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Sexism Is Still a Thing At Microsoft's GDC Party (techcrunch.com)
An anonymous reader writes from an article on TechCrunch: Microsoft hired a bunch of women wearing very little clothing to dance and socialize with people at the company's official Game Developers Conference after-party last night in San Francisco, Business Insider reports. Phil Spencer, head of Xbox, said in a statement to TechCrunch. "At Xbox-hosted events at GDC this past week, we represented Xbox and Microsoft in a way that was not consistent or aligned to our values. It was unequivocally wrong and will not be tolerated. I know we disappointed many people and I'm personally committed to holding ourselves to higher standards. We must ensure that diversity and inclusion are central to our everyday business and core values. We will do better in the future." What's problematic is that Microsoft chose to throw a party that clearly caters to heterosexual men by hiring women as objects of sex.
They're dancers.
Not strippers.
Not whores.
Yet you'd rather equate them as such.
They serve a social function in driving a party and providing scenery somewhat more appealing than some sweaty 400 lb guy's unwashed ass-crack bulging, dangerously, out of his pants.
If you don't happen to LIKE such accouterments at a party, you don't have to go. You don't have to spend your money with the company.
Whining because your particular proclivities weren't catered to is simply pathetic.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Only if you get similarly pissed off when an event for, say, women, is also considered sexist. Not to mention the hundreds upon hundreds of organizations that cater to women but will not do so for men. And then of course this is all "justified" by lots of doctored statistics that do nothing whatsoever to actually justify gross and blatant discrimination against heterosexual men.
Nothing confirms the gross hypocrisy and racism/sexism of the SJW world more than people like you.