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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.
Additionally, as long as everyone involved is an adult and knows what's going on, WHO THE FUCK CARES?
Sure, the men are taking advantage of the women and ogling and treating them as sex objects.
The models in question are BANKING on that. And they know they aren't going to have to actually bang any of these guys. Just pose for pictures, and call security if someone starts groping.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Microsoft must not be allowed to create offense by hiring women and telling them to wear scanty clothing.
They must create offense by hiring women and telling them to wear burkas or ankle length winter coats with hoods!
There shouldn't be any problem with the latter should there?
Yeah, the SJWs don't actually care about people's rights. When they're not telling everyone their dead friends had mental issues, they're trying to force religious leaders to perform marriage ceremonies against their will.
Fuck them.
No. It's not a private party. It's a corporate event where they hired the equivalent of strippers that didn't even get their clothes off - tacky, wrong and just sad.
50% of players are female, and I don't have stats on hand for the number of women involved in development but Microsoft itself has been trying to raise that number.
Surely you can understand the difference between being inclusive and of doing something that actively hurts a minority of the target demographic. I see it as being a lot like smoking. It's your right to smoke if you want to, right up to the point where your second hand smoke reaches someone else's nostrils or makes their clothes stink. That's why, even before the law mandated it, smoking was usually banned at events like these.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
In either case, the phrase "check your privilege" is appropriate.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Women should build their own businesses to ensure that other women who want to be developers have a safe space to work in. Outcompeting these sexist businesses would show the world that any outdated notions of one gender's superiority is nonsense and it would help to increase the pool of female devs for these businesses to hire.
Oh look, that 50% of gamers are women quote. I didn't know that Microsoft was pushing shovelware mobile games now. Look at the target demo that buys the most games. Surprise! Its 18-35 year old males.
You don't seem to understand what that phrase means. I was pointing out that in both cases the speaker seems to be unaware that they are not subject to certain disadvantages or facing certain difficulties that others are.
So I'm actually saying the exact opposite of what you think, and my desire is to see everyone brought up to the highest level.
Honestly, with the frequency that you comment on this stuff your ignorance is shocking.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC