[Ziltoid]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/connieguglie...ange-that/

So, according to some broad who works for CES, dressing like a slut to advertise gadgets to pasty nerds is OK (they're obviously not going to do away with the practice, since it fucking works... advertising 101), but being called a "babe", what the hay, now that's just crossing the line!

Quote:

“I am offended by anyone calling anyone a ‘babe’ under any circumstances,” says Karen Chupka, senior vice president of International CES & corporate business strategy for the CEA.

“We’re in the year 2013 and it’s rude,” Chupka says after I called to ask about the booth babe situation at this year’s show in Las Vegas, which drew more than 150,000 attendees and more than 3,000 exhibitors from around the world earlier this month. “I just don’t assume that we should call any woman who is working a booth at the show a ‘babe.’ The word babe offends me and I’m offended by anyone who uses it.”

However, the author of the article takes it one step further, and does indeed conclude that women choosing to get paid to display their perky tits and ass is objectifying and excludes women from blah blah bla-- ZZZzzZZzzzzz...

By total coincidence I'm sure, both the author and the lady with CES are quite lacking in the looks department (nobody will be hiring them to work booths any time soon...) and have quite possibly never known male attention in their lives, but hey, at least they'll never have to suffer the objectifying indignity of being called a babe, right?

[Cincinnatus]

Any man that considers those two beasts to be 'babes' needs to be brutally caned. Holy shit.

Also I think the second one has lazy eye.

[Ziltoid]

Just to clarify, those two pictured are the CES board member and the author of the article, not booth babes... Real booth babes ARE actually hot.

[LooTa]

(02-01-2013 01:50 AM)MSW2007 Wrote:  

Any man that considers those two beasts to be 'babes' needs to be brutally caned. Holy shit.

Also I think the second one has lazy eye.

It's not just her eye that's lazy. Looks like her idea of exrecise is going to the freezer to get another tub of ice cream.

[scorpion]

(02-01-2013 01:50 AM)MSW2007 Wrote:  

Any man that considers those two beasts to be 'babes' needs to be brutally caned. Holy shit.

Also I think the second one has lazy eye.

Nah man, I think the second one definitely looks like Babe.

[Screwston]

Be nice, Babe was a cute pig.

[HeyPete]

Now I have something new to use. "Babe"

I can add it to, "smile!" ... Did you know women absolutely hate when you say that to them?

I also have been using the term creepy - a lot - for women (who are not young or hot).

Example. I was chatting with a "babe" from another company that works in the same building. She's telling me some mundane b.s. about another lady at her work.
I stopped her and said, "Wait, what does she look like?"
The female I know says, "I don't know. Mid-to-late 30's, shortish dark hair .... "

I said, "Ew, creepy."

[LooTa]

For some reason women don't seem to like being called 'toots' either. That just makes it all the more fun.

[Handsome Creepy Eel]

(02-01-2013 01:53 AM)Ziltoid Wrote:  

Just to clarify, those two pictured are the CES board member and the author of the article, not booth babes... Real booth babes ARE actually hot.

I think she's hot, but all that plastic surgery ruined her looks. Not 2/10 wouldn't bang, but I can't help but look at her and think "so much wasted potential".

[Cincinnatus]

(02-01-2013 02:34 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  

(02-01-2013 01:53 AM)Ziltoid Wrote:  

Just to clarify, those two pictured are the CES board member and the author of the article, not booth babes... Real booth babes ARE actually hot.

I think she's hot, but all that plastic surgery ruined her looks. Not 2/10 wouldn't bang, but I can't help but look at her and think "so much wasted potential".

I'm not a fan of fake tits, and her face is busted. 4/10 would bang if drunk.

[K-man]

Of course, in one of the videos linked there was the mangina on duty who said "to me it's offensive, when I see that to me it means it's a sleazy company that I don't want to associate myself with":


Loved the CEO alpha dude who, when asked why the industry hires scantily-clad models to present their products, only gave as justification "it works".

[Kitsune]

(02-01-2013 03:02 AM)K-man Wrote:  

Of course, in one of the videos linked there was the mangina on duty who said "to me it's offensive, when I see that to me it means it's a sleazy company that I don't want to associate myself with":


Loved the CEO alpha dude who, when asked why the industry hires scantily-clad models to present their products, only gave as justification "it works".

"It works" is the reason for all marketing, game and social strategies. I wish people who got upset over the ethics of it all would just wake up and smell the coffee.

[Hotwheels]

I call them all babes. Fuck trying to remember names.


They don't like this?


Never noticed....

[Ziltoid]

The women actually being paid to stand around and objectify themselves don't seem to mind the term.

[Days of Broken Arrows]

Do these women know how many women voluntarily use the term "babe" as part of their handle on dating sites, Yahoo profiles, and the like?

Do a no-quote search for the words OKCupid and babe and see how many profiles come up. The first woman that came up for me called herself "Babe-Lincoln." I hope these harpies don't try to shut her down.

[Hades]

Alrighty, can't use female terms for them anymore, gonna start calling them "beardless men with tits".

[bojangles]

it's offensive to ugly women because they never get the opportunity to be called 'babe'.

'babe' has strong connections to the physical beauty of a woman, i.e. beach babes and everyone thinks probably baywatch and pamela's boobies bouncing up and down in the opening sequence.

I've used babe quite often in the past.

Ugly bitches be moaning, nothing new i guess

[SkeletonJelly?]

(02-01-2013 02:55 AM)MSW2007 Wrote:  

(02-01-2013 02:34 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  

(02-01-2013 01:53 AM)Ziltoid Wrote:  

Just to clarify, those two pictured are the CES board member and the author of the article, not booth babes... Real booth babes ARE actually hot.

I think she's hot, but all that plastic surgery ruined her looks. Not 2/10 wouldn't bang, but I can't help but look at her and think "so much wasted potential".

I'm not a fan of fake tits, and her face is busted. 4/10 would bang if drunk.

Yeah I hate it when girls wear too much makeup. 3/10 only bang if the mood is right