MIGS party will be a total sausage party

Like someone on the IGDA Women's SIG said, this is going to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. The ad for the Microsoft and Ubisoft sponsored event for the MIGS conference is...pathetic.

I've already written to Alliance Numérique, Microsoft and Ubisoft about how I feel. And now I'm going to jump on my little blog soapbox and rant to the faceless internets as well.

Fine, people in the past may have complained that MIGS parties are sausage fest. So what should you do? Try to attract more women? Oh no! You do something that will turn off any female attendees!

I can't imagine that the poster is going to attract a lot of females, since it's obviously aimed at lonely men who crave the attention of women. It's not aimed at people who want to network, it must be an event for people who are looking to get a little out-of-town action. Lonely guys, who need women to be hired to pay attention to them.

It really sounds like the party is going the "hired guns" route, getting models or something to make the party look more attractive to lonely men.

And how does that make me feel as female attendee? Well, for one, I'm not very likely to attend the event now. As much as I would love the opportunity to network with people, I dread several all-too-likely situations...

The guys who have taken the poster to heart and when you try to strike up a conversation they say "Alright! MIGS really came through, this isn't a sausage party after all!"
My credibility being in doubt, because when I say I'm a game designer, people will think that's just my acting classes paying off while I'm on the job.
Being judged by people who wonder if I'm just being nice and talking to them because I'm a hired gun.

How on earth could any of that sound like something anyone wants to go through? I can't be taken seriously if people think I'm just there as eye candy? It puts me in an uncomfortable and creepy situation.

I would really have hoped that the industry could be past this kind of attitude by now. So much for encouraging women to get into the industry!