Contest is pulled after hours of backlash
The startup OnePlus recently launched its first smartphone, the One, and to deal with production issues it's been letting people buy them by invitation only, slowly offering them to more people as more are produced. It's a weird system, and today OnePlus began supplementing it with a horribly conceived and deeply sexist contest that allows women to jump the line if they're willing to have a bunch of internet dudes vote on their appearance.
OnePlus is hardly the only member of the tech industry that's making a lack of respect for women so pervasive, but this is a truly blatant, bad, and public example of it. OnePlus has received a few submissions so far, but it's received about as many fake submissions from guys Photoshopping OnePlus logos onto womens' bodies as it has actual submissions.
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