Pretty gross, but rather par for the course for those kind of party fliers. They're constantly being shoved under my dorm room door and littered around campus.

Did they ever think that maybe the office ho IS the CEO?

And yeah, that's all I've got. Coming up with intelligent analysis of this seems like an exercise in futility, sigh.

Faith: These are special VIP badges. They'll get you into places other tourists never see.

Homer: Miss, what does the `I' stand for?

Faith: Important.

Homer: Ooh. How about the `V'?

Faith: Very.

Homer: Oh. And Miss, just one more question.

Faith: Person.

Homer: Ah... What does the `I' stand for again?

Holy graphic design fail. All those fonts are making my eyes bleed.

That flyer is wrong on so many levels.

A couple friends had one of these parties in college. Pretty gross - women are sluts (even when they dress up in "suits" it's the slutty version at these kinds of parties) and men are the ones in charge.

Well, look at it this way... Usually the parties are something like Golf Pros and Slutty Hos, meaning guys dress silly but covered up, and girls dress slutty. At least this one is giving women two options, classy and convservative (CEO) or slutty (ho).

This is a common frat party theme (at least at my alma mater). Along with Pimps and Hos and Ho Down.

To combat this one of my friends dressed up like a garden hoe.

I'm most disturbed by the blatant misuse of apostrophes.

Is this McFaddens in Pittsburgh at the North Shore? If it is I already have an extreme girlcott on with friends and myself because of another event...

If it is the same bar one evening a friend of mine was lifted and put onto a bar by *security* to dance against her will. I was not there at the time, but her and her husband spoke with someone, not sure how it was resolved. Needless to say we have never been back, and we tell everyone we know not to go...I bet it is the same bar :/

anyone have contact info?

UGH. There are always parties at UConn with the similar title of 'Corporate Ho's and CEOs'.

Gross.

I especially love the "Drink specials to stimulate more than the economy." So ridiculous.

Holy horrible photoshop stretching. Even barbie isn't this disproportionate.

My dorm had one of these parties, but the guys were the "office hos" and the women were the CEOs.

I was on student council at the women's college I attended. We were planning a Seniors Bar Night, and one of the councils from the affiliated co-ed university wanted to theme it "Pimps and Hos" (or something of comparable originality).

Yada yada yada, I vehemently objected when I heard the plan, and one of my fellow councilmembers said, "Yeah, you're right, it's pretty stupid. I'll talk to the others and make sure it's changed."

A few days l8er, I gets me a facebook invite to said event, of which the theme is none other than "Secs and Execs" -- complete with buxom, leggy white chick in fishnet stockings, sucking on her sexy-nerdy wannabe-smart-girl glasses real seductive-like.

It was kind of outraging, but mostly just interesting (?) to see how in this girl's (and everyone else's involved) mind, "white-ifying" the overt sexism somehow made it less offensive, or not even sexist at all.

I remember being shocked when I first heard of a tarts and vicars party in Bridget Jones Diary. I guess it seems more ridiculous when its old british ladies instead of drunk college students.

The Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity on my campus had a party last year with this same thing. The sad thing is, it was one of the most successful and many of my friend's were asking me if they looked "slutty enough" to go to the party.

I'm in the goddam marching band and all the parties STILL have "hoes" in this titles. I asked my friend to be more creative (since he lives in one of the major party houses) and he told me it wasn't up to him, that he knew they were dumb. and I stopped going to most of them (except in protest, when i dress up as the "male" counterpart or not at all.). G.I. Joes and Barbie Hoes was thrown by female friends.

In addition to looking at this one-dimensionally as blatant sexism (a legitimate perspective, to be sure), one can add to that perspective the viewpoint of irony.

Sexists are not having an easy time remaking their minds over to include women as full adult agents in our society, and women too are unsure of what form liberation and agency ought to take (as evidenced by the smorgasbord of opinion about what women's freedom agency liberation feminism etc mean and look like). Throw in the cultural sexual tensions that exist between puritanism, libertinism, feminism and queer theory, and you've got yourself a pretty volatile mix. Using irony is an effective and non-violent way to diffuse the tension and uncertainty that inevitably arises from a power shift in any society, and to come to terms with it..

By recalling unsavory and sexist relations in a theme-based party environment, the hosts are (at least hopefully) "bracketing them off" from "real" reality. It is a fantasy engagement that hopefully ends when the party ends.

Of course there's the rub, and the danger. I'm no modernist, and I know that the relation between fantasy and reality is a complex one. But all power transfers are dangerous. I trust that we, as feminists, don't expect a simple "Doh! Boy were we wrong about women! We're so sorry-- here, please, accept this respect and social power as a gesture of our apology for thousands of years of patriarchal domination." Reaction is bound to happen. But with the cultural tools of irony, humor, parody, etc, the reaction can be tempered, contained, and dealt with in a way that does not harm people either as individuals or as a social group.