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Are Booth Babes Going Away? (Video)
Michael Steinhart, Editor in Chief of The Enterprise Cloud Site, went to this year's New York Cloud Expo, and saw only one booth with beguiling, scantily-dressed females trying to attract people to their employers' display. But Michael says one booth with babes was one more than last year, when the same show had no booth babes at all. So we wondered: Are booth babes going away? And if they are, is it because of political consciousness or tight budgets? Since Michael has put more time than we have into thinking about these questions, we fired up our webcam and had a little conversation with him about the future of booth babes at IT conferences and trade shows.
I'm really bothered that this post of mine got modded up, and another that doesn't appear to accidentally endorse sexism got modded down. I'd have a much higher opinion of /. moderators if both got modded down. Then at lease the cause would appear to be me, and not the fact that I don't think of women as pieces of meat.
I hate internet communities so damned much. I don't like "check your privilege" because it takes focus away from the sexism itself, but it's seemingly pretty damn apparent that that's not what's important about the people who agree with me.
Ugh. I'm filled with such a visceral loathing I don't have the words to describe it.