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the comment about short skirts was probably unnecessary. It certainly didn’t lend anything to the story except pointing out something that, to me, doesn’t mean much culturally or ethically.

A lot of young women in TW dress like that. Because it’s fairly normal (of course, influenced by whom and what?), it shouldn’t need to be mentioned as egregious.

I find that a lot of people get alarmed, blog, and don’t bother to look into the rationale and psychology of why things happen, why people make certain decisions, etc.

In this case the Yahoo group doesn’t have a chance to justify anything, because, you’re right – it’s lap dancing, and it’s dirty and has seedy connotations and we’re all more civilized than that here in tech world.

But if you bother to look into youth culture in Asia (and even here), you’d find that gogo girls are standard accoutrement at the big clubs. Hell, just go to a TW club for the patrons.

This event was a Hack Day, obviously targeted at (but not limited to) young people. The use of the word “Hack” presumes an association with youth/hipness/cool-ness/rebellion. I can see how the organizers (a small, young, local group, probably) thought it would be a good spectacle to bring some girls out in an attempt to make it fun and titillating/exciting. because geeks there are different.

But yes. you wouldn’t see that here because too many people would get fussy about the lack of professionalism. “Leave that for the Comic conventions, and the EEE” right?

What if this was that local organizing group’s attempt at mimicking a vibe of EEE? [shrug]

Or, maybe they just got it wrong. ‘Hack Girls’ could’ve been executed to what they may have envisioned, with ‘good girls’ as Hosts/Brand Ambassadors, welcoming people into Developer world. But in the fast game of event planning, they had to settle for girls who only know the traditional form of.. the laptop.

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Anyway, I just came here to comment about that one short skirt remark. the pictures weren’t that risqué and it was what, two girls being themselves? the fact that you were surprised made you seem.. i don’t know.. older. the ‘ruh roh’ is cute like zOMG, so i’ll subtract some.

maybe in general you are a little on the tongue in cheek, tech mom style, i’ll have to read more from you.
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OR, did they take down all the pictures, and I’m the one that’s late to the finger pointing? if that’s the case then I feel silly.

maybe this is what makes TW Hack Day fun.

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what’s wrong with a dance? these poor slobs probably never get anything close to that in real life

who are we/you/ and any of the politically correct hypocrits to judge?