I can't imagine being a woman and seeing that in a supposedly professional setting.
- viggity 9y agothat is fair in some ways I suppose, men and women are different, different hormone levels mean we're physically and mentally different. I think you also just see less of objectification of men because, well, women don't objectify men in the same way. Men are more visual, women are more emotional. There are tons of middle age women who read nothing but harlequin "novels" and/or erotica. FFS, look at how many copies of 50 shades of gray sold. Its insane. They don't want to see him they want to feel connected to him. I work in an office filled with all female nurses. You wouldn't imagine the kinds of things they say, things that would get a group of guys saying the same thing in a metric shit ton of problems. I can't even imagine what they say when I'm not around. Long story short, I'm done letting society shame everyone about a completely natural, normal phenomenon.
- wcummings 9y agoNot what I said at all, this has nothing to do with "hormones". Your post is super gross, and leaves little doubt as to why you feel "shamed". If anyone wants to know why there aren't more women in tech they need not look further. Peddle your tired sexist pseudoscience to someone else.
- Retric 9y agoI used to get annoyed at the booth babe idea, but I once saw a guy doing that job in front of Abercrombie, and all I thought was good for him. Because the guy was clearly working his ass off to be in that kind of shape. Then, I finally realized that same effort also applies to women. So, IMO we should respect the kind of effort it takes to be a top tier boot babe.
- Retra 9y agoThe problem wouldn't be with the guy, but with the people who hired him.
- Retric 9y agoI don't think the person doing the hiring needs to be sexist because it's is legal and works. IMO, it's not nearly as annoying as the hyper aggressive mall sales people that tend to mind carts and keep trying to flag people down.
- Retra 9y agoThe 'problem' I'm referring to need not be sexism. Either way, you can't argue that something should be done on the basis that it is legal and works. You can obviously change the laws, and there's lots of stuff that 'works' while externalizing all the damage done.
- vacri 9y agoThe issues around "booth babes" are not about the individual women doing the work.