E3 'Booth Babe' Interviews Reveal Comedy, Tragedy

Thanks to GameCritics.com for its series of interviews with 'booth babes' at this year's E3 videogame show, discussing "the tales these women had to tell." A model promoting Saga Of Ryzom is asked "if she's comfortable with so many guys posing with her", and answers: "It's weird when they put their arms around me... but then I feel them shaking and I'm like, whatever, if it's so important to you... it's funny when guys come up to me and tell me that it's their first time touching a girl." Girls at the Nintendo booth are also interviewed, complaining of the trade-show melee: "It's funny that people act this way over little stuffed toys... there have been people attacking us for free stuff. People will walk up to us and just try to grab it."

Comments

Shaking just to touch

[slaker]

It's incredibly fucking sad that there's a large enough group of people from whom contact with members of the opposite sex is such a foreign concept as to induce such atypical physical reactions - the article refers to the awkwardness the male conventiongoers have around the so-called "Booth Babes".

I freely admit I'd likely be in the same category. I don't think I've actually touched another human being in a couple years.

The question is, what does one do about it?

A close friend of mine was an E3 booth babe

[daviddennis]

Not one of the front-rankers, she said, but she had to admit that she thrived on the male attention. It was just a great big high for her.

She had a good time, but at the end of the day it was exhausting - 12 hour days on your feet will do that to you. File it under the kind of experience you're glad you had but not terribly keen to repeat.

She said she was one of the few babes who didn't cut up the provided clothes to be sexier and I guess get more photo ops. It's pretty funny since a friend of mine hates her normal, um, lack of modesty in dress, so we were both thinking she would have gone to town on it.

But she got plenty of attention anyway, and it definitely made her a little high on life for a while, which I cheerfully admit I enjoyed seeing.

She had much more of a natural look than the booth babes I've seen in pictures. Curiously enough I felt she was much more attractive than the women who actually got photographed, but, well, that might have to do with her personality and 10,000 watt smile more than her looks. Not that the latter were deficient, you understand, but it's that personality that keeps me coming back for more.

The game she was representing was someting called 25 to Life. Her comment was that I wouldn't like it. Smart girl; I have no interest whatsoever in killing people or pretending to kill people or being in the ghetto because it's "cool".

I'd rather be in my house at the top of the hill with my PowerMac G5 and Cinema HD display.

Why do people, in games and in music, find such repellant environments attractive?

D

What's your proof that women dig intelligence?

[GuyMannDude]

I find that most girls are very attracted to intelligence and to guys with a passion for technology.

Would you mind tell us how you came to this determination? I'm not being an ass; I really want to know. I've never found any indication that this is true of "most girls" like you suggest. Oh sure, I find lots of women who claim they are attracted to intelligence. But I think many say this because it sounds a lot better than stating that they are attracted to good-looking morons. There's also a question of what they mean by "intelligence". Many people (not just women) seem to think that those people on Jeopardy who have crammed tons of useless trivia into their heads and can regurgitate it at will are intelligent.

While I am not a techie, I am a mathematician. And you know what? When I tell women that I'm a mathematician, they give me an obligatory "ooh" or something along like that before starting to tell me about how much they suck at math or hate math or didn't understand math. That's pretty much where the conversation ends. Sometimes, I'll get someone who still wants to know more about what I'm working on. But even that conversation doesn't go on for very long.

I'm sure some here will argue that it's unfair to expect a non-scientist to ask too many questions of a mathematician they are meeting socially because there is such a large barrier to entry in the field. I disagree. Hell, I don't know shit about marketing but when some woman tells me that she works in marketing I can ask enough questions to keep the converstation going. Hell, even generic questions like "Can you describe for me what a typical day at work for you entails?" or "How much interaction do you have with coworkers/bosses/customers?" or "How much stress is involved?" It's hard to take their lack-of-questioning to be an indication that they are secretly attracted to my intelligence.

Again, I'd really like to hear how you came to the conclusion that women are "very attracted to intelligence and to guys with a passion for technology." I haven't really seen any clear evidence of that. I think the women are mostly looking for someone who is (a) kind, (b) stable, and (c) fun to be with. I don't think your IQ or ability to recompile your linux kernal really enters their decision process to any signficant degree.

GMD

Re:What's your proof that women dig intelligence?

[real_smiff]

i think what you're missing is that there's many kinds of intelligence that people can have. i think when women say they want an intelligent guy, it usually means witty, observant, sensitive and things like this. *not* a walking encyclopedia, or even someone who is any good at academic work at all. being good with your hands (no double entendre intended) is one example, being practical and so on. if you think about it (to get deep), evolution has favoured women who went for these sort of things. oog oog ape man. console yourself with the thought that being a mathematician is such a recent idea that women haven't had a chance to catch up ;). i am not an expert on sexual attraction.

I have the opposite problem

[M3wThr33]

Of the 5 years I have gone, three of them have been with my girlfriend. So it's a bit awkward being around her. Of course, if it's any X-Men or Roman person, SHE wants her picture taken.