Booth Babes, Street Clothes, and GDC: Thanks But You sort of Made It Worse
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Booth Babes, Street Clothes, and GDC: Thanks But You sort of Made It Worse
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Re: Booth Babes, Street Clothes, and GDC: Thanks But You sort of Made It Worse
#2Maybe wearing a beat-up t-shirt that says "Come to the Dark Side. We have cookies. " would help establish the OP as an engineer.
Re: Booth Babes, Street Clothes, and GDC: Thanks But You sort of Made It Worse
#3I wish we had more men who dressed up as booth babes. Don't we have enough body builders in the game industry yet?
Re: Booth Babes, Street Clothes, and GDC: Thanks But You sort of Made It Worse
#4I wish we had more men who dressed up as booth babes. Don't we have enough body builders in the game industry yet?
That is the secret plot behind "brogramming."
Re: Booth Babes, Street Clothes, and GDC: Thanks But You sort of Made It Worse
#5I wish we had more men who dressed up as booth babes. Don't we have enough body builders in the game industry yet?
What would be the benefit of this to the companies promoting their product?
Re: Booth Babes, Street Clothes, and GDC: Thanks But You sort of Made It Worse
#6Seems like a hard problem to solve.
Sending people to do product promotional is perfectly legitimate depending on the type of event. Even if you weren't deliberately targeting a male audience with attractive females (although I'm sure that was the case), odds are that if you were recruiting for that kind of work 90% would be outgoing and attractive young women. Just like recruiting programmers will get you 90% geeky white males.
Re: Booth Babes, Street Clothes, and GDC: Thanks But You sort of Made It Worse
#7Wait, I don't get it. I'm at GDC. A very large portion (maybe even a majority) of either gender is non-technical. It's an industry event so there are lots of salespeople, hr, biz-dev, etc. I wouldn't assume a man I met here was a developer.
There are some pretty obvious booth babes (the energy drink girls, ones with swords, etc.) There are women who, while perhaps non-technical, legitimately work for the companies they're hawking. I don't get the impression they're hired guns, though I haven't done a survey.
Perhaps it's easy to say because I'm not a woman, but I think I'd feel less uncomfortable here than anywhere else where I was outnumbered 10:1.
Re: Booth Babes, Street Clothes, and GDC: Thanks But You sort of Made It Worse
#8I can't imagine how frustrating that must be.
But I hate the concept of giving up fighting for yourself. Why not put a few people in their place? If that's just not in your nature, fair enough; but I say make a few guys feel like idiots by stepping up to the plate with your expertise. If they don't like it, that's their problem.
And if that fails, I like davidrobert's idea as well -- maybe wear a shirt that has a really nerdy programming joke on it. Or, better yet, the HN shirt ^_^ -- http://teespring.com/hntees
Re: Booth Babes, Street Clothes, and GDC: Thanks But You sort of Made It Worse
#9Maybe wearing a beat-up t-shirt that says "Come to the Dark Side. We have cookies. " would help establish the OP as an engineer.
That's why I prefer to be an engineer, so I don't have to F#@$ing dress up like anybody! "Dress up like an engineer", WTF is that supposed to be? Am I the only person who is dumbfounded by this? We're all about judging worth based on who someone is and what they've done... The only time I ever "dress up" is when I have to deal with certain business types who are perfectly comfortable with a monocle & a pocket watch.