[wpietri]

If a workplace is seeking diversity, I think there's also something problematic about a very alcohol-driven work culture. The Geek Feminism wiki points out a number of problems with an alcohol-focused event:

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Women-friendly_events#Alc...

One thing that was hard for me as a guy to learn is that women can reasonably see all guys as Schrodinger's Rapist:

http://kateharding.net/2009/10/08/guest-blogger-starling-sch...

If one is continually performing the "will I be safe" calculus, alcohol clearly increase risk. Much more so at a party whose whole purpose is getting smashed, and which has strong connotations of college sexual dynamics.

[bcg1]

I'd DDoS your up arrow if I could. I'm not a woman... but after discovering that I have a severe allergy to alcohol I don't drink at all anymore and there is no way I would feel comfortable attending an event that was so focused on drinking. On top of that, even as a man I would feel unsafe in such an environment... unfathomable to me how it would feel if I was a woman.