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> 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 "
by saidajigumi 14y ago
> 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
- skastel 14y agoMight be worth noting that even if a woman is there staffing a booth, that doesn't disqualify them from being technically inclined.
- saidajigumi 14y agoI'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."