[mnw.pm] Re: Booth Babe rant

Elaine -HFB- Ashton elaine at chaos.wustl.edu
Sat Jul 8 12:01:33 CDT 2000


Adam Turoff [ziggy at panix.com] quoth:
*>
*>Call them what you want, but paid booth staff are pretty much a 
*>requirement now.  Would it help if we replaced Ameila with a bevy
*>of booth boys next time?  
*>
*>Yes, I'm serious.

Why? The number of women is small and growing smaller for each conference. 
The market is men, enjoy them.

You are marketing her not as the 'human at the booth' but specifically as
a 'booth babe'. You ask why Perl has so few women milling about out of one
orifice and say 'what booth babe?' out of another. 

e.




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