With this (edit: and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14346174) you're recreating the very dynamic on HN itself that stories like this describe happening in the workplace, which leave so many of us shaking our heads in disbelief. I don't mean the disbelief of 'that never happens' but the disbelief of 'who does this'. No, it is not "perfectly normal". It's gross and beyond the pale.

Since we just had a whole conversation with you about bad HN comments and the very next day you come out with this, I've banned this account.

You apparently don't work somewhere normal. Hiring strippers and escorts for an office party: not normal.

If you work in the US, you are describing what lawyers will call a 'hostile workplace' when your employers are, based on your description alone, successfully sued for discrimination.

This is not perfectly normal in any professional setting. More and more often, it has real professional and legal consequences.

lol....uh... huh? Is this an elaborate troll?

I would say hiring strippers and escorts for office parties is not "perfectly normal". I don't think that there would really need to be any other representation for that to be viewed negatively.

If your office has a place to sleep, your company is probably taking advantage of you. If it's renting strippers, it's probably a pretty misogynist culture, as well.

Sounds like an exhausting and terrible place to work, frankly.

I guess it wouldn't be misogynist if everyone at the office felt free to hire themselves sex entertainment regardless of gender.

But that's allegedly not the dynamic here.

I am not sure why everyone should feel comfortable with everyone else's choices. Do people think everyone should like the movie that most people are going for ?

How people feel is irrelevant; but based on federal law, the US Constitution, whatever local laws there may be & decades of judicial precedent, what you describe would expose any US employer to an enormous amount of liability. Its not normal or legal--& it can be very expensive.

You should probably just stop commenting at this point.