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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.
As a gay guy, women who pretend to have any sort of self worth by prettying themselves up are worthless whores. I'd rather have booth studs, they'd attract me to listen.
Political correctness, is killing all the fun things in life for straight guys.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Political correctness, is killing all the fun things in life for straight guys.
Depends on your definition of fun I suppose. I wonder if people ever said "The civil rights movement is killing all the fun things in life for members of the master race...."
Next thing you know, you won't be able to get all the good seats in the front of the bus without the negroes getting all uppity about it. Check your privilege.
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
"The thing is, booth babes aren't there for geeks, they're there for non-geek distributors who are salesmen that probably had a much better relationship with hot girls in school."
I'm not so sure. High-school football players get fat and sloppy. But Geeks rule the world. Literally.
Anyway, I wanted to point out, guys, that for every "OMG I'm offended!" pseudo-feminist out there, there is another who really, really enjoys being slobbered over as a booth babe. And they need employment, too.
And one more thing: statistically, going from zero one year to one the next is actually an increase of infinity %. That hardly seems "going away" to me.