I have another video share today. But before you watch it, place a pillow on the ground. That way, when your jaw hits the floor, it won’t hurt.
Ladies, what year is it? I thought it was 2009: the year women surpassed men on the national payroll, the 21st century, an era when having lap dancers at work was not okay.
I must be wrong. At a recent company event, Yahoo offered lap dancers as entertainment. The gathering was Open Hack Day in Taiwan, an event were developers get together to foster creativity. While most of the images and videos from the event have been removed from the web, Adam Lindsay at www.alt.posterous.com still has footage. (Link shared via a Creative Commons license.) The event was made up of “mainly” male developers. Can you imagine what it was like for the women in attendance?
Granted, Yahoo has offered an apology (not a quasi-Pepsi-type-apology-either) which you can read here. But I, for one, am sick of bad behavior followed by the obligatory sorry statement. Let’s just lose the bad behavior to begin with.
Back in my corporate days, the men were careful enough to pull this crap off site. There was my charming coworker at one company who would take his lunch break across the street at a “gentleman’s club” everyday. His regular order: a cheeseburger and a lap dance. I always tried to schedule our meetings in the morning. I was too creeped out to spend my afternoons with him.
And then there were my guys at the next job. After our management team dinners (I was the only woman on the team) they would bid me goodnight and head over to the strip club. Annoying? Slightly. Just how much can a woman bond with the team when the bonding involved dollar bills and seedy night clubs? Infuriating? Yes, when they EXPENSED their night out.
Update: and speaking of Pepsi. They pulled the Amp app.
I couldn’t even watch the entire video. I am so sick of women / girls being percieved as “sex objects,” and I get especially pissed when we spur this notion on by giving men lap dances and accepting programs like Toddlers and Tiarras. In many cases, women are helping this along and damn it, I am angry as hell about that. Why do women feel as if they need to continually please men by acting like whores? What is going on here?