Yahoo Apologizes for ''Hack Day'' Lap Dancers

[safcmanfr]

[citation][nom]Jockeee[/nom]safcmanfr 10/21/2009 12:36 PM:Well, what job have you chosen?I bet don't even have a job...I bet you sit in your mom's basement watching porn all day.And you certainly don't have a girlfriend or a wife or a daughter. Because then you would very well understand what I mean.[/citation]

actually I have a job in IT - thats computers to you (project management to be precise) - I'm 25 years old, I have a wife, and plan to start a family in a couple of years.

oh and i started my job after university with a $60k a year salary.

What do you do ?

 

[safcmanfr]

nelson_nel 10/21/2009 1:51 PM :

Job description is different, but both are respectable jobs so they are the same in that sense.

@ Jockee,

Nope, you're not conservative, cos prostitution is the oldest profession in the world and it sure sounds like you wont be ok to protect that! (I think it should be legalised so it can be controlled and stop young girls from being forced into it, If the women does it by choice, well thats HER choice).

I would say you were a prude, anti-femininist (against the sexual liberation of women), and a stuck up hypocrite*.

If I was a stripper/lap dancer on here i would be extremely offended by your comments. They are both respectable jobs, as long as it is the womens own personal choice.



*cos you cant tell me you never looked at porn before. (not that i expect you to admit it).

 

[jabliese]

So, go to a developer convention. Get pulled up on stage in front of everybody. Have some woman who does not care whether I'm alive or dead tomorrow try to get me aroused.

On what planet does that sound like fun? Tell you what, gentlemen, try going into your office and acting like Yahoo did. Let me know how the sexual harassment lawsuit turns out.

 

[NegativeX]

More pics/vids or GTFO!

😉

 

[megamanx00]

No don't apologize, just send me those hack girls ^_^. Seriously though, people being so offended by this that Yahoo had to apologize seems a little ridiculous. Now I could understand if they were doing it naked, not that the straight guys would complain but some women would most certainly be offended 😀, but this gesture was simply made in good fun.

 

[Camikazi]

[citation][nom]jabliese[/nom]So, go to a developer convention. Get pulled up on stage in front of everybody. Have some woman who does not care whether I'm alive or dead tomorrow try to get me aroused.On what planet does that sound like fun? Tell you what, gentlemen, try going into your office and acting like Yahoo did. Let me know how the sexual harassment lawsuit turns out.[/citation]
Yea cause this is the FIRST AND ONLY TIME something like this has happened at a convention. Just an FYI, this is NOTHING new, conventions are 1 for info and 2 to get away and have some fun, this does happen, it's just now there are more ways to get video and pics out there and get caught. Yahoo does not feel bad about this, they only apologized cause they got called out on it, that is all.

 

[gmcboot]

Boy am I old (grin). I am far from prudish, but this was a stupid idea on many fronts. First of all, it is inappropriate and has little to do with anyone liking sex or not. This idea came from the mind of someone who still thinks like a 14 year old. It wasn't a porn convention, or stripper convention, it was about developers. The only think that lap dance was suppose to develop was wood... no coding involved.

Secondarily, for all the guys on here that want to tell women that stripping, lap dancing, and prostitution are good solid respectable professions. Then encourage your sisters, daughters, wives and mothers to go for it. Save yourself a lot of money and tell your daughters to forget about college and get on the Pole. It's respectable and empowering .. right?

If it is such a good marketing idea, go into your bosses office right now and tell him you want lap dancers for you next company meeting. Go tell you fellow female employees the same thing. Better, go tell your female boss that you want lap dances at your next company meeting. Go get a few dances at lunch and put it on your expense report and explain at how appropriate it is. Go look for a new job.

This isn't about equality of sex. If it was, they would have had male strippers up there for female attendees. You can fool yourself and your friends by the water cooler by saying how cool this is. Fool yourself into thinking that paying a woman for sex is somehow a feminist thing to do (I am still laughing about that one).

I'm a guy and god knows I love to have a good time, but this was stupid and inappropriate for this venue. If they wanted lap dancers and strippers then they could have went out AFTER the convention, like most adults do.

 

[Camikazi]

[citation][nom]megamanx00[/nom]No don't apologize, just send me those hack girls ^_^. Seriously though, people being so offended by this that Yahoo had to apologize seems a little ridiculous. Now I could understand if they were doing it naked, not that the straight guys would complain but some women would most certainly be offended , but this gesture was simply made in good fun.[/citation]
I think the female friends I know are either odd or people makes things out to be worse then they are, my female friends are the type to be up on the stage getting the lap dances from those girls, fun to hang with anywhere, maybe I just attract the fun ones *shrug*.

 

[ssalim]

Lap dance isn't bad, what are they complaining about. Sheesh.

 

[captmorganarr]

Wow, I must be old fashioned, but beautiful dancing women will always be a winning combination in my book.

 

[eyemaster]

Totally appropriate, if you ask me... The only problem is they didn't offer any male lap dances for women.

 

[jellico]

[citation][nom]Jockee[/nom]cyberkuberiah 10/21/2009 12:47 PM:You're calling ME conservative?To me the word "conservative" means someone who wants to conserve old and existing values and morals. Now, do you think that men's exploitation of women is a new thing? Do you think it's a liberal thing? In my opinion, YOU are the conservative one here! I consider it conservative to continue oppressing women like men always have for hundreds of years....and for the record: I DO have a wife and I've had lots of girlfriends in my life. I really think that it's onkly geeks that have to pay for a girl to give them attention. And I also have a daughter. I don't want her to grow up in a world were the female body is a merchandise. It's as simple as that.[/citation]
The word, "exploitation" implies that women are taken advantage of without mutual benefit. This is certainly not the case here. Those women probably made more money in a few hours of work, than most people do in a week (and for some people, a month!). So where is the exploitation? No one is forcing them into that line of work. In fact, to be any good, they actually take classes on various forms of seductive dance. How is that any different than those of us who take classes on network security or VLSI design? Most people work jobs that they really don't like... are they being exploited?

And, honestly, what business is it of yours anyway? What someone does with THEIR body is THEIR business. I personally think people should be able to sell themselves, or even pieces of themselves, if they so choose. You cannot legally sell one of your organs, but you can give it away. And in death, your organs can be harvested to the financial benefit of many others. Isn't that a greater form of exploitation?

I think the world would be a lot better place if people (and governments) would just mind their own damn business and stop trying to control everything and everyone around them.

 

[tester24]

Wow if they were complaining about they have to have their "man" card taken away (I say this joking).

On the subject of a job, at least these people have jobs and are not sitting on their asses collecting a check because they are too fat, lazy, or don't want to work for a living.

 

[Parrdacc]

Okay, I see why Yahoo issued their apology and under the circumstances rightfully so. I personally see nothing wrong with this, it is not like they forced anyone to watch or take part in this particular activity. From what I saw the dancers did not remove their clothing, at work right now so cannot actually go and fully see if they did or not so going on some pics and info presented here, and that is by far not the kind of laptop dance one associates with term "lap dance". Do not let the term dictate your perception of what actually happened.

 

[cookoy]

politics, religion, morality -- we can sit here all day and argue and we will end up where we started. These involve personal convictions, values, beliefs. So i'll skip my 2 cents contribution.

For Yahoo, apologizing is a good first step. Hope you follow through and give those girls some scholarship on Web programming or something.

 

[ta152h]

I don't know what planet people are from when they say these are respectable jobs. Do you have any sense of respectable? They aren't even allowed in many areas, because it's considered degenerate behavior. It's not a respectable job to most people. If it is to you, just ask yourself if you would mind if your wife or daughter did it, how you'd feel.

For a nude bar, it's expected, but you shouldn't expect it when going to a trade show of some type. It's just not appropriate.

Also, anyone that gets a thrill from this is kind of weird. It's fake. They aren't really attracted to you, and don't really want to dance for you. If this still does it for you, you're so detached from intimacy, that you should probably work on that part first.

Like most things, nudity and fake sexuality gets boring pretty quick. If it doesn't stimulate the mind, it's just not going to hold any interest for long.

I never really thought that highly about Yahoo, but this type of thing shocks me. Not that lap dancing is so bad, it's just that they wouldn't know they'd get a reaction to it. Who's running the show there? Hmmmm, they have a female CEO now right? Bizarre.

 

[santeana]

Woah woah woah!!! hang on... now... let me get this straight. They had an "Open Hack Day". As if that weren't cool enough... they had Lap dances!!
.....and you're telling me... people bawked at this?
I don't get it. *scratches head* What, did they hold the conference at some old ladies' bridge club or something? Sounds like any nerds paradise to me!!

 

[ph3412b07]

That's just the culture in Taiwan, although this tops the Computex Taipei experience

 

[rajaton]

[citation][nom]virtualban[/nom]It was for training concentration under any circumstance, like in 'swordfish'.[/citation]

I don't think it went THAT far...never know though...and as always, will they play crysis???

 

[ravewulf]

I'd rather have a male lap dancer, but that's just me