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A few creepy pictures of the female gender there. Do they want even less of those participants?

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/08/sexual_harassm...

My first observation was that, of all the pictures containing women, pretty much most of them were focussed on their arses.

I don't like the feeling that women are an attraction at these types of event. It's like, "OMG there are women here! Make the most of it, because this hardly ever happens!" Then everyone whips out the camera because the sight of another gender doing things is somehow surprising.

A second look through the images and I agree, almost every picture of a woman is focused on her bottom, with the exception of one at the bottom which is focused instead on the bosom.

And of all the pictures containing standing men, pretty much most of them are focused on their breasts or backsides. On the nerdomat photo the photograph clearly took a position where the pixel man points his fingers to the crotch of the guys standing there.

The photos in the bottom 1/3 of the page reverse the trend. Guys from the back, women from the front and side. I think it balances out actually.

Dear white knight fuzzy dunlop,

You might be reading too much into these photos. There are some photos of women from the front and some from the back. In those cases you have decided that the photos are of their breasts or butt. I think this says more about you than the photos. From what angle should the photos be taken?

Thank you latj for pointing this out, so i didn't had to :)) like you were reading my mind!

It was an observation, not a detailed analysis. This would suggest that I quickly scanned the page, came to a similarly quick conclusion, and posted about it. We might call this 'reactionary'.

It would not suggest examining the minutiae of every picture to determine whether or not they were more concerned with the female form than the event itself.

It would then stand to reason that my observation could be inaccurate. My mini-rant is still free to stand though, since I've noticed that personally, even if it's not sexually oriented.

That picture of the Facebook recruiter is also on the main page of http://salon.io/ as the most representative (?!) image of the event.

yeah! think about it!

What exactly is your agenda here? Spamming your site? Questioning the event? Promoting your photos?

My "agenda" is to give you an impression of a big "hacker" event in Berlin and let you decide, what you take out of it. The event is questionable, but what isn't?

BTW: Are you pro or anti fb?

What is the problem with this picture? Am I missing something?

I guess some clarification is needed here. The submitted page is a collection of photos by Stefan Landrock. Stefan Landrock runs salon.io. The submitter "lrock" would be Stefan Landrock (his e-mail address is lrock@...) unless someone is faking. While the account is old, this is the first submission and the first comments.

So I really do not get what this is about. The title sounds like some armchair hostility against ... whom? And people are reading some sexual harassment into the photos and blame the event instead of the photographer?

You unlocked the sherlock badge!

Were pictures removed? Because I don't see any creepy pictures.

No, nothing was removed.

Site looks like it's struggling now, but when I looked there didn't seem to be many so maybe someone was paying attention and pulled them.

The focus of the one taking the pictures hasn't to be the same as the viewers one.

But who's "they"? Were these pictures taken by some official member of the party?

they were taken by a regular visitor who got a free VIP ticket and had to provide all his personal data including macbook serial number and biometrical photograph

What is the difference between VIPs and regular guests?

Not sure. I got a nice badge and were allowed to enter the camping area even if you don't camp!

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