badgenome on 29 March 2013
| Mr Khan said: It's actually quite heartening to see the game industry confronting this. |
See, I can understand someone feeling this way about the IGDA thing. Even though I'm not sure that was exactly sexist, it was pretty inappropriate for the setting because that group represents developers, including female ones.
But this was Mojang's private shindig. Notch is claiming they didn't pay anyone, and it's not inconceivable that girls who don't know or care anything about games would be there to see Skrillex or just to party. But even if they did pay them, so what? No one was harmed or "otherized" in front of her colleagues.
