The company only got in trouble after it posted Hack Day winners and photos from the event on its Yahoo Developer Network blog.

Commenters there laced into Yahoo, calling the company sexist. One, going by the named Sherri, put it this way:

Thanks Yahoo Taiwan for taking down the tech community several more notches. 2009 has been a banner year for sexist behavior in the tech community and this event is a prime example.

Interesting to note that this sunny, upbeat recap does't bother to mention the strippers and lap dances. Is it somehow supposed to make it "ok" because this Hack Day was in Taiwan and they just have "cultural differences" to the rest of us? Were there some "Hack Boys" to entertain the handful of female programmers who showed up?

Thanks for sending the signal that women are just fine at tech events so long as they are scantily clad and know how to dance... on a man's lap.

Flickr cofounder Caterina Fake, who sold that business to Yahoo, added on Twitter:

@Yahoo, for shame : http://flic.kr/p/78btX1 I’m frankly disgusted.