I can kinda see the argument of them being a bit cringe when they have nothing to do with the game.
If they're actually cosplaying characters from the game then that's different, but if there's just like nothing at all about them that has anything to do at all whatsoever with the game then I think it's a bit cringe.
And I love '' fanservice ''.
For example someone cosplaying as 2B for a Nier Automata booth would be okay imo but someone just wearing a bikini with a sign saying '' buy Nier Automata '' would just be kinda wtf.
Per usual tho it ended up being about erasing women instead of just adding men.
I don't think it's sexist just to have people in skimpy outfits there, and I think that selling with sex is perfectly fine I think it's pretty insane how you can sell with extreme levels of gore but if you even so much as hint on sexuality then suddenly it's '' problematic ''.
I can however see how it comes across as a bit eh when it's ONLY women.
I think they should just add men too instead of removing them women.
Same with cosplay as '' booth babes '', you can have hot male cosplayers too.
I think that'd be perfectly okay.
I mean I really doubt that if in a booth they had a bunch of fake blood etc that people would start going on about how '' problematic '' it is, if violence is okay then sex should be okay it's far less bad lol.
But yeah per usual I think the conversation just gets lost on '' women showing skin bad ''.
There is an argument to be made that they have nothing to do with the game and I can agree with that argument.
But if it's relevant to the game and characters from the game whether male or female I think it'd be totally fine.
You mean it was a job with downsides, like every job in the world, they got paid.
I agree with your overall sentiment, but I still think it wasn't the point he was making.
Just because you're hired to be a model doesn't mean make it okay for other people to creep on you.
They're not being hired to get creeped on and have men grope them or try to hit on them, they're basically just hired to look nice and draw attention to the booth.
It's like people who make excuses for guys who grope women at Hooters, women working there are not hired to get groped.
Obviously part of the job will be that people will look at you, and maybe it will make you uncomfortable if some unattractive dude checks you out but that's part of the job.
Having that guy make sexual comments towards you and breeching your boundaries however is not.
This is just how it works in every other aspect of life with this.
Just because a woman wears skimpy clothes isn't an invitation for a bunch of random gross guys to start sexually harassing her.
Some people just refuse to accept this but any sane and normal adult understands this it's only on the internet you get a bunch of contrarian bullshit about this.
The whole '' she's asking for it '' doesn't belong in a developed nation that's some third world bullshit and reeks of sexual assaulter.