The conference policy is aimed at speakers who wish to spice up their technical presentations with pornography to get attention/notability/approval from the audience and game the system. The same way a car sells better when the TV ad also features a scantily clad woman, or music album sells better when the music video features scantily clad women.
Depending on the crowd, this tactic is likely to strongly alienate a few people and work as intended with many more.
If a company's recruiting/sales is based on an image of "brogrammers", this is just a marketing tactic.
I don't know anything about the talk at that conference. Possibly, this is a case of overly general wording and lack of common sense. It is up to the organizational committee to decide whether something is only going to offend the prudes and should be allowed or whether it's really unprofessional and morally bankrupt and should not be allowed. Context and delivery matter. People in charge should have the courage to make a judgement and not hide behind wordage in lists of rules.
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Re: A different perspective..
Date: 2012-10-29 11:01 pm (UTC)Depending on the crowd, this tactic is likely to strongly alienate a few people and work as intended with many more.
If a company's recruiting/sales is based on an image of "brogrammers", this is just a marketing tactic.
I don't know anything about the talk at that conference. Possibly, this is a case of overly general wording and lack of common sense. It is up to the organizational committee to decide whether something is only going to offend the prudes and should be allowed or whether it's really unprofessional and morally bankrupt and should not be allowed. Context and delivery matter. People in charge should have the courage to make a judgement and not hide behind wordage in lists of rules.