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> If they were going to a strip club, sure. But they weren't These girls were not stripping. Is it so hard to tell the difference between dancers and strippers

> If they were going to a strip club, sure. But they weren't These girls were not stripping. Is it so hard to tell the difference between dancers and strippers ? But your point illustrates the hypocrisy of those who feel outraged. Basically labeling any girl that works in the night industry as whores or prostitutes. if you look at the photos, plenty of people were enjoying themselves, women included : http://theralphretort.com/microsoft-dancers-outrage-culture-gdc-3019018/ http://theralphretort.com/microsoft-dancers-outrage-culture-... (scroll down) only a tiny minority felt it created "an hostile environment". Well maybe these people shouldn't have attended a party in a nightclub, because that's the purpose of this kind of place. Go to a bar nearby if your goal is to network, you can't really make deals in a place with loud music. People use the argument that "it wasn't professional", well that's the point of a nightclub. I don't get this generation of people outraged at anything mildly "sexual", yet never shocked by the day to day violence of our society, video games included.

mpweiher 11y ago
Maybe the people creating the 'hostile' environment weren't the people enjoying themselves, but the people being...hostile?
tptacek 11y ago
Here's a good rule of thumb for adjudicating whether dancers at professional events are in-bounds --- --- ok, first, a good rule of thumb for dancers at professional events is, don't have dancers, but, anyways --- --- if you HAVE TO ASK whether they're strippers, even if on a message board the answer seems straightforward, then, no, not a good idea. See? Not too much to figure out.
- spriggan3 11y ago
  > --- if you HAVE TO ASK whether they're strippers, even if on a message board the answer seems straightforward, then, no, not a good idea. Only puritains cannot tell the difference between a stripper and a dancer.

mpweiher 11y ago

Maybe the people creating the 'hostile' environment weren't the people enjoying themselves, but the people being...hostile?

tptacek 11y ago

Here's a good rule of thumb for adjudicating whether dancers at professional events are in-bounds --- --- ok, first, a good rule of thumb for dancers at professional events is, don't have dancers, but, anyways --- --- if you HAVE TO ASK whether they're strippers, even if on a message board the answer seems straightforward, then, no, not a good idea. See? Not too much to figure out.

spriggan3 11y ago
> --- if you HAVE TO ASK whether they're strippers, even if on a message board the answer seems straightforward, then, no, not a good idea. Only puritains cannot tell the difference between a stripper and a dancer.