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Uh huh. I'm OK with Microsoft not wanting to show off something like this, but there's nothing to apologize for. It's up to the company to decide what kind of an event it wants to have and what kind of a message it wants to send with that. I'm sure the dancers weren't strictly necessary, but I'm also sure they contributed to the event and provided some entertainment value. Whether that's what was intended or appropriate is another question.

Just for the record, I'd be OK with male dancers too. Of course their presence should be considered based on the expected audience. For example, if it's mainly a straight male audience, it might be a good idea to have female dancers but not male dancers. But if there's a significant portion of straight males and straight females, it doesn't sound like a terrible idea to have dancers of both sexes. (Or genders. I don't think either word is 100 % appropriate here.) And conversely, if there's mainly straight females, I don't see any issue in having male dancers only. Pardon my exclusion of sexual minorities and people with a non-binary gender, including them would have overly complicated an already overly complicated point. >_>