Emily
The IT crowd is dominantly male, even you admit that, so we like cute girls in police costumes... If there were a significant amount of females that would like to see males "objectified", I wouldn't be offended at all. Might even volunteer to wear a costume, but since women are a minority in this industry, and overall less responsive to these types of tactics, it would be a waste.
*I'm writing too much on this already: but anyway, in advertising women actually respond more to other women, than to men. Open up a Cosmo mag, and count how many "objectified" women there are compared to men. If men are present, often they are sort of in the background, as accessories to the women portrayed.
Anyway, I like the hitachi girls. Lol