The Short Skirt Police: Feminist Fundamentalism At PAX
Like puritanical religions, PAX -- the gaming festival -- has a dress code for women, and, uh, anyone dressed as a woman.
Still no booth women allowed at #PaxEast. And they will be measuring skirts! How many nuns on hand today? #Gamergate pic.twitter.com/NTUwLTHs32
— Ford Freestar (@I_AM_IRON_VAN) March 11, 2017
How far we haven't come.
Oh, and, after I tweeted the link, @Yeyoza snickered to me on Twitter about "female intrasexual competition." As I wrote in a column:
Social psychologists Roy Baumeister and Jean Twenge report that it's widely believed that men drive the "cultural suppression of female sexuality" -- which could include shaming women for how they dress. However, in reviewing the research, they make a persuasive case that it's primarily women (often without awareness of their motives) who work to "stifle each other's sexuality."This is right in keeping with research on female competition. While men fight openly -- "Bring it! I will ruin you!" -- women take a sneakier approach. As female competition researcher Tracy Vaillancourt explains it, women fight for their interests using "indirect aggression," like gossip, mean looks, disparaging remarks, and other underhanded tactics to "reduce the mate value of a rival." Underhanded tactics? You know -- like suggesting you're selling out womankind if you wear a skirt or winged eyeliner.
via @Yeyoza
I suggest that the biggest enemy Danica McKellar has in promoting math and STEM careers to girls is other women, not Teh Patriarchy.
Can't be hot and smart. That would be unrealistic, especially at a gaming convention. /snark
Radwaste at March 13, 2017 6:49 AM
I had the privilege of attending the Sulamaniyah International Trade Show in Iraq years ago. They had the hottest looking English speaking ladies in all of Iraqi-Kurdistan manning the booths. Maybe that's why Sulaymaniyah is a boom town.
Dennis at March 13, 2017 7:32 AM
I had the privilege of attending the Sulamaniyah International Trade Show in Iraq years ago. They had the hottest looking English speaking ladies in all of Iraqi-Kurdistan manning the booths. Maybe that's why Sulaymaniyah is a boom town.
Dennis at March 13, 2017 7:32 AM
I'm sure the local imam will be on hand? along with the religious police?
Flogging? stoning?
I R A Darth Aggie at March 13, 2017 7:36 AM
"Aggressive Display of Cleavage" would be a great band name.
Kevin at March 13, 2017 7:41 AM
That's a display that I've never found to be aggressive in the slightest degree.
llater,
llamas
llamas at March 13, 2017 9:04 AM
If the young lady(ies) in question are trying to suffocate you, it can be pretty aggressive.
I R A Darth Aggie at March 13, 2017 11:15 AM
I'm not sure that such tactics even work. Yes, you get more people in your booth if you provide eye candy. But if that is all you've got or if all anyone is looking at is the eye candy does it really help your business? I've found booth babes are more about selling the sales man to the boss than selling product to customers.
But I'm certainly open to persuasion.
Ben at March 13, 2017 1:01 PM
Some context as to why the Penny Arcade Expos have been overrun by Social Justice Warriors:
http://virtuallyantifeminism.blogspot.com.co/2013/09/pax-being-raped-to-sleep-by-dickwolves.html
Sixclaws at March 13, 2017 1:12 PM
I'll just leave this here.
https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/13/booth-babes-dont-convert/
Janet C at March 14, 2017 3:37 PM
> "Aggressive Display of Cleavage"
> would be a great band name.
We should try to come up with the names of the songs on their greatest hits album.
Okay, maybe we shouldn't.
Crid (No More Dronekills) at March 14, 2017 7:44 PM
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