I find it interesting that you think of women dancers as nothing but sexual objects for male enjoyment. I suppose a lot of it is place and context, but those women in the picture definitely do not look like sexual objects to me, they look like women in pretty party clothing who are dancing and having fun.

As a side topic, I also find it humorous how scared we USA citizens are of the human body and how its depiction without full clothing must always be purely sexually undermining (if it's a female. If it's a male's body, then its sexual empowerment, I think. I don't quite understand how it works).

I doubt it's the female form or the cloths that upset these woman. It's the context of it. I don't see woman dancers as only sexual objects. I'm saying that that's what these woman felt was being depicted. They put woman up on a stage to do a sexy dance. They didn't put a dancing troop on the stage with men and woman dancers. They put sexy girls in sexy outfits for men to ogle at. That's what I think the professional woman were offended by and that's what I can empathize with.

Is this the most offensive thing every to happen in the world? No. Do the offended woman have reason o be offended? Yes. I think they are entitled to be sensitive about the subject of equality since they still are fighting for equality.

Nobody is forced to go to a professional game designers' event so they can be as offensive as they want and if people don't like it they can avoid it.   A professional rap album for professional music critics including explicit lyrics using women on stage for men's listening pleasure.  The women critics didn't know it was going to happen and even if they did it would still offend them to know that their industry still views women as sexual objects even after decades of fighting for equality.

To say they are over sensitive is to be insensitive or at the very least shows a lack of empathy.

In other words your arguments are inconsistent and quite frankly terrible.

Then Brenda Braithwaite shouldn't have gotten so angry. Maybe they were just paying tribute to her contribution to video game design.

on parties you try some stuff to make it a good party which often includes professional or half professional dancers to get a better mood and to convince other people to go on the dance floor or just to have fun. yes those dancers don't wear jackets and you see the legs but i seriously know no woman who feels offended to see  professional dancers dancing on a party (yes also parties for a specific industry or parties where dancers have much less on them). if a woman feels offended by seeing those dancers she has to have serious problems with herself and not because it's so bad for someone who isn't interested in it.

do i feel offended if i see a professional guy dancing on a party? no, i just don't care for him and i'm happy for those who like to see him dancing. hey most like to see him dancing on this party and he is contributing for a better party with people going faster on the dance floor? great that he is there then!

other people can't stand someone who drank some alcohol, should we stop selling alcohol on the bar now because some don't like people who drink it but they have to see and even smell them then on the gdc party?

it's not as if that is in a conference room, it's the gdc party which probably includes a small dance floor and stuff.

Hear, hear!

lol, that's just childish.

What's next, "I know you are, but what am I?"

i volounteer to scantilly clad dance with them to couneract for this terrible axt of sexism