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The definition of sexist: ".. prejudice or discrimination based on a person's sex. Sexist attitudes may stem from traditional stereotypes of gender roles, and m
by mnicole 14y ago
The definition of sexist:
".. prejudice or discrimination based on a person's sex. Sexist attitudes may stem from traditional stereotypes of gender roles, and may include the belief that a person of one sex is intrinsically superior to a person of the other."
PAX eliminated booth babes for a couple of reasons: they detracted from the primary objective of the event, they made other women actually working at booths look like they were just there for show - causing men to walk past them (prominent female blogger Violet Blue actually managed to publicly humiliate a woman at an app conference because she was doing a 'bad job' at being a "babe") and they did little to sell the product they were there to promote.
As a female attendee for three years before they instated the rule, the ones I saw were always awkwardly walking around or fiddling with controllers to avoid talking to people. It also made me feel that if I ever wanted to get into game development, this is how my company felt best represented all of my hard work.
It's just all-around bad taste to have female centerpieces at a male-heavy event.
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- claudius 14y agoBad taste and inefficient, sure, but sexist? I don’t see any prejudice or discrimination here on the part of the presenter, apart from possibly discriminating men for not considering them as ‘booth boys’. My point is really that it is absolutely trivial to shout ‘sexism/sexist’ every time something isn’t the way people would want it to be and one can possibly create a link to women, but overusing the designation won’t help equalising genders and judging people independently of their X and Y chromosomes – much the same way that claims of ‘racism’ whenever a black person is involved don’t help the cause against racism either.
- mnicole 14y agoMen aren't walking around the event floor because they aren't seen as sex objects. That is sexist in itself. But yes it's also discriminatory towards men for not having the same privilege if you want to view it that way instead (which is still sexism). Wish the other commenter hadn't deleted his post; in it he said that he doesn't like booth babes because they imply that he is dumb enough to be fooled by it, which brings up another great point about the type of people that are in favor of this type of advertising.