Women in geek communities are sometimes the victims of threatened or actual physical violence, ranging from assault to rape or even murder.
Incidents
Threats
Against geek women
- Kathy Sierra incident
- MikeeUSA's activities:
- Debian and LinuxChix harassment
- Further threats during the 2009 women in FLOSS discussions
Actual physical violence
Against geek women
- École Polytechnique massacre -- 28 women shot, 14 killed, at an engineering school
- Murder of Annie Le -- Doctoral pharmacy student murdered on campus at Yale University
By geek men against non-geek women
- Hans Reiser's murder of his wife