Brock- forget about men as booth babes. You say "It's not what they're wearing, it's not their lack of knowledge about the product or service: it's what it implies about the purpose of women in the industry."
So what is it? How can you tell if a woman at a booth is a "booth babe" or (as in the article Eaton linked to) a female developer? Since you're relying on neither their appearance nor the words that come out of their mouths I can only assume that you have some "booth babe" divining powers?
Again: you seem to want to ignore the facts of the situation here to make a broader point about gender inequality, which is imo a pretty silly thing to do. Those women in SF *were* asked to leave, and it was because of the way they were dressed. Nobody needed divining powers, the women made it obvious through their too-short skirts and revealing tops that they were there to look sexy at a booth.
I'm sure you don't mean it this way, but I still feel like you're trying to dance around the meat of the subject, and in doing so I believe you are reinforcing the very gender stereotypes you wish to fight, and at the same time you are helping to marginalize other already marginalized groups within our community.
You also haven't offered anything resembling a solution to the problem you see, probably because you still haven't defined what exactly you see as the problem (yes, I read the links to the "booth babe" article you linked to). I'll ask one last time: can you actually define what it is that makes a woman a "booth babe"? If not, then I'll just have to assume that you don't know what you're talking about...
Forget men...
Brock- forget about men as booth babes. You say "It's not what they're wearing, it's not their lack of knowledge about the product or service: it's what it implies about the purpose of women in the industry."
So what is it? How can you tell if a woman at a booth is a "booth babe" or (as in the article Eaton linked to) a female developer? Since you're relying on neither their appearance nor the words that come out of their mouths I can only assume that you have some "booth babe" divining powers?
Again: you seem to want to ignore the facts of the situation here to make a broader point about gender inequality, which is imo a pretty silly thing to do. Those women in SF *were* asked to leave, and it was because of the way they were dressed. Nobody needed divining powers, the women made it obvious through their too-short skirts and revealing tops that they were there to look sexy at a booth.
I'm sure you don't mean it this way, but I still feel like you're trying to dance around the meat of the subject, and in doing so I believe you are reinforcing the very gender stereotypes you wish to fight, and at the same time you are helping to marginalize other already marginalized groups within our community.
You also haven't offered anything resembling a solution to the problem you see, probably because you still haven't defined what exactly you see as the problem (yes, I read the links to the "booth babe" article you linked to). I'll ask one last time: can you actually define what it is that makes a woman a "booth babe"? If not, then I'll just have to assume that you don't know what you're talking about...