[mnw.pm] Booth Babe rant

Tushar Samant D at i-works.com
Mon Jul 10 19:11:09 CDT 2000


>feelings on this, I do not hesitate to incorporate the male/female
>flirtation factor to promote goals but there is a tasteful limit
>that booth babes goes beyond.

OK, moderators, feel free to disallow this post... just wanted
to say that the above seems to me to be the crux of the situation.
It is *tasteless*, even if it's half-a-joke, or ironic-take, or
whatever else. And it would be awesome and worthy of respect if
Perl advocates/user groups could successfully run a booth without
"babes" (thus demonstrating that they expect their audience to be
different from a boat-show audience). BTW, calling it tasteless
is exactly what it sounds like--snobbish. I am a snob and I like
Perl. (And I dislike "arguments" like "humans happen to be animals",
"women are free to be booth babes if they want", and "it's business",
because as a snob I happen to think that humans have a developed
taste, freedom to be booth babes is irrelevant, and it's bad
business practice.)

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Tushar Samant
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