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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMicrosoft Hired Women In Tiny Catholic Schoolgirl Outfits For a Game Developers Conference Party
Not. The. Onion.
http://jezebel.com/microsoft-hired-women-in-tiny-catholic-schoolgirl-outfi-1765738873
GDC is a massive four-day event, and womens inclusion in tech and gaming is, as you may have heard, kind of a hot topic right now. Microsoft owns Xbox. So by all means, why wouldnt you hire women in highly sexualized outfits to appear at your industry event?
Partygoer Kamina Vincent, a producer at an Australian games studio, tells Jezebel via email that when she arrived, the women were immediately noticeable, in that no one else was dressed like an erotically-awakened Catholic schoolgirl:...
Vincent tweeted (and later deleted, because she hadnt gotten their consent) photos of the women. She also left the party fairly quickly: Decisions like these reinforce that women are decoration instead of a part of the industry.
noretreatnosurrender
(1,890 posts)lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)The cost of living in the SF Bay area is the highest in the nation.
And the people who hired them used that fact to their advantage.
Skittles
(152,967 posts)grown men getting excited over women wearing schoolgirl outfits
Rex
(65,616 posts)All that is missing is the bra hats. What did you expect? Class?
Archae
(46,262 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Either one is dumb as hell, but I think they were trying to appeal to the "bros" who go for that anime stuff--those look like costumes you'd see at a ComiCon.
When I was in Japan some of those cartoons used to come on in the afternoons on TV, and it was just not appropriate after school fare--very sexist, very insulting, degrading, etc. The oversexed young girls were constantly being harassed by the male students who would chortle like morons. It was just some offensive shit.
I don't quite get the appeal of it--it reminds me of those giant eyed drawings that were popular in the seventies...some of the most hideous dreck I've ever seen!
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Sexist, maybe, but hardly stupid.
MADem
(135,425 posts)I said anime in the body of the message. And sorry, sexism in anime IS stupid. Sends a very bad message.
davidn3600
(6,342 posts)A lot of women dressed up in cosplay and revealing or sexualized outfits. It's par for the course when dealing with those kind of conventions.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Really? Catholic Schoolgirls? How 1980s, did they get permission slips from their mommy's to attend the party?
Stop looking at her naughty parts.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Alas, the glass ceiling is in the foyer.
csziggy
(34,120 posts)From the link in the OP:
Microsoft is doing so many things right on this issue, she says. They instituted mandatory unconscious bias training this year. Their Hololens team has a ton of extremely skilled women engineers. They are working hard to be part of the solution. This undermines all that great work. Id like to see accountability from the Xbox marketing team.
Emphasis added by me.
Maybe they need to have mandatory CONSCIOUS bias training!
Jim Beard
(2,535 posts)He quite that job long ago.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)And they continue their bad decision making streak.....absolutely shameful.
TipTok
(2,474 posts)On the list of things to get outraged over, this is towards the bottom.