[outside1234]

I'm asking a serious question. Is it not possible to be smart beautiful and have fun at a rave party?

My experience is mostly with the JavaScript community where there are many smart beautiful people of both genders that have fun. Should we only show photographs of the males?

If so, isn't that sexist?

[lucideer]

It may be a strawman but as there is such a disturbing prevalence of similar comments on this thread, a response:

Yes it is possible to be beautiful and have fun at a rave party, whether you are a beautiful male or a beautiful female (or otherwise). However, were these two peopel selected at random or were they hired, dressed and asked to pose specifically for their looks and gender? I don't seriously believe that you think its the former - you're not naïve, just combative.

[the_hangman]

While I'm not saying they were chosen at random, the photos were from the TechWeek Miami event. They've been on TechWeek's Facebook page without any sort of problems since March.

[sp332]

If you made this invitation, how would you decide which pictures from the last event to choose? I'm curious because if it were me, I would want to show (as I wrote elsewhere in the thread) that women were included and had a good time, just like these photos.

[hitchhiker999]

There is indeed a tendency to go over board, and end up with the equally disgusting polar opposite. We're not there yet.

For now, we probably just need to nip it all in the bud, at least until we've grown up enough to handle sexuality without using it as a form of gender oppression.