Striptease Heats Up Global Warming event..

[BlueStorm]

Apparently the event delegates didn't like it...

http://www.comcast.net/news/international/index.jsp?cat=INTERNATIONAL&fn=/2006/09/08/472009.html&cvqh=itn_globalstriptease

SYDNEY - A saloon-style striptease at an Australian government-sponsored conference on global warming left some scientists and government officials hot and bothered.

The show was cut short and organizers issued an apology after some delegates at the Australia and New Zealand Climate Forum's dinner in Canberra walked out during what was intended as a lighthearted break from the weighty business of rising temperatures.

"The most that any of the girls get down to is vintage lingerie, which is corsetry and stockings," Gale told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio on Friday. "It's not like we were doing full nudity and simulating sexual acts or anything like that."

But some in the audience objected to the Wednesday night show in Australia's old Parliament House, and the dance troupe was asked to stop about 10 minutes into a 45-minute routine, Gale said.

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[SteppingRazor]

1. I'm amazed matcom didn't post this in the Lounge n/t

[bobthedrummer]

2. Well, when our planet is being destroyed and truth supressed

nothing like another distraction.

[grizmaster]

3. Is it just me, or is it getting hot in here

:rofl:

[lukasahero]

4. Does it never occur to these people

that women may actually be in the audience these days?

The problem with the Australian government doing this - at a government sponsored event - is the ever present assumption that the audience is male.

[Lisa]

7. true -- I've noticed an increasing number of women at conferences ...

I've been studying climate change, off and on, for about 2 decades now. And even back in the 1980s, at least a tenth of the people in the modelling and field data collection efforts were female. The proportion seemed to increase as more impacts researchers (ecological, economic, social) got involved. There is a lot of climate research being done under CSIRO in Australia, and if the organizers try to claim that they "didn't realize" there might be women there, that wouldn't be at all credible.

Women in the sciences have often had to deal with unpleasant things (ranging from guys coming into their work areas and posting porn to taunt or even intimidate them), to outright sabotage of their work. Luckily things seem to be getting better (being able to issue a complaint, without automatically being branded as "oversensitive" or "a troublemaker", for example). There are even support organizations for women in the sciences and resource management fields. But the higher up and more formalized it is in the system, the more difficult it is to do anything about it.

[jilln]

5. "girls"??? was this kiddie porn??

Whoever organized this event was just reflecting current culture, in which women are still not worth the same as a man. If it were men stripping, would they have called them boys??

[BlueStorm]

6. That is so true...

I think if I was a member of that audience I would have walked out as well.

I never could understand why women in most societies are seen as nothing but sex objects, I mean it's infuriariting to me.

Blue