hula-hooping

Either way, hula-hooping and watching said-hula-hooping is hard to claim, on its face, as being gender-discrimination.

But the point is that hula-hooping, or shirtless weight-lifting, shouldn't be prohibited just because some people gawk and others are made uncomfortable.

I mean, seriously, it's marvelous: you jump from hula-hooping to identifying social angst in Julie's life in two sentences.

Out of context, maybe the hula-hooping is harmless.

The second thing, about hula-hooping, without context, it doesn't really mean anything beyond what Horvath claims she was able to grok just by stumbling upon the scene.

Horvath felt male co-workers gawking/staring/looking at female co-workers hula-hooping while sitting in a couch looked like someone visiting a strip club.

> But the point is that hula-hooping, or shirtless weight-lifting, shouldn't be prohibited just because some people gawk and others are made uncomfortable.

All it said was they were hula-hooping to some music and the response from the bench-full of male employees was embarrassing.

If those women felt safe enough to be hula-hooping in front of these heterosexual men, then why was Horvath feeling so unsafe?

I think during the original HN discussion, a Githubber said that the hula-hooping happened during an in-office party.

If you want to sexualise hula-hooping or weight-lifting, fine, just don't use that point of view as the basis of a complaint.

All the allegations seem to disappear once we hear more details: - The hula-hooping seems pretty innocuous.

Replace "hula-hooping at a party" with "showcasing their assets" and even you should be able to figure it out.

> is this "hula-hooping at a party" the best evolutionary strategy to obtain that goal?

As far as we can tell, the women doing the hula-hooping were doing it for fun/exercise with no sexual intent, and the men watching just thought it was entertaining and not sexual." Exactly.

And what is it exactly that they want if they hope to achieve it with this colorful behavior (I once heard that human females may want a stable male partner to help rear their young; is this "hula-hooping at a party" the best evolutionary strategy to obtain that goal)?