Ink Public Relations’s tacky, sexist, and hetero-normative messages in the green room at SXSW INk Public Relations put these sexist shit cards for speakers in the green room. The cards were scattered all over each table. The last piece of advice was completely offensive. “A speech should be like a women’s skirt: Long enough to cover the topic, yet short enough to be interesting.”Anetv writes on twitte: “tech-centric venues wonder why they’ve trouble recruiting women? & ppl wonder why young girls feel that tech isn’t “for them?” Violet Blue also noted the same thing and wrote a wonderful blog post about Ink Publiciy’s tip cards.I wrote about this in my SXSW roundup: (by Tricia Wang 王圣捷)

Ink Public Relations’s tacky, sexist, and hetero-normative messages in the green room at SXSW

INk Public Relations put these sexist shit cards for speakers in the green room. The cards were scattered all over each table. The last piece of advice was completely offensive.

“A speech should be like a women’s skirt: Long enough to cover the topic, yet short enough to be interesting.”

Anetv writes on twitte:

“tech-centric venues wonder why they’ve trouble recruiting women? & ppl wonder why young girls feel that tech isn’t “for them?”

Violet Blue also noted the same thing and wrote a wonderful blog post about Ink Publiciy’s tip cards.

I wrote about this in my SXSW roundup:

(by Tricia Wang 王圣捷)

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