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Yahoo Offered Lap Dances At Hack Event

Fotograf writes "Yahoo's latest embarrassment seems like a sign that the company is just trying too hard to be cool. The latest debacle is earning the company some additional publicity. After Yahoo hosted Taiwan Open Hack Day, a special event for engineers and developers that was held last weekend, a series of photos found their way onto the internet — as ill-thought out decisions often do. Yahoo offered lap dances to the attendees of the hack event. Since the pictures have come out the company has decided to apologize."

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  1. work benefit by roman_mir · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I seem to always pick the wrong place to work, look at those benefits!

  2. Re:Well I guess its bad... by Belial6 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You live in a fantasy land. The number of women that do not sell sexuality, if not actual sex is in the fractions of a percent.

    And, yes, you are a prude. When you start claiming that the only way women could enjoy strippers is if rationalize away their principals, you are the very definition of prude.

  3. Re:as they would say on FARK.. by BitZtream · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Gay men are men.

    And they still have hormones and like nudity, perhaps not nude women, but nudity all the same.

    Men loyal to their girlfriends and wives are men.

    And they still have hormones and like nudity, you aren't fucking the strippers, they didn't get blowjobs, this is little different than watching BayWatch.

    Men who don't take strange women's clothes off are men.

    No, they aren't. Thats where I draw the line. Hormones and hundreds of thousands of years of evolution put you squarely in the wrong category on this one.

    Well, okay, a gay man might not want to take a womans cloths off, but thats a technicality, they'd be happy doing the same to a sexy man.

    I've been put in this situation before and there was nothing I could do except play the game and shove money down her pants. The stripper knows it and she exploits it. Next time I encounter an event like that, I'm telling my coworkers to have fun, I'll walk straight out and tell the organizer to fuck off.

    Awe, did you get a hard-on or something and get embarrassed? You could have left the first time, you didn't, you are playing a victim. Good luck finding anyone who cares. You weren't raped, you could have left, instead you pretend you wanted too, but couldn't. Your wife may believe that shit, no one else does. Sorry if you were among the small group of people who didn't enjoy it, the world, thank god, does not revolve around you. Everyone can't be pleased all the time, nor are you for some reason entitled too. You should have got someone to take pictures of the chains holding you down and the people forcing you to put money in her nickers, then I might believe your bullshit, probably not, but its a possibility.

    Stop with the high and mighty bullshit, you aren't, and everyone can see through it. I guess you totally understand the culture in the country where this occurred? And you know for a fact that it is just like the culture in what ever prudish, sexually repressed area you live in?

    Its disrespectful to men

    Oh go fuck yourself, I'm so sick of people playing that card.

    Disrespectful WHY? I don't like pizza, is going to PizzaHut for lunch disrespectful to men as well? Get the hell over yourself, the world doesn't revolve around you or your pansy ass. Perhaps if you grew some balls and started acting like a man rather than whining about a situation that really wasn't that bad then people would treat you like a man, otherwise you'll continued to be treated like a pussy by your coworkers.

    You command respect. You are not entitled to it.

    You wouldn't be in Yahoo!'s management, clearly, and judging by your reaction to this, I doubt you'd make it as a manager over any large group of people. When something like this makes you cry you just won't cut it. A man would have said 'No' if he didn't want to stuff money down the strippers pants, he wouldn't do it then whine about it later.

    Real men speak via their actions, not their words. Of course, real women do too, but thats not the point since you wanted to clearly focus this on how you, as a man, were hurt.

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  4. Re:as they would say on FARK.. by bluefoxlucid · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Fred Phelps is also distinctly Catholic and seriously needs to listen to the pope some time. Not kidding.