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The Woodwork » Blog Archive » Amsterdam — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:06:43 +0000

[...] Haha. Respect! Me: I had some orange on so I kept waving my big orange Netherlands hand and jumping up and down every time someone honked. [...]

By: Joost

Joost — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:49:14 +0000

The shirts were free? Maybe they needed a big sign: FREE T-SHIRTS. That usually gets the blood of the Dutch flowing

By: Chris Shiflett

Chris Shiflett — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:36:59 +0000

The booth babe phrase doesn’t seem to be a cultural or translation issue. That’s a moniker typically applied to attractive women who staff booths at conferences, the (disrespectful) reference being that they have little more to offer. (We also no not use babe to refer to a man.) Describing a man as a booth babe seems a casual way to bring attention to the issue of respect. It’s a role reversal. If booth babe were a respectful, gender-free moniker, you wouldn’t receive weird remarks. In other words, I think it’s working.

I wear my booth babe shirt with pride.

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Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:03:51 +0000

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By: Ligaya Turmelle

Ligaya Turmelle — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:28:12 +0000

Thanks Ivo for letting us know about the problems with the shirts for PHPWomen. Guess we just hit one of the cultural differences that was bound to happen at some point with an international group. We will work on a custom design for th next Dutch Conference that hopefully will be more acceptable to the Dutch attendees. Hmm – wonder how ‘male eye candy” for the back of the booth babe shirts would go over – though your idea for s/babe/hunk has merit as well.