No, and I'm glad you brought that up because lots of people have a fundamentally flawed concept of equality. You don't balance out equality by doing things that might alienate the other gender, you just try to make smarter decision in the first place.
Also, you need to realize that most of the discussion in this thread has very little to do with this specific situation and a lot more to do with the IGDA party or just how women are excluded in work functions in general.
I think there are two different discussions going on now in this thread. I completely get that in the workplace, hell yes everything does need to be equal. You need equal pay, rights, benefits, ability to rise within the ranks, yes.
But in this particular thread we're talking about a party, (IDGC or this one) and why it's bad to have attractive women dancing at said parties. One party I can sorta see why it may have been in bad taste even if still, it's a party and they weren't stripping.. But this one, it makes no sense at all to get worked up because some attractive women showed up and danced and entertained.
I think what happens is there is this tidal wave of righteous indignation going on with woman's rights in the gaming and entertainment industry as a whole, and it's tainting people's views of reality and making them see ghosts when there are none and getting worked up over every little thing. And they are not seeing that this is a party, not in an office but a actual party. And to me it's just really getting worked up about the wrong thing and focusing on issues which will ultimately take AWAY from the main issue at hand; namely equality in the workplace.
Instead we have threads like these with people questioning other people's humanity for now being as outraged.
There's some basement virgins in this thread just praying a hot dancer sees how they stood up them on the Internet.
And lol come on dude you really need to come better than that. The whole "internet nerd loser" meme was old five years ago. But i'm sure you'll get your Goofy ass guy badge for making goofy comments eventually!! just keep making them!!!