OnePlus Cancels Its Dumb Contest Following Uproars Of Sexism
J Thoendell stashed this in Tech
Source: http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/12/oneplus...
If you want to get more women involved in your community, throwing the equivalent of a sketchy online beauty contest and labeling it “chivalry” probably isn’t the way to do it.
Fledgling smartphone maker OnePlus learned that lesson this morning. Just hours after launching a contest that encouraged women to draw the company’s logo on themselves and snap a selfie so that others could vote on the “50 most well-liked ladies”, the company has shut it all down.
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5:45 PM Aug 12 2014