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Sexism Is Still a Thing At Microsoft's GDC Party (techcrunch.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the catering-to-the-demographics dept.

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.

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  1. Re: What's the problem? by cyber-vandal · · Score: 1, Troll

    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 Outcompeting these sexist businesses would show the world that any outdated notions of one gender's superiority is nonsense and it would help to increase the pool of female devs for these businesses to hire.

  2. Re:What's the problem? by Pubstar · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

  3. Re:What's the problem? by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

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