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Don't even start this thread! Was: Re: Computax: Thanks and Credits, Version 0.9
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998 nirs@vipe.technion.ac.il wrote:
> > show, it'll be bigger than the pope, bigger than the beatles! :-)
>
> Ira, I have an idea. According to people I've heard, the main theme that
> changes in computax from year to year, is how topless the female stewrtess
> look. I think that next year, in order to attract people to our booth, we
> need to get some semi-naked girls to hand out fliers about Linux :)
> I belive that most of the list will be for it :)
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. The only one vendor I broke
this rule with this year was Kalanit, I really wanted to win a Palm III
with Hebrew (yes, it exists), to prove my point: a lovely booth bimbo with
huge medusa-like fake hair handed me a card to fill for the drawing, but
didn't even know where I'll need to give it once I filled it up (I didn't
even bother to find out if she even knew or was interested in what the
little gizmo does at all).
so please stop this thread before it starts, the only women I want to have
in our booth are the type that will be able to answer the crowd's tech
questions and I their looks won't matter one bit, on the contrary,
tech-knowledgable women are more welcome to our booth than men since we
want to stand out in that male-chauvinist Computax show and say that
Linux is an OS for all of us. in the SVLUG meetings there is a 5%-10%
showup of women, some are reporters or recuiters, but some are indeed
webmasters, programmers and sysadmins that are professional and competant,
I wish to see more of those in Israel too... anyone knows women in
computer classes in the Technion, TAU, huji, etc? start getting them
interested in Linux! we need to spread the word far and wide, and there's
a whole 50% of the "market share" many forget to consider :-)
--
Ira Abramov <ira(a)scso.com> whois: IA58 (a linux enthusiast)
She sells cshs by the cshore. - Rob Malda