People try to find any little thing to bash MS.
Wow - what an over reaction - its as if allot of people never been out with their mates in the pub on a Friday night.
I looked at the link https://twitter.com/laurakbuzz, and quite frankly the person has high cheekbones, an adam's apple and therefore was born and is a male, and looks male.
So I don't get the confusion its pretty obvious, but I guess its hard being Politically Correct gone mad nowadays.
Good headline clicker though
Wow - what an over reaction - its as if allot of people never been out with their mates in the pub on a Friday night.
I looked at the link https://twitter.com/laurakbuzz, and quite frankly the person has high cheekbones, an adam's apple and therefore was born and is a male, and looks male.
So I don't get the confusion its pretty obvious, but I guess its hard being Politically Correct gone mad nowadays.
Good headline clicker though
Wow - what an over reaction - its as if allot of people never been out with their mates in the pub on a Friday night.
You can forgive the "he" part as an honest mistake, but what about "it"? I don't think that's acceptable. Still need more info. Video of the incident would be helpful, but it doesn't seem to be out there.Wow - what an over reaction - its as if allot of people never been out with their mates in the pub on a Friday night.
I looked at the link https://twitter.com/laurakbuzz, and quite frankly the person has high cheekbones, an adam's apple and therefore was born and is a male, and looks male.
So I don't get the confusion its pretty obvious, but I guess its hard being Politically Correct gone mad nowadays.
Good headline clicker though
they hired him. It's their fault. It's not even about video games at this point: You're insulting, ridiculing, and undermining someone in /public./ Get past video games and look at the larger picture.
lmao at people blaming MS for this. How many of the people involved in this actually work for microsoft? I bet every person on the floor just works for a marketing firm.
Must be a typo.
Anyway, I guess Laura meant the ignorant guy that was retweeted along the discussion.
Wow - what an over reaction - its as if allot of people never been out with their mates in the pub on a Friday night.
Try harder next time with your personal offense:The amount of posters who are completely ignorant of this situation is arrogant, stupid, disrespectful, and disgusting.
ms hired him, other ms employees didn't stop it from happening and covered for him afterwards
lmao at people blaming MS for this. How many of the people involved in this actually work for microsoft? I bet every person on the floor just works for a marketing firm.
Dont know how her on-stage reaction is relevant at all.
So, is your argument that this did not happen because there was a separate event celebrating LBGT people?A ridiculous situation, considering how open and accepting MS is with regards to the LGBT community. Certainly this dickbag isn't representative of their policies. to my knowledge, If there is one ing you probably cannot criticize them for, it's being exclusionary of gay and transgender community.
Heh. This came to mind too:
DerZuhälter;84015307 said:C'mon now.. of course it is. You know how comedians are. They usually talk with the people they get on stage. If they had something like a dialogue going on "Hey what's your name?" "Laura" "Wooah. That's a deep voice" "Yeah I'm transgender" "Ah ok. What should I say then? He, she, it?" "Hahaha, whatever you like!" "Okay "it" it is!" Hardy har har Laura not visibly offended. "Okay then we need another real woman on stage" Hardy har har.
Yes since Laura seems quite upset about these we can assume it didn't go that way. But reaction and interaction is definitely relevant.
the staff refused to apologize for his actions or give her his full name
they covered for him, they're responsible
So, is your argument that this did not happen because there was a separate event celebrating LBGT people?
I am confused what the point is here.
DerZuhälter;84015307 said:C'mon now.. of course it is. You know how comedians are. They usually talk with the people they get on stage. If they had something like a dialogue going on "Hey what's your name?" "Laura" "Wooah. That's a deep voice" "Yeah I'm transgender" "Ah ok. What should I say then? He, she, it?" "Hahaha, whatever you like!" "Okay "it" it is!" Hardy har har Laura not visibly offended. "Okay then we need another real woman on stage" Hardy har har.
Yes since Laura seems quite upset about these we can assume it didn't go that way. But reaction and interaction is definitely relevant.
As long as the company makes a forthright apology and takes steps to implement and educate it's employees/contractors on discrimination there is no legitimate reason the persons name needs to be publicly released. Vigilantism is never an acceptable action.
So, is your argument that this did not happen because there was a separate event celebrating LBGT people?
I am confused what the point is here.
You can't predict exactly how a person is. How would they know he would say that when hiring him.
Most of the people you see at events with more than 5 employees are third party people. There will however always be an actual employee present to lead it.A lot of staff at Euro Expo are from third party PR teams. Even the staff she spoke to were probably not directly employed to Microsoft. All the Nintendo staff my friend spoke to were under employment to a third party company. It's common place.
DerZuhälter;84015307 said:Okay then we need another real woman on stage" Hardy har har.
If it's Microsoft's fault, then you may as well move our into the woods in Minnesota and become self-sufficient, because there isn't a multi-billion dollar company in the world that hasn't unknowingly hired people that are hateful or don't think before acting. Boycott everything and live in a hand-built cabin.
So, is your argument that this did not happen because there was a separate event celebrating LBGT people?
I am confused what the point is here.
Yeah, but making fun of other people is the easiest form of comedy, especially if you can embarrass them in front of other people.
I'd like to play Devil's Advocate for a second. While I can understand the anger from people here, I do tend to agree with the old George Carlin school of thought that anything can be made a joke of / made fun of by a comedian. Nothing should be off limits.
No, dude. My assertion is that it is fallacious to consider this representative of Microsoft's policy as a whole, as they have been pretty progressive in terms of the LGBT community.
Thanks for quoting, though!
Here's a brief timeline of how anti-LGBT Microsoft is, just so everyone knows:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/diversity/programs/ergen/gleamTimeline.aspx
Some excerpts
1989
Microsoft is among the first companies to expand its nondiscrimination policy to include sexual orientation.
1993
GLEAM is instrumental in securing domestic partner benefits for GLBT employees. Microsoft was one of the first Fortune 500 companies to offer this benefit.
2010
Microsoft scores 100 on the HRC Corporate Equality Index rating for the sixth year.
Microsoft is listed in the HRC 2010 Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality.
2012
Microsoft scores 100 on the HRC Corporate Equality Index rating for the eighth year.
Here's a brief timeline of how anti-LGBT Microsoft is, as everyone seems to suggest. Lolz
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/diversity/programs/ergen/gleamTimeline.aspx
"we need a woman on stage, any woman"
Try harder next time with your personal offense:
I don't think any company Microsoft's size would ever have a "Fuck this type of person in particular" official policy. It would be more noteworthy if that actually were the policy.
That their official policy differs from what happened with no word since is the story, not that they have done things that may mitigate this action in the past.