>"it's not 1950 anymore; the PR blow-black has the potential to be truly brutal."
For that particular party, there definitely wasn't blowback because the next morning, everybody talked about how amazing it was. I think it caught everyone off guard because it was unexpected and it gave attendees happy memories. (Yes, maybe the attendees should have been morally outraged but I can only report how they actually responded and at that time, they thought it was a huge hit.)
It's been 17 years so maybe that company doesn't hire party models anymore.
>"This is horridly objectifying and super awkward."
That's a valid opinion but just to paint the picture better, the women were not dressed up as "Playboy bunnies". They were wearing regular shorts and a themed tshirt showing no cleavage. The interactions with the models would be similar to a kid interacting with Mickey Mouse at Disney. Also, there probably were male models on roller skates as well but I don't remember them for obvious reasons.
>>"it's not 1950 anymore; the PR blow-black has the potential to be truly brutal."
> For that particular party, there definitely wasn't blowback
PR is bigger than just internal opinion. Witness: this article.
> The interactions with the models would be similar to a kid interacting with Mickey Mouse at Disney
Oy
> the women were not dressed up as "Playboy bunnies". They were wearing regular shorts and a themed tshirt showing no cleavage... Also, there probably were male models on roller skates as well but I don't remember them for obvious reasons.
At least we all eventually agree that the obvious is obvious.
>PR is bigger than just internal opinion. Witness: this article.
This particular article has an extra angle about models pretending to be friends of employees at a company party. I wasn't endorsing that.
I was relating a somewhat related story about models at a software conference. However, they were not pretending to be in relationships with anybody. They were there to be hosts with bubbly personalities and to schmooze the crowd.
>Oy
I was not exaggerating. The conference models were not there to show skin; they were there to socialize. The conversations (regardless of it being artificial and scripted from the models) are not of a sexual nature. It's lightweight platonic chatting designed to loosen up the crowd.
Here are some videos showing the Disney character Garcon at the park. Not every Disney actor's face is hidden behind a mask:
Clicking on some of those videos should give an idea of how the models interact with guests. The men that Disney hires for that work are all beautiful male specimens. (Women would typically categorize them as "hunks" or "beefcakes".) However, the purpose is not for girls/daughters/mothers/women to grab their crotch or act out Magic Mike[1] fantasies. The Garcon actor is there to be funny and provide smiles.
The Garcon models are not allowed to exchange phone numbers with the park guests. There is no "let's meet up at Cinderella's castle" secret rendezvous after they show off their one arm pushups. So, if the women at the park don't get to engage with sexual foreplay at the park with Garcon, why does Disney only hire attractive men? Oy indeed.
The models at the software conference did similar work to the Garcon actors at Disney theme parks.
The reason you don't see public-relations blowback about the beautiful models at Disney is the same reason you don't see it about models at industry conferences.
On the other hand, the Bloomberg article about "models pretending to be friends of employees" is a whole different level of weirdness.
For that particular party, there definitely wasn't blowback because the next morning, everybody talked about how amazing it was. I think it caught everyone off guard because it was unexpected and it gave attendees happy memories. (Yes, maybe the attendees should have been morally outraged but I can only report how they actually responded and at that time, they thought it was a huge hit.)
It's been 17 years so maybe that company doesn't hire party models anymore.
>"This is horridly objectifying and super awkward."
That's a valid opinion but just to paint the picture better, the women were not dressed up as "Playboy bunnies". They were wearing regular shorts and a themed tshirt showing no cleavage. The interactions with the models would be similar to a kid interacting with Mickey Mouse at Disney. Also, there probably were male models on roller skates as well but I don't remember them for obvious reasons.