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Lets make it really, really simple. 1. Do not hire eye candy as eye candy. Of either sex. Dressed up or dressed down. 2. Product promotion staff should be cle
by JulianMorrison 14y ago
Lets make it really, really simple.
1. Do not hire eye candy as eye candy. Of either sex. Dressed up or dressed down.
2. Product promotion staff should be clearly labeled as such.
- blhack 14y agoGood luck with that first one. This isn't tech, this is every business since the beginning of business.
- rada 14y agoThey said the same thing about flight attendants.
- theorique 14y agoYeah, and now look at them - all middle aged hags and gay dudes. At least first class seems to skew toward the younger and hotter (but still competent). (Especially in Asian and Middle Eastern airlines where they haven't gone all PC yet.)
- JulianMorrison 14y agoBecause what you really need on an aircraft, is someone to leer at, who has been instructed to smile and be nice even when you're a sexist pig. Those were the days, huh?
- theorique 14y agoNot making it right or wrong. But mens' nature being what it is, we can expect that most (straight) men would rather have a flight attendant who's more female / younger / attractive and less male / older / unattractive.
- Tichy 14y agoBecause it totally doesn't matter if the person trying to sell you something is good looking or not.
- Macsenour 14y agoI completely disagree. I'm not happy with the situation, but it is what it is. I hired a very pretty, and smart, lady to promote my board game at a small convention. The crowd was HUGE when she was doing her job, and missing when I had a less attractive female friend doing the same thing.
- dyno12345 14y agoRecalibrate your sarcasm detector
- stcredzero 14y agoYours is fine, without a doubt.
- Macsenour 14y agoAgreed, I'm overdue for my 50,000 mile check up.
- jiggy2011 14y ago> and missing when I had a less attractive female friend doing the same thing. Ouch! Let's hope she doesn't read HN!
- Macsenour 14y agoShe doesn't but she knows she's not a booth babe model. And also knows that I'm not either.
- redthrowaway 14y ago>1. Do not hire eye candy as eye candy. Of either sex. Dressed up or dressed down. Eye candy is extremely effective in marketing. That's like saying "don't hire smart programmers". Why would companies handicap their marketing efforts?
- calibraxis 14y agoSure, that's why you retaliate against such advertisers. Boycotts, public campaigns, etc. Through such efforts, corporations have become noticeably less overt about using people of color and women as inferior objects for the amusement of the dominating classes.
- jiggy2011 14y agoI'm not sure how such a boycott would even work, insist that all advertising uses ugly women?
- calibraxis 14y agoNo need for body-shaming terms like "ugly women". In any case, the US civil rights, feminist and leftist movements have all sorts of successful case studies, if you are seriously interested in helping pursue this.
- jiggy2011 14y agoWell, you could say "women with body types that men are more likely to pay attention to" or as they are commonly known "models". Trying to get people to deprogram their own biology at a very deep level is probably going to be a losing battle.
- JulianMorrison 14y agoThe idea that men pay attention to supermodel shaped women is (1) sexist (2) very mistaken. Sexist men pay horny attention to them. Horniness is a distraction from a product pitch. "I'm sorry, what did you say again? I was staring at your chest."