So.. Scantily Clad Women at the IGDA Party Made The Industry Freak Out.. Sexism Again?

[mantlepiecek]

WereKitten said:

mantlepiecek said:

 

"A few memebers mentioned gay male dancers... and yeah if gay guys were dancing shirtless and making out.... the majority internet community would lose their collective shit over it... and most developers would be bitching about it because it made them feel uncomforable during an imporatant networking event."

OK now. Proof please. Prove it that the female dancers were not just dancing at the GDC. Because all I have seen about it is people complaining about their clothes. Nothing else.

"Put up with women we paid to perform being objectified or lose out on an important networking oppurtunity."

lolwhat. You seriously think that is what was going through the people's mind when they organised the particular event?

He's not saying that the girls were making out.

He's saying that if something happened in that supposedly professional environment that was sexually charged and considered uncomfortable by the majority of male heterosexual attendants, we wouldn't have heard "hey, it's just the beauty of human body" or "you can not watch it if you don't enjoy it".

We would have heard a big uproar of "this doesn't belong to a professional meeting" and "why should they do it there? I was trying to have a good time with coworkers and establish professional contacts"

And no, the people that organized the performance did not do so with the goal of excluding people. They offered eye candy to the majority of the audience and cared squat about what the result was for those would feel excluded or forced into an uncomfortable situation. They should be made accountable for what they failed to consider and the conundrum in which they put some of the attendees even if they are not an actively plotting sexist spectre organization.

Female professionals in the tech field often lament having to cope with working in a boys club. Sometimes more like a frat house, it seems, and they feel excluded and lessened.

Again, my point was that it is not sexism, and I get confused when people call this sort of stuff as sexism, because it isn't. I couldn't care less if those people were held accountable or if IGDA should or shouldn't apologize.