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Good Riddance To Booth Babes
Colin Campbell has an editorial at Next Generation in which he applauds the decision to fine risque outfits worn by the traditional 'booth babes'. From the article: "Exhibitors at E3 employ a whole range of human beings to attract attention to their booths and excitement to their live events. The ones who attract the largest crowds are either celebrities (fair enough), well-loved industry-creatives (quite right) or so-called 'booth-babes', often behaving in ways that at least mimic the lowest sort of strip joint. People do not dress this way in normal life, not even in Los Angeles. There are some companies that seem more susceptible to this kind of technique than others. It's difficult to imagine, say, EA or Sony or Microsoft or Nintendo bothering with this nonsense."
I've been dealing with convention centers for a long time -- I used to perform IT work for some of the largest convention fixture companies (they build the displays you see). I was always amazed at the mess of union guidelines and government mandates that came with setting up at convention centers. I knew it would only be time before they started jumping on morality, too. Government loves to try to control morality.
I don't have a problem with scantily clad women at conventions and at shows (car shows). They're part of the reason some people go to these events, and then they stay to actually look at the products being sold or promoted. It is a marketing tool.
If women have great bodies, why shouldn't they make money with them? I could care less if they're clothed, naked, whoring themselves out -- it is their body to use as they please as long as it is voluntary trade with another consenting adult.
It blows my mind that this Colin Campbell guy would prefer to see regulation over clothing. Clothing is expression. Expression can not be controlled per the 1st amendment. Of course, our governments can also control expression on private property, which is a bigger atrocity than the regulation on public property.
If a private convention center wants to regulate clothing, they can. A government-run convention center (subsidized by taxpayers usually) should stick with the law that controls their powers. The 1st amendment tells government they have no right to control expression, it is a freedom every human has, and no one should worry about a law abridging this freedom.
For the rest of his article, I'll give you a secret about E3: the real industry insiders don't care anymore. E3 is a consumer show now, no matter how much they try to say it isn't. The industry wants schmucks to go there, gawk at the hot scantily-clad babes, and crow about the next big game. E3 years ago was a blast when it was real insider scoops and communications with industry heavyweights. Now it is just another festival to get drunk, get laid, and then go home and tell everyone about the great new gadgets and games that you saw. The girlies are just a great way to get the geeks to come and take part in the festivities of consumer marketing.
(Disclosure: I am currently working on a convention center so my opinion might be skewed by the lack of steady payments by the customer)
Those vile practices reinforced the social trend to objectify females. I solemnly applaud the decision to ban them. Now take me to the pictures! What? No pics?!?!?!?
Games are entertainment. Cute girls are nice to look at. Is that so wrong?
If you want things more family-friendly, why not just apply the old anime-con cosplay standard of "30% coverage minimum, inlcuding all the obvious places", instead of applying an ambiguous rule that outfits can not be "too risque"?
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
The rules have always been in place, they only recently decided to start "enforcing" them.
Developers, developers, developers.... ;)
Did you just say GOOD riddance to booth babes?
That ain't right.
Don't bother clicking the link to TFA, there aren't any pictures of booth babes. :(
yeah, Sony would just have guys to rape you.
What? Too far?
It's not like I was getting into the event anyways.
This just means more booth babes for other events.
I see this as a good thing.
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Considering that in reality E3 is supposed to be an industry event (I have attended the seminars wearing my game programming hat) and yet recently it has become a giant circus similar to Comdex right before the collapse, I think this is a good move. The press day in particular will be helpful (more so that the clothing requirements): the poor people in the booths are besieged by loser fan boys while the real interviewers can be recognized by the desperate looks of someone under time pressure they wait for a bunch of store clerks to stop hassling their interview target. Or they just get pushy, which I don't blame them for.
Reducing the booth babe exposure (literally) won't prevent people from hiring pretty young women and placing them in the booths. I don't think that practice will ever end (check any other convention and see who is most prominently displayed in each booth: the best looking women of the company or some "spokeswoman" who they hired because the women at the company refused to be so exploited). It will hopefully reduce the circus like atmosphere and restore the event to something that industry actually interacts at.
(On the flip side of the coin, the private parties are even more outlandish than the show floor. Make of that what you will.)
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I wonder if it more a case of sour grapes? There are plenty of bitchy reviews and rants about conventions and how they should do this and that but usually they've been written by somebody who can't manage to get a pass.
They do in Las Vegas. Just FYI.
(No, I'm not being paid a retainer by the Vegas tourist board. And no, I'm not talking about people paid to dress that way in casinos--I'm talking about the girls dressed in skimpy near-transparent outfits you see heading from club to club.)
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but thats ok, I'm sure this makes somebody happy.
I for one enjoy the booth babes, thank you very much.
I've nothing against it, as long as it's geekily appropriate :)
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Well, dada21,
This will come as a shock to you, but I agree with Colin Campbell's take on the booth babes. I do think that they are silly.
My problem with booth babes is that while hiding behind 'free expression', these companies are trying to push their moral standards upon me trying to tell me what I should be looking at while going to a game show. I don't associate games with scantily clad women at all and resent these companies trying to merge the two. I say, get rid of the booth babes and make a product that can stand on its own feet. If people want to see scantily clad women, they can go to places that specialize in that.
We'll always have the Tokyo Gameshow sweet heart
"It's difficult to imagine, say, EA or Sony or Microsoft or Nintendo bothering with this nonsense."
Really? I just imagined it with no difficulty.
be wearing a shiny latex suit from the neck and down which doesn't show any skin at all. Got to please the E3 visitors, right?
Now would someone kindly post some links to pictures of "booth babes" so those who don't frequent conventions know what you are talking about? Thanks!
It's a private function, so they can of course, but sexuality has become such a common advertising practice (sick) that it seems unusual that this has been done. What's next, the Dallas cheerleaders having to wear sweatpants and full shirts to football games?
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(AP) In a move designed to attract more men o its annual event, E3 organizers have declared a ban on:
- Great haircuts
- Alcoholic beverages sold on site
- Turtlenecks
- PDAs and cell phones, as they can be used to steal company secrets
- Glasses, as they pose a fire hazard when combined with the light from a HD-DVD unit
Event organizers claim these measures will not only improve attendance, but usher E3 into an era of moppy-haired, sober, tie-and-contact-lens wearing yuppies.
*Stormtrooper outfits not permitted on account of "been there done that".
-Rob
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I went to the article expecting to see some example booth babe pics, and damn it, there are none! :( I want to see some booth babe pics in this article! :)
Also, Colin Cambell is an idiot. The man is obviously gay and hates anyone who is not like him. Ironic, but sad.
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This is a win-win situation, isn't it? All those who can afford it/are lucky enough/know a guy who knows a guy get the important folks in their booth, and the sad bastards who wish they could afford/were lucky/knew someone who knew someone provide some eyecandy for all the horny gamers. In the interest of womens liberation, maybe someone should have the chippendales in their boot or something.. allthough that could swing both ways. Actually, that would be rather risky if you want to attract any male geeks/gamers..
How, exactly, does this work for the booth trying to sell Tomb Raider?
The censors in this country would assplode if they had to deal with those women.
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It's not like it's that big of a loss, you can still find women who are just as scantily clad, if not more-so, in the games that the booth babes were often there to promote in the first place. On the plus side, instead of a deluge of sites offering their daily booth babe shots, maybe we can actually get a picture or two of some actual products.
If big boobed women work at Hooters do one legged women work at IHOP?
I have no idea what you are talking about. please upload several high-res pictures to illustrate.
Where are the pics of the booth babes?
A while ago I went to my first trade event as a potential buyer and for the most part the show was professional and well run. The stands were tidy and the people running them helpful and polite. There is, however, one stand that has really stuck in my mind and that was the one with the "booth babe". Maybe I'm naive but I didn't expect it at all as this was a professional event. My first response was shock my first thought was "I wouldn't deal with them if you paid me". After talking to the other suppliers I wandered over to this stand simply because I felt I might as well do the lot. I was expecting their offerings to be poor and guess what I wasn't disapointed - even their sales guy was a prat. I wonder how much that event has cost them in terms of lost sales?
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"People do not dress this way in normal life, not even in Los Angeles. There are some companies that seem more susceptible to this kind of technique than others."
This could also have read, "there are some PEOPLE that seem more susceptible to this kind of technique"...
Me being one of those people. Ahem.
I'm sure the more creative types will find a way around the booth babe restrictions. There are plenty of ways to be sexy without showing a lot of skin or behaving in obviously lewd manners. But if E3 is hoping to somehow clean up the image of the games industry by "cleaning" up the trade show, forget it! As long as violent games like the GTA series and others grab the spotlight, what happens at the trade show really doesn't matter. And it certainly doesn't matter how people are dressed. I mean really, if the adult film industry held high class swanky industry events where everyone was impeccably dressed and behaved with the highest manners, would that gain adult films any more respect than they get now? I doubt it. Window dressing is nice, but ultimately it's the product that matters the most.
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This article is worthless without pictures.
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...there are very few reasons most guys do ANYTHING at all except to "get chicks". It's the truth as mush as it might be unpleasant for people to accept. The whole concept of the "booth babe" isn't only to sell the product but to also attract males to the industry as a whole. If you're a guy, put some thought into it. Why did you work hard at a particular interest? I mean at the core... You did it because at some very core point you really wanted to attract female attention. This is why I got into music and then later computers. I won't lie and say I had some noble interest in music and the arts or technology. When I was a five year old boy, I enjoyed playing music and was given music lessons. But when I was fifteen, I REALLy got interested because I was hoping I could be a new wave star and get a girlfriend through that. Then when I moved on to post-college life and saw that a career in music was going to be difficult and possibly fruitless, I took my innate interest in electronics and computers and lucked into an admin job. But what was at the core? I had a girlfriend who I wanted to eventually have as my wife and I knew that if I had a stable job with a secure income, I'd get what I wanted. And in the end, I did. Everything I've ever done (learning to cook really well, photography, composing my own music, home repair) has all gone back to one core thing: sex with women. So I think this article isn't being genuine about reality. The only reason men do anything is to get sex. Period. Or I could be trolling... ;P Or maybe not. You decide.
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Come back booth bunny....
Come back booth bunny's sister!
Almost. People love to try to control morality. They try to use government as the tool of their control.
Don't lay all your problems on the "government". That just disguises the problem and confuses the solution.
There is nothing so silly as other peoples traditions, and nothing so sacred as our own.
"There are some companies that seem more susceptible to this kind of technique than others. It's difficult to imagine, say, EA or Sony or Microsoft or Nintendo bothering with this nonsense."
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It would appear at least Microsoft is no stranger to booth babes. A quick glance at e3girls.com easily reveals one of many pages of Microsoft using so-called "booth babes" to promote products.
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What? I was only visiting that site for uh... proof to refute the summary's claim... yeah...
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Wolde you bothe eate your cake, and have your cake?
booth-babes'often behaving in ways that at least mimic the lowest sort of strip joint.
Personally I'd find it more stimulating if they were wearing business suits and were "behaving in ways that at least mimic the lowest sort of strip joint." Kudos for the change!
I mean right there, a clear typo. I don't know how someone could hit the L O and W keys when the word is best.
I've had about 20 people link me about the new booth babe regulations, but no one seems to be talking about the other changes that have happened to E3 this year. To me, it doesn't seem like this is some arbitrary regulation that they just happened to start, but rather just a part of an overall restructuring of the event. For example, one of the other rules that I know which has changed is that retail folks can no longer get in just by being your regular Joe working at a game store. They are only distributing a certain number of passes for those involved in retail companies, and the upper management in said companies gets to choose whom they would like to attend. This will hopefully limit the number of gawkers and people who have a very loose connection to the industry, and keep the place less crowded. There are probably other changed rules, how come we never hear about them? Oh, because... sex sells. ;-) Or the lack of it, in this case.
i'm confused. looking at the images, i would have to say that the amount of flesh showing is in line with what i see in LA. ok, not in the office, but on the street. the women in the pictures are certainly better than the average woman on the street. but, the complaint in the article is not that the women are good looking but rather that they are dressed inappropriately.
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It's difficult to imagine, say, EA or Sony or Microsoft or Nintendo bothering with this nonsense.
It's really not that difficult. You just need to open your eyes the next time you are at the Tokyo Game Show to see some.
You mean like the Seagals do? Hell, the last time I saw them, they were wearing coats too... Coulda been because it was cold and raining though...
Companies that repeatedly use this tactic eventually get weeded out by Adam Smith's invisible hand.
--Mike--
Given the turn in many of the games I've seen lately to produce "larger" more realistic (visually if not dimenensionally) boobies, I'd say that booth babes are rather representative in ways of the games being advertised.
For that very reason, FFX-2 sits uncompleted on my shelves to this day...
There's nothing inherently unethical about booth babes. It's their chosen profession and they're being paid for their looks and their "marketting skills", ie. bringing the customers to the stand. It takes a lot of effort to stay looking that way, and courage to do it.
... I'm sure it won't be just the girls who check out their assets.
Where is might be said to be on shakey ground is if both sexes aren't fairly represented, because then the do-gooders start talking about "objectifying women". Bring on the booth hunks, too
Post up directional signs for "Booth Babes here" and "Booth Hunks there" and increase the merriment and general fun by clearly laughing at ourselves for doing it.
Vive la diference!
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Colin Campbell has hit the nail on the head. Computer and video games are known for only appealing to the intellectual elite and morally pure. The range of products is staggering, ranging from shooting something to err, shooting everything, killing someone, and sometimes even driving. "Booth babes" must play no part in this industry.
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I also agree that the role of women in the industry is complex. In real life women daub their faces with make-up, wear high heels to alter their height and posture, select clothes to accentuate different parts of their body, ask surgeons to carry out significant cosmetic procedures under general anaesthetic. - and despite what you might like to believe this is a choice made by an adult with free will, and reflects a "beauty" industry supported and guided by, erm, _women_. But obviously that's real life, and asking a professional model to do something in the same vein, for money, is totally off the wall and disgusting
If Colin is bothered by professional _female_ (which I think is the actual issue for him, together with the rather pathetic cliched traits of a man self-consciously trying to show himself as a pseudo feminist because he thinks women will admire him) models he should not spend so much time looking at them and obsessing.
I can think of areas where the use of sex appeal is _totally_ inappropriate - for example TV newreaders who are chosen for physical attractiveness; because that's very important when you're reporting the latest disaster or brutal murder, isn't it ? Now that really is _disgusting_ .
...put a stick up that guy's ass? I've locked at the article, I've locked a a few pages of booth babes pictures - and I wonder if "risque outfit" has the same definition in american dictionaries as in mine.
All of these girls are fully and appropriately dressed. Aside from the fact that they have logos all over and some of them are wearing obvious custumes, the only reason any of them would be looked at even twice if they were to, say, go shopping in the center of my city tomorrow was because it doesn't fit to the damn cold.
I've seen much more revealing outfits at pretty much every party and not few during normal summer shopping.
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"It's difficult to imagine, say, EA or Sony or Microsoft or Nintendo bothering with this nonsense."
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Look at the last post on this blog: http://techbabeasia.blogspot.com/2001_10_01_techb
Sure, they're not "scantily" clad, but it is still a hot girl being used to attract attention to a booth. I feel bad that she had to wear that awful outfit...
Now we can finally get these poor gorgeous women back out to their old jobs, working the street corners.
Since when are the organizers of E3 also state and/or federal legislators? RTFA
"Government loves to try to control morality."
No government intervention involved or called for. RTFA.
You have your own blog in which you can bemoan government as much and as often as you want. This isn't it. Fight the power somewhere else please.
Would you feel comfortable at a game conference surrounded by scantily clad men flexing their muscles?
And he's just pissed they don't have guys in black leather chaps in the booths.
It's difficult to imagine, say, EA or Sony or Microsoft or Nintendo bothering with this nonsense."
You mean like when Microsoft brought in the Laker Girls? Or when Sony got Denise Harris to dress up as that half-nekkid elf chick? Please.
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Good Riddance To Booth Babes
Noooooooo!I guess I won't be attending any more expos. The only thing that'll make me stop (or slow down) at a booth is a booth babe or they have something really cool.
Colin Campbell has an editorial at Next Generation in which he applauds the decision to fine risque outfits worn by the traditional 'booth babes'.
Is Colin gay? Would he prefer Booth Stud Muffins?
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Let's see, by your measure, a person who is physically mute doesn't have first amendment rights to express him/herself? Sounds like a flawed interpretation to me.
I would also point out that the Supreme Court disagrees with your constitutional analysis. They have upheld quite a few activities not specifically defined in the first amendment as protected under its auspices - things like flag burning, performance art, hand gestures, and other 'non-speech' expressions.
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An act of rampant homosexuality and/or zealous religious non-sense! ;o
Why do you also not have a problem with celebrities being used to draw people to the booths? Some B-list actor is no more relevant to the products being sold than some chick in hot pants is. They're placed there for only one reason, to make people gawk and hopefully notice the products being pitched. While you're at it, how about regulating the rampant appearance of celebrities in public; the world would truly be a better place if you did.
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Booth babes had the wonderful effect of attracting lines of single guys wanting a photo or autograph. That means shorter lines for the game and hardware demos the rest of us want to see. Without booth babes, everyone will look at the games, which ruins it for the rest of us.
People do not dress this way in normal life, not even in Los Angeles.
Boy, you really do need to get out more! Here in Norway, girls dress like this any summer day.
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Then again it is hard to imagine an area of public sales where a pretty girl won't do the trick. Wether it is the stewardes or the receptionist a pretty face works better.
As for it being sexist. Advertising aimed at women either uses the most perfect male or a mental retard. "Normal" men need not apply to sell products to women.
Hell a lot of ads aimed at females use pretty females themselves so what is wrong with ads aimed at men using sexy females.
This guy probably got a serious case of the right wing nutter disease and starts enforcing his own impotentency on the rest of us. Just because he can not longer enjoy looking at a pretty girl he must ruin it for the rest of us as well.
Booth babes are a way to dress up your booth, to get eyeballs on your stand and then once you got them there you can make your sale. It is very old, it happens in every industry and it won't go away. I seen these kinds of restrictions being proposed before and they are always worked around. When you are selling the next DOA game you can hardly have it being advertised by a couple of guys in suits.
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I think one year at E3, it was in the same building as a real porn, err excuse me, adult entertainment, conference
It's kind of fresh, e3 knows who they are selling to and don't hide from it.
I've worked from some of the legitest, straight shootingest big companies in the world and it's just a fact of life, looks matter. Our presidents are picked in part based on looks, you think there have been many short presidents? You think Ms. Zeta-Jones is hocking T-Mobile services because of her mad GSM skillz or because she is one of the sexiest women in the world? Go to any conference or convention you want and you'll see companies with mostly men in their engineering groups and an incredibly disproportionate number of women representing their work. Not always overtly sexual but generally attractive women. Never big fat ugly women, almost 100% nice looking, fit, attractive ladies.
You think Lara Croft is a real female role model? With her oh so realistic and common anime like proportions? Come on. Men and boys like big tits, hot chicks, long legs,all that stuff. We will buy products if you have that.
"People do not dress this way in normal life, not even in Los Angeles."
Obviously you haven't been on the streets of LA. Check out Hollywood Blvd.
Now that is a funny one Mr. Troll, a non-work-safe one shows up even if the "safe search" filter is on.
And no, the link does not contain a "safe-search=off" as far as I can tell and yes my settings are on the default filter.
Then again I am not the warning grandparent poster, I know better and that GIS tends to have non-work-safe images even with the filter in place.
is provided a few of the more egregious examples for us to downl^^^ view so we can see how bad it really is!
Who put this thing together? Me, that's who.
Woah there cowboy. Whoever said anything about the parent or the article being Christian?
Besides, let's attack the message one at a time. Today's topic is "booth babes"; we can talk about violence and Christians tomorrow.
It's difficult to imagine, say, EA or Sony or Microsoft or Nintendo bothering with this nonsense.
Apparently they didn't go to GDC last year, or they would have seen that Nintendo had their own booth-babes to really push their new tagline: "Touching is Good"
One thing makes me wonder why? and really why did they do this? dod some kid complain that he saw too many "nice looking" (American style) girls. This type of thing would only happen in America.any other country wouldnt care about girls that actually have cloths on that dont show private parts. Are they now going to make the "family restraunt" HOOTERS girls dress different now too? WTF? We have gone past being PC with this. There has to be a way to shelter kids from girls with big racks with out affecting us people that dont care.. oh yeah pock their eyes out... that might work. or provide blind folds for people when they come into the expo.
This is just horrible! What is so wrong about a bunch of hot women hanging out with a bunch of computer nerds?! Who was the whiner? Who ratted them out? Some Neo-feminist group? Some Irresponsible Parents group? (TV and video games are NOT Babysitters!) Senators Hillary Clinton and Joseph Lieberman?
The "Family Entertainment Protection Act" is what to videogames what the Patriot Act is to the rest of our freedoms! I suppose all the booth babes should just show up next year in burkas!
I don't give a damn what these up tight hippocrites say! I want my Booth Babes at E3!
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Are these shows in Las Vegas (aka the USA for those that forgot it) or somewhere in the Middle East? Last time I checked we had Freedom of Expression and Speech in this country and we do not dictate what our women can or cannot wear!
If somebody is willing to pay a beautiful woman to wear a skimpy outfit, and she is willing, then hey so be it! As for those that do not like it, do not look at them or go to these shows! Remember freedom of choice applies to you as well!
It's difficult to imagine, say, EA or Sony or Microsoft or Nintendo bothering with this nonsense.
Has this fool played any games from the last 15 years? How many of those games have women in skimpy outfits? How many of those game women are horny developers' wet dreams?
Please! These booth babes are just a reflection of what's in the bloody games!
Pretentious fool.
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I guess this is Colin Campbell's coming out article as any warm blooded hetero male (i.e. the audience many of these companies often target) are drawn to the booth babes like flies on crap.
This guy also knows nothing about trade show exhibits. Its about getting the audience to your booth so they can see your wares. Offer some gimmick (free something), contests, flashing lights and babes in tight clothing and your going to attract the crowds. Attract enough of a crowd and the audience is perpetual, more are drawn to the congregation to find out what is going on which draws more people. Eventually, some of them are going to look at your product as opposed to your competitor's who are sitting alone in the corner with their bow ties and morals intact.
It may be garish or immoral, but its marketing at its finest!
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
the real issue at steak is a greater cultural understanding of our own sexuality, which america has been struggling with ever since they evolved from their original puritanical roots. I'm not sure that a tech weenie is really qualified to get into that discussion--I know I am not.
Errr, if you do a little research you will find that sex has been selling products from about 150 years ago. True, overt sexuality is a fairly recent (circa 1960) phenomenon, but the underlying message has been there for quite some time.
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Yet strangely, valve nipples will give you fourteen pages of mostly-relevant images, with no spurious mammalian protuberances to be found.
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If he's the same Colin Campbell who once dissed me in (now defunct) UK videogames trade weekly CTW, then I can say with authority that all his opinions are 100% wrong. Go booth babes! :p
You must think in Russian.
If only we good get rid off religious zealot then so many "problems" won't be "problems" any more and our lives would be so much happier and simple.
Would it really be worth a write up if someone did a google image search on booth babes and got one image that shouldn't be included? I had moderate safe search on. Sometimes you just get a result you don't expect. As long as the employee closes the browser right away and isn't spending too much time on Slashdot...
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I was REALLY hoping TFA would have some pictures as examples...
If you disagree with me on social issues, then it's pretty clear that you are a narrow-minded bigot.
As a code monkey I find the term "booth babe" degrading to con chicks.
I think someone has tightened the belt on their hat too much. Check pages 58 and 195. How is that inappropriate in the least?
"Yet my problem with Campbell is his desire to enforce morality by LAW."
TFA makes no such assertions. If you are getting this from some other source, post a link. Otherwise this is the biggest strawman I have ever seen, all in an attempt to justify posting your diatribes in a more popular medium than your own blog.
True. I should have stated this was from a cultural perspective too. Compared to Japan (I'm not sure about other countries), our use of strong sexuality to sell products and advertise things is somewhat grotesque.
In undeveloped countries, the consumer controls the market. In capitalist America, the market controls you.
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They could have been partially nude transvestite furries in 50,000 watt blinken' LED jock straps, fire coming out of the asses shooting 200 feet in the air, grinding each other while dancin' to hippy-trippin' house music stoked on E, all the while a huge-ass Tesla coil shoots off crackling 20 foot bolts of lighting - and maybe, just maybe...
I would look and smile, and think "Hell, that's nothing - wait until Saturday, when the Man burns..." - and still be disapointed because last year was just "so much bettah"...
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