Timeline of incidents
From Geek Feminism Wiki
This is a timeline of sexist incidents in geek communities including:
- Technology industry
- Free and open source software
- Gaming
- Comic Book Fandom
- Science Fiction Fandom
- ... and more
See Timeline of geek feminism for the development of geek feminism itself.
(Mary Gardiner explains the reason for this list in Why we document on the Geek Feminism blog.)
Contents |
[edit] 1982
- Custer's Revenge (rape simulation game) released
[edit] 1988
[edit] 1989
[edit] 2000
[edit] 2001
- Wives of Hackers panel
- LISA hooters girls - see Randal Schwartz
- Stonehenge OSCON parties (first reported incident)
[edit] 2003
[edit] 2004
- 2004 Debian elections
- Ubuntu Warty visual theme
- March: Debian IRC sexism
- May (and ongoing): Ubuntero gendered name
[edit] 2005
- January: Lawrence Summers sexist remarks on women in science
- Debian and LinuxChix harassment by MikeeUSA begins
- (approximate date) Go Daddy's advertising begins on television, with an ad featuring Candice Michelle during the Super Bowl airing in 2005
[edit] 2006
- Harlan Ellison groping Connie Willis
- September: Telsa Gwynne announces the closure of her diary and her withdrawal from Open Source, due to the unpleasant environment and online harassment among other factors.
- December: Acme::Playmate talk
[edit] 2007
- Slender PMWiki "Female syntax" thread
- Linux Journal blowjob ad round 2
- Puppy Linux death threats and massive resulting fail
- Mary Jane laundry statue
- January: Reiser fans harrassing women at LCA2007
- March: Kathy Sierra incident
- April: Web2.0 Expo Spock.com lingerie model slides
- May:
- August: "even included some wives" thread on Ubuntu Marketing
[edit] 2008
- January: Dragonborn Boobs in D&D. Immense internet argument! (Gaming)
- February: An Obstacle for Women in the IT Industry blog post (Technology industry)
- April:
- May: Wiscon troll incident (Science Fiction Fandom)
- July:
- Debian and LinuxChix harassment receives press coverage (FLOSS)
- Planet Fedora up-skirting photo (FLOSS)
- RubyFringe offers girlfriend daycare (FLOSS)
- Linux Symposium 2008 closing talk (FLOSS)
- Fat Princess (Gaming)
- November:
- December: Valleywag insults Pownce founder (Technology industry)
[edit] 2009
- February:
- March:
- April: CouchDB talk (FLOSS)
- May:
- June:
- July:
- EMACS virgins joke (FLOSS)
- DEFCON comic strip incident (Hacker culture)
- This IS your father's Readercon (Science Fiction Fandom)
- Phoronix Foodstruments (FLOSS)
- Stonehenge OSCON parties (again) (FLOSS)
- RealmsFail and resulting Harlan Ellison backlash (Science Fiction Fandom)
- Game Boy Bondage (Gaming))
- EA booth babe bounty (Gaming)
- August:
- Manthology incident (Science Fiction Fandom)
- FSF mini-summit on Women in Free Software announcement and LWN thread (FLOSS)
- SurveyFail (Media Fandom)
- Sony make phones for women (Technology industry)
- September:
- Mark Shuttleworth at Linuxcon (FLOSS)
- (and ongoing) Geek feminism harassment by MikeeUSA
- October:
- November:
- December:
