BF3 Launch Party and LAN Event in Texas Bans Women

[Shawn Zipay]

Re: BF3 Launch Party and LAN Event in Texas Bans Women

First off, your argument is still completely idiotic. I'm talking about the US Army here because this event and this site are in the US. What other parts of the world do is their own business. Nobody really "bats an eye" here either when a female says their in the armed services. Now perhaps YOU do but based on what you're saying and how you're defending this action here, I don't think anybody would really be surprised to hear it from you. Just because you don't see a problem with them punishing one group and not the other when it was the guys who acted like idiots in the first place doesn't mean there isn't a problem with their stupid asinine and ARCHAIC way of thinking.

You can't say blah blah "I'm against the double standard" but then say it's ok to have this guy's only event, banning women, when it was the GUYS who acted inappropriate in the first case to warrant this idea of a ban. You don't punish the victim and you sure as hell do not punish everyone with a similar trait of the victim because of what another party has done.

But if you want to have nothing but events that are meat lover's pizzas, by all means we won't stop you. The rest of us in the modern era will happily enjoy the mixed company we've come to expect for YEARS now. At least some of us know how to function in civilized society.

[Lordsethonan]

Re: BF3 Launch Party and LAN Event in Texas Bans Women

I'm just saying that in the context of the event; it's not asomething to start getting the pitchforks out.

You'd have a point if this was an state or city endorsed event, and they suddenly made it single gender only.

But it's a private socuety/club event. As far as I'm concerned, what you do in your free time with your own money is YOUR choice. According to you, if I have a lan party I HAVE to invite women? Exactly why?

Now, they are advertising before hand that this year's event will be weenie only; before any female has a chance to mistakingly pay entrance fees or register or something.

You'd have a point, if the event was open to everybody and at the last minute, on a flimsy pretense, they pulled the penis card. Then YEAH, weaksauce. Not like this. This shouldn't be news.

[Shawn Zipay]

Re: BF3 Launch Party and LAN Event in Texas Bans Women

A shame though, because it is news.

Yet again, as I've been saying from the start, they're going about it all wrong and are coming off as complete tools because of it. Punish the victim and let the guilty run wild. Great idea.

[Linux]

I can't stop laughing at this; what a way to make my day even better xD. I'm lulz if this really happens, I'm sure someone is going to be enjoying the sausage party if you catch my drift .

[imported_raidenandsolid]

What they should have done is set up two events, one for male and female. Fact of the matter is is that there are jackwagons out there who will do that. Even if you punish the one who does stand out and kick him out of the event, many others are doing the same thing without getting caught. Personally, the organizers have the say on who they want to include into the event public or not. The way they worded it made it sexist, not the idea of having a male-only event. They could have worded it to make women understand it was a "guys night out" kind of event but instead failed at public relations and ruined whatever chance they had at making it look reasonable. Maybe the organizers were one of the idiots who had a 'mishap' with a female counterpart.

But if you want to have nothing but events that are meat lover's pizzas, by all means we won't stop you. The rest of us in the modern era will happily enjoy the mixed company we've come to expect for YEARS now. At least some of us know how to function in civilized society.

Um... [MyIS]Zips... the civilized society you speak of still holds gender only parties, they just know how to properly word there functions as to not be offensive or insinuate some kind ulterior meaning to the reason for specific gender. Just sayin

[K-16]

Re: BF3 Launch Party and LAN Event in Texas Bans Women

What they should have done is set up two events, one for male and female... Even if you punish the one who does stand out and kick him out of the event, many others are doing the same thing without getting caught. Personally, the organizers have the say on who they want to include into the event public or not. They could have worded it to make women understand it was a "guys night out" kind of event...

It's true that you don't know who else might be that disgusting (possibly while drunk as alcohol is available and included in the price) despite banning the previous offender. So I agree that the solution can be to setup two events, or to increase security as I suggested before, should the cases in past events become that extreme. However, the forum post they did pretty much mentioned the party was a gentlemen's event. In other words, they already did what you claimed was the way to prevent their mistake.

Overall, the question seems to be whether or not this is a private event that received more publicity than what was desired, or if it's a public event meant to compete against other LAN events to claim their share of the player base. The advertising makes it a bit difficult to determine. Of course we could simply fire an E-mail and ask... Or a forum post... If it's a private event, then it's as childish as the clubhouse/treehouse analogy Zips described earlier, but there's no reason to discourage them further as it's their place, their rules. If it's a public event, then there is much reason to do more than frown upon them as it is politically wrong to act in this manner when operating in this kind of a business (public event with exclusions is absolute bull as CptainCrunch said earlier).

[groundedzero]

Re: BF3 Launch Party and LAN Event in Texas Bans Women

Well this is just silly.