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Being A Booth Babe Can Be A Scary Job

January 10, 2010 in Video comments 6

Gamers can be creepy at times. We've heard stories about cosplayers being harassed by overenthusiastic gamers and voice actresses recieving death threats from disgruntled fans, and it seems being a booth babe is no different.
Gizmodo interviewed a handful of booth babes at this year's CES convention, and they were surprised to find that all of them had experienced at least one creepy moment while on the job.

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We didn't approach these women —models, actresses, circus performers, dancers, students, nurses, programmers— just to ogle and schmooze. We didn't simply want to collect pretty pictures for readers to drool over. (Although we did that, too.) We wanted to get to know the girls, their pasts, how they came to be booth babes, what they did when they weren't charming strangers, and what they experienced during their times at conventions such as CES.

Many of these intelligent, charming women had a sense of reluctance when it came to taking members of the press seriously. Often we heard girls talk of men who don't understand that a "press badge isn't an excuse" to fondle them as one might touch "everything shiny and pretty" in the booths.
Miss Razz via gizmodo.com »
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  • 2
    ruledbysecrecy Jan 10, 10
    When I was at CES I just crack up at the kind of guys that pull the booth babes aside to talk to them. They fall into 2 categories generally, the trying way too hard suave doucehbag that's wearing ballroom clothes to an electronics convention. Or the fat slobs that waddle around wearing a stained t-shirt and shorts and that "I haven't shaved in a couple days look."

    God bless those ignorant girls to put up with it, entertaining those fools all day. Then again they damn well better, getting paid a healthy sum I'm sure for just looking pretty.
  • 4
    Hideo1 Jan 10, 10
    Well then they can just go and get real jobs then, can't they?
  • 1
    Dark Arcanine Jan 11, 10
    They're asking for it by taking that job. You can't enter a job in the gaming industry, where the majority of the customer base is built of people who are never going to get such women, and not encounter weird people. xD They're just lucky there's no gaming conventions here. "Face-to-face" with a flesh-and-blood woman" = Priceless video voice over
  • 1
    Curt Connors Jan 11, 10
    Nothing smart was ever said about women after the phrase 'They're asking for it'
    • 0
      Hideo1 Jan 11, 10
      'They're asking for it, so we'll give them respect and equal rights in the work place.'

      Yeah, you're right.
  • 0
    Miss Razz Jan 20, 10
    Dunno why I jus tthought of this..but does the girl on the right kinda remind anybody of Thirteen from House?

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