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Booth Bimbos (was: RE: Don't even start this thread!)
On 16 Jun 1998, Ira Aabramov wrote:
I won't get into this discussion right now, suffice it to say that the
writer of these lines finds it utterly tasteless and downright degrading
to see those young models/students/whatever being payed to do nothing but
display their bodies in order to attract the spectators, here in Silicon
Valley software engineers become professional show-goers pretty quickly,
and they coined those poor girls "Booth Bimbos". It's humiliating to the
few female visitors to the show, and my over-rightous consciense simply
refuses to do business with those vendors.
[Omer Zak] I think that the people who are degreaded are not those booth bimbos
(who do this willingly for money anyway and it is not that difficult job). The ones who are
degraded are the male nerds who come to those booths. The vendors think that we are
so stupid and hormone-driven that naked skin is adequate substitute for sexy products
(hardware or software).
[Omer Zak] This is what I'd call degrading and humiliating, as I stare at the stunning
beauty and sexy girls promoting ugly, boring and bug-ridden products.
--- Omer