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* [[Comic Book Fandom]]
  
* [[Comic Book Fandom]]
 
* [[Science Fiction Fandom]]
  
* [[Science Fiction Fandom]]
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* Universities
 
* ... and more
  
* ... and more
   
 
See [[Timeline of geek feminism]] for the development of geek feminism itself.
  
See [[Timeline of geek feminism]] for the development of geek feminism itself.
   
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([[Mary Gardiner]] explains the reason for this list in [http://geekfeminism.org/2009/08/19/why-we-document/ Why we document] on the Geek Feminism blog.)
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([[Mary Gardiner]] explains the reason for this list in [https://puzzling.org/politics-and-society/feminism/2009/08/why-we-document/ Why we document], originally on the Geek Feminism blog.)
 
== 1963 ==
  
== 1963 ==
 
*[[The Great Breen Boondoggle]]: Walter Breen excluded from Worldcon as he was judged (correctly) to pose a threat to children.
  
*[[The Great Breen Boondoggle]]: Walter Breen excluded from Worldcon as he was judged (correctly) to pose a threat to children.
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** [[AmazonLISAFail]] ([[Technology industry]])
  
** [[AmazonLISAFail]] ([[Technology industry]])
 
** [[DojoCon thongs]] ([[FLOSS]])
  
** [[DojoCon thongs]] ([[FLOSS]])
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** [https://twitter.com/cfowlermsft Cory Fowler] a Community Leader in Ontario and MVP for Microsoft partakes in online harassment of women by [http://www.thatswhatshetweets.com/users/SyntaxC4/ facilitating spreading of sexual innuendo jokes] and [http://twitpic.com/79mdfe promoting the use of the word brogrammer] as a way for [http://twitpic.com/6m04fa male programmers] to bond an network.
 
* December:
  
* December:
 
** [[Women underrepresented in Modern Science Writing]] ([[Science]]) [http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2009/12/the_science_boys_club_strikes.php]
  
** [[Women underrepresented in Modern Science Writing]] ([[Science]]) [http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2009/12/the_science_boys_club_strikes.php]
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** [[It's Time to Tell Mum campaign]]
  
** [[It's Time to Tell Mum campaign]]
 
** ASCII-Pinup-Girl @sigInt [http://www.geekatwork.de/2010/06/02/vom-gendern-und-asci-frauen/# [1]]
  
** ASCII-Pinup-Girl @sigInt [http://www.geekatwork.de/2010/06/02/vom-gendern-und-asci-frauen/# [1]]
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** [https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Girls+Plugin A plugin called 'Girls Plugin'] featuring images of women in their underwear is added to Hudson. The plugin [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/jenkinsci-dev/$27girls$20plugin$27/jenkinsci-dev/kVIRA6OAi7M/X5IBXmuo0zUJ remained in Jenkins until 2014].
   
 
* June
  
* June
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** [[0xB16B00B5/BIGBOOBS Constant in Microsoft Hyper-V]]: a Linux kernel contributor discovers that the constant used to identify a Linux Guest to the Hyper-V host is "0xB16B00B5"
  
** [[0xB16B00B5/BIGBOOBS Constant in Microsoft Hyper-V]]: a Linux kernel contributor discovers that the constant used to identify a Linux Guest to the Hyper-V host is "0xB16B00B5"
 
** [[Al Billings threats|Al Billings threatens his colleagues at Mozilla]]
  
** [[Al Billings threats|Al Billings threatens his colleagues at Mozilla]]
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**A [[Readercon]] attendee [[René and Readercon|reports René Walling]] to the RC committee. They decide to ignore their zero tolerance policy and ban the offender for two years, citing the need to educate men in how to not harass women. (They later recanted and enforced the policy.)
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**A [[Readercon]] attendee [[René and Readercon|reports René Walling]] to the RC committee. They decide to ignore their zero tolerance policy and ban the offender for two years, citing the need to educate men in how to not harass women. (They later recanted and enforced the policy, issuing [http://readercon.org/publicstatement.htm a public statement and commitment to future actions].)
 
**[[Geek feminist harassment at OSCON]]: several OSCON attendees report harassment by (self-described) members of the geek feminist community.
  
**[[Geek feminist harassment at OSCON]]: several OSCON attendees report harassment by (self-described) members of the geek feminist community.
 
**An offensive tweet was made against the [http://www.pyladies.com/ PyLadies] group at [https://ep2012.europython.eu EuroPython 2012]. Lynn Root (a keynote speaker and founder of PyLadies) [http://www.roguelynn.com/words/really/ blogged] [http://www.roguelynn.com/words/a-memorable-europython-for-the-better/ twice] about the incident.
  
**An offensive tweet was made against the [http://www.pyladies.com/ PyLadies] group at [https://ep2012.europython.eu EuroPython 2012]. Lynn Root (a keynote speaker and founder of PyLadies) [http://www.roguelynn.com/words/really/ blogged] [http://www.roguelynn.com/words/a-memorable-europython-for-the-better/ twice] about the incident.
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* February
  
* February
 
** [[LCA2013 shirtgate]]
  
** [[LCA2013 shirtgate]]
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** At Confoo Conference there was an after party event in which Frédéric Harper sent an email to people via his Microsoft email asking if they would like to attend a strip club. He also asked other women at the conference if they would like to attend.
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** At Confoo Conference there was an after party event in which [https://twitter.com/fharper Frédéric Harper] a tech evangelist for Microsoft sent an email to [https://twitter.com/cfowlermsft Cory Fowler] and other Microsoft Evangelists via his Microsoft email asking if they would like to attend a strip club. He also asked other women at the conference if they would like to attend a strip club as an end of Conference celebration. Cory Fowler under his old [http://www.thatswhatshetweets.com/users/SyntaxC4/ @syntaxc4] account confirmed over twitter that the event happened (in 2014), Cory has since closed that account (associated with other brogrammer issues see 2009)
 
** [http://hackofthesexes.org/ "Hack of the Sexes"], billed as a [https://twitter.com/hackofthesexes/status/299997922051891200 "civic hackathon pinning the boys against the girls"] as well as a "contest to promote innovative solutions to civic problems from the technology and entrepreneurship community in Kansas City", was announced.
  
** [http://hackofthesexes.org/ "Hack of the Sexes"], billed as a [https://twitter.com/hackofthesexes/status/299997922051891200 "civic hackathon pinning the boys against the girls"] as well as a "contest to promote innovative solutions to civic problems from the technology and entrepreneurship community in Kansas City", was announced.
 
** An event in Nashville, Tennessee in the US, [http://sparknashville.eventbrite.com/# "Spark Nashville"], announced itself as featuring "entrepreneurial and tech community patriarchs". In an [https://twitter.com/elizabrock/status/301087744791302146 extensive thread on Twitter], Jared Scheel defended the usage of the term "patriarch" and dismissed women's concerns about it as [https://twitter.com/jscheel/status/301111723723726848 "petty" and "legalistic"].
  
** An event in Nashville, Tennessee in the US, [http://sparknashville.eventbrite.com/# "Spark Nashville"], announced itself as featuring "entrepreneurial and tech community patriarchs". In an [https://twitter.com/elizabrock/status/301087744791302146 extensive thread on Twitter], Jared Scheel defended the usage of the term "patriarch" and dismissed women's concerns about it as [https://twitter.com/jscheel/status/301111723723726848 "petty" and "legalistic"].
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** [[SFF harassment revelations 2013]]
  
** [[SFF harassment revelations 2013]]
 
** [[Anti-Pyladies accounts on GitHub]]
  
** [[Anti-Pyladies accounts on GitHub]]
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** [[Vox Day]]/Theodore Beale [http://amalelmohtar.com/2013/06/13/calling-for-the-expulsion-of-theodore-beale-from-sfwa/ kicked out of SFWA due to racism]. ([[Science Fiction Fandom]])
   
 
* July
  
* July
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** Jennifer Hepler, formerly a senior writer at BioWare, reports that Dragon Age players sent her abusive emails and forum posts, threatening phone calls, and "[http://www.polygon.com/2013/8/15/4622252/plague-of-game-dev-harassment-erodes-industry-spurs-support-groups graphic threats]" against her children.
  
** Jennifer Hepler, formerly a senior writer at BioWare, reports that Dragon Age players sent her abusive emails and forum posts, threatening phone calls, and "[http://www.polygon.com/2013/8/15/4622252/plague-of-game-dev-harassment-erodes-industry-spurs-support-groups graphic threats]" against her children.
 
** Software Developer David Winer of ''Scripting News'' writes a post titled "[http://scripting.com/2013/08/19/whyArentThereMoreWomenProgrammers Why Are There So Few Women Developers?]" in which he concludes that it's because programming takes patience and focus, like hunting.
  
** Software Developer David Winer of ''Scripting News'' writes a post titled "[http://scripting.com/2013/08/19/whyArentThereMoreWomenProgrammers Why Are There So Few Women Developers?]" in which he concludes that it's because programming takes patience and focus, like hunting.
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** Lightspeed Venture partner Justin Caldbeck accused of sexual harassment by StitchFix founder Katrina Lake - who was subsequently [https://www.axios.com/how-lightspeed-responded-to-caldbecks-behavior-with-stitch-fix-founder-2449360633.html prevented from discussing this by non-disparagement agreement].
 
* September
  
* September
 
** [[TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon incident]] A team at TechCrunch Disrupt 2013 presents the TitStare app, [http://valleywag.gawker.com/techcrunch-disrupt-kicks-off-with-titstare-app-and-fa-1274394925 which allows users to post and view pictures of men staring at people's cleavage]. Another presenter pretended to masturbate on stage. TechCrunch [http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/08/an-apology-from-techcrunch/ apologized] for the incidents. In response, [http://valleywag.gawker.com/business-insider-ctos-is-your-new-tech-bro-nightmare-1280336916 Pax Dickinson] , CTO of Business Insider, [https://twitter.com/paxdickinson/status/377097167652937730 expressed his disapproval] of feminism in tech; he [http://www.businessinsider.com/statement-2013-9 resigned] the following day.
  
** [[TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon incident]] A team at TechCrunch Disrupt 2013 presents the TitStare app, [http://valleywag.gawker.com/techcrunch-disrupt-kicks-off-with-titstare-app-and-fa-1274394925 which allows users to post and view pictures of men staring at people's cleavage]. Another presenter pretended to masturbate on stage. TechCrunch [http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/08/an-apology-from-techcrunch/ apologized] for the incidents. In response, [http://valleywag.gawker.com/business-insider-ctos-is-your-new-tech-bro-nightmare-1280336916 Pax Dickinson] , CTO of Business Insider, [https://twitter.com/paxdickinson/status/377097167652937730 expressed his disapproval] of feminism in tech; he [http://www.businessinsider.com/statement-2013-9 resigned] the following day.
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** [[debian-devel-games trolling]] Debian gets trolled into taking a "problematic" work of interactive fiction seriously.
  
** [[debian-devel-games trolling]] Debian gets trolled into taking a "problematic" work of interactive fiction seriously.
 
** [[Brendan Eich Proposition 8 donation|Brendan Eich]] is promoted from CTO to CEO of Mozilla. He resigns after 10 days.
  
** [[Brendan Eich Proposition 8 donation|Brendan Eich]] is promoted from CTO to CEO of Mozilla. He resigns after 10 days.
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** A conference [["sexisme, jeu vidéo et culture geek"]] (sexism, videogames and geek cultur) is held in Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon. (in french) One of the participant tells that she was asked for advice in order to make the new women character in SupertuxKart as right as possible, but her advice were ignored to the point that the character has an upskirting animation.
 
* April
  
* April
 
** [[Gurbaksh Chahal domestic violence conviction]]
  
** [[Gurbaksh Chahal domestic violence conviction]]
 
** [[CodeBabes.com]]
  
** [[CodeBabes.com]]
 
** Cherry City Comic Con [http://www.strongandfree.org/cherry-city-comiccon-turns-refund-request-into-pr-disaster/ shames a woman] for requesting a refund because she felt she would not be safe at the con.
  
** Cherry City Comic Con [http://www.strongandfree.org/cherry-city-comiccon-turns-refund-request-into-pr-disaster/ shames a woman] for requesting a refund because she felt she would not be safe at the con.
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** Attendee assaulted (with fists) in elevator by conference organizer, sparked initiative to create a code of conduct in European open source graphics software community which previously believed it didn't need one. Sponsors were notified, Valerie Aurora assisted with excellent advice. Code of Conduct voted on but not yet posted publicly as of 07/2015. Event occurred at Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany. [http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2014/ Libre Graphics 2014]
 
* May
  
* May
 
** [https://twitter.com/mappingbabel/status/463493163743576066 Booth babes make an appearance at the EMCWorld conference]
  
** [https://twitter.com/mappingbabel/status/463493163743576066 Booth babes make an appearance at the EMCWorld conference]
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** Obie Fernandez, the CTO of [http://www.javelin.com/#team Javelin], posted a [https://twitter.com/obie/status/491384651705892864 tweet] comparing node.js to "fucking a 20 year old". ([https://twitter.com/obie/status/491384651705892864 Screenshot of tweet].)
  
** Obie Fernandez, the CTO of [http://www.javelin.com/#team Javelin], posted a [https://twitter.com/obie/status/491384651705892864 tweet] comparing node.js to "fucking a 20 year old". ([https://twitter.com/obie/status/491384651705892864 Screenshot of tweet].)
 
** [[Cosplayer assault at San Diego Comic-Con]]
  
** [[Cosplayer assault at San Diego Comic-Con]]
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** [https://twitter.com/cfowlermsft Cory Fowler] [http://www.meetup.com/seaphp/members/?op=leaders assistant organiser of Seattle PHP User Group] is involved in a series of Domestic Abuse incidents involving Legal intervention and assistance from Seattle Police. The matter was deemed to be of a Domestic and Family Court nature and was handled with consultations from Seattle Police Domestic Violence department and legal representation on behalf of the victim.
 
** Madison Young, a member of the steering committee for [[Mothership HackerMoms]], [http://geekfeminism.org/2014/08/06/madison-young-rape-apologism-and-hackermoms/ engaged in] [[derailment]] when a rape-apologist video she had made resurfaced.
  
** Madison Young, a member of the steering committee for [[Mothership HackerMoms]], [http://geekfeminism.org/2014/08/06/madison-young-rape-apologism-and-hackermoms/ engaged in] [[derailment]] when a rape-apologist video she had made resurfaced.
   
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** [[Michael Lopp rape apologism]]
  
** [[Michael Lopp rape apologism]]
 
** [[Defamation of Zoe Quinn]]
  
** [[Defamation of Zoe Quinn]]
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** [http://valleywag.gawker.com/one-woman-finally-calls-out-a-tech-investor-for-creepy-1623490558 Pavel Curda], a prominent venture capitalist, sexually harassed entrepreneur Gesche Haas at a startup networking event. (This occurred in July; Haas reported it in August.)
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** [http://valleywag.gawker.com/one-woman-finally-calls-out-a-tech-investor-for-creepy-1623490558 Pavel Curda], a prominent venture capitalist, [http://www.businessinsider.com/angel-investor-pavel-curda-apologizes-for-sexual-messages-2014-8?IR=T sexually harassed entrepreneur Gesche Haas] at a startup networking event. (This occurred in July; Haas reported it in August.)
 
** [[Darren Wilson GoFundMe Campaign]]
  
** [[Darren Wilson GoFundMe Campaign]]
 
** [[Gamergate coordinated harassment campaign]]
  
** [[Gamergate coordinated harassment campaign]]
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** [http://tcrn.ch/1AkqvoN OnePlus One's "Ladies First" Contest]
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** [http://s2014.siggraph.org/attendees/art-gallery/events/modern-video-processor Modern Video Processor] An art piece at a computer graphics conference features video of scantily dressed women bouncing as they use power tools.
 
* September
  
* September
 
** David Galiel, an advisor for ChickTech, perseverates about strawfeminst women who are [https://twitter.com/davidgaliel/status/512008879245647872 "aggressive, harassing dicks]" on Twitter. Bonus fedora/trilby.
  
** David Galiel, an advisor for ChickTech, perseverates about strawfeminst women who are [https://twitter.com/davidgaliel/status/512008879245647872 "aggressive, harassing dicks]" on Twitter. Bonus fedora/trilby.
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** [[Uber executive smear threat]]
  
** [[Uber executive smear threat]]
 
** The incompetent portrayal of Barbie in [[Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer|''Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer'']] is discovered.
  
** The incompetent portrayal of Barbie in [[Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer|''Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer'']] is discovered.
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** [http://etiene.net/paris-coders-night-incident/ Paris Coders' Night incident]
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** [http://etiene.net/6/paris-coders-night-and-liam-boogar%27s-complete-dismissal-of-women%27s-issues Paris Coders' Night incident]
 
** Harassment incident at Context ([http://www.jimchines.com/2014/11/harassment-at-context/ Jim Hines roundup])
  
** Harassment incident at Context ([http://www.jimchines.com/2014/11/harassment-at-context/ Jim Hines roundup])
 
* December
  
* December
 
** [http://valleywag.gawker.com/zillow-accused-of-subjecting-female-employees-to-sexua-1665833391 Valleywag reports that real estate startup Zillow is being sued by a former employee] for sexual harassment that the the former employee compares to "sexual torture."
  
** [http://valleywag.gawker.com/zillow-accused-of-subjecting-female-employees-to-sexua-1665833391 Valleywag reports that real estate startup Zillow is being sued by a former employee] for sexual harassment that the the former employee compares to "sexual torture."
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** Social media startup Sportacam [http://www.arcticstartup.com/jobs/2349 solicits for a backend developer], saying they want someone who's "totally gay for code" and listing job perks that include "Making it rain on them hoes." After being called out on Twitter, they [https://twitter.com/Sportacam/status/542469127815065600 doubled down with a mansplaining non-apology] and claimed their offensive behavior was acceptable because [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Sexist_humor it's just a joke].
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** Social media startup Sportacam [http://www.arcticstartup.com/jobs/2349 solicits for a backend developer], saying they want someone who's "totally gay for code" and listing job perks that include "Making it rain on them hoes." After being called out on Twitter, they [https://twitter.com/Sportacam/status/542469127815065600 doubled down with a mansplaining non-apology] and claimed their offensive behavior was acceptable because [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Sexist_humor it's just a joke]. As of April 2015, [http://www.startus.cc/job/back-end-senior-developer-cto?render=slim Sportacam has not removed the job advertisement].
 
** [[Kiwicon 2014 expulsion]] of two speakers for transphobia and other code of conduct violations in their talk.
  
** [[Kiwicon 2014 expulsion]] of two speakers for transphobia and other code of conduct violations in their talk.
 
** [CW: suicide] Ruby developer and [https://teamgaslight.com/people/doug-alcorn co-founding partner] of software consulting firm [http://gaslight.co/ Gaslight] Doug Alcorn's 17-year-old daughter Leelah Alcorn, a trans woman, committed suicide. In her [https://web.archive.org/web/20150102024359/http://lazerprincess.tumblr.com/post/106447705738/suicide-note suicide note], she blames her parents for refusing to acknowledge her gender and for forcing her to go to reparative therapy in an attempt to make her cisgender.
  
** [CW: suicide] Ruby developer and [https://teamgaslight.com/people/doug-alcorn co-founding partner] of software consulting firm [http://gaslight.co/ Gaslight] Doug Alcorn's 17-year-old daughter Leelah Alcorn, a trans woman, committed suicide. In her [https://web.archive.org/web/20150102024359/http://lazerprincess.tumblr.com/post/106447705738/suicide-note suicide note], she blames her parents for refusing to acknowledge her gender and for forcing her to go to reparative therapy in an attempt to make her cisgender.
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** <span>A person with an androgynous appearance was [http://cryptic.be/cccpee.html hassled when entering the men’s bathroom] at Chaos Communication Congress 31. Signs for gender neural bathrooms were torn down.</span>
   
 
== 2015 ==
  
== 2015 ==
   
 
* January
  
* January
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** Milo Yiannopoulos (a leader of the [[Gamergate coordinated harassment campaign]]) published an [http://www.donotlink.com/d8z1 article] disclosing personal details about tech culture critic Shanley Kane's past romantic relationships; the article was reposted by [[Valleywag]].
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** Milo Yiannopoulos (a leader of the [[Gamergate coordinated harassment campaign]]) published an article disclosing personal details about tech culture critic Shanley Kane's past romantic relationships; the article was reposted by [[Valleywag]].<ref>[http://www.donotlink.com/d8z1 DoNotLink access to the article]</ref>
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** The [[Feminist Software Foundation]] trolling continued, with a [http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/01/toleranux-satirical-linux-fork-mocks-calls-for-open-source-diversity/ phony operating system project] called "ToleranUX".
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** The [[Feminist Software Foundation]] trolling continued, with a phony [[Straw-feminist]] operating system called "ToleranUX".<ref>[http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/01/toleranux-satirical-linux-fork-mocks-calls-for-open-source-diversity/ ToleranUX: Satirical Linux fork mocks calls for open source diversity on ArsTechnica]</ref>
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** [http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/18/plaxo-co-founder-charged-with-murder/ Plaxo co-founder Minh Nguyen] was arrested for the murder of his ex-wife's husband.
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** Plaxo co-founder Minh Nguyen was arrested for the murder of his ex-wife's husband.<ref>[http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/18/plaxo-co-founder-charged-with-murder/ Article on Tech Crunch]</ref>
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** ZeroFox gives a talk entitled ''Mascots, March Madness & #yogapants: Hacking Goes to College''which discusses various means of social media exploitation, while emphasising "''well-endowed'' women," and many mentions of "yoga pants" leading to audience cheers and yelling "when do we get to the yoga pants" and similar.<ref>[http://www.zerofox.com/news/zerofox-researchers-present-shmoocon-2015/ Presentation abstract on ZeroFox]</ref> Speakers, when contacted on twitter, insisted that they were presenting an objective view on soft exploits ("[[Market appeal|the reality is social media attacks involve sex & food as targeting ]]"<ref>[http://i.imgur.com/rC2D9L7.png Screen cap of correspondence on Twitter]</ref><ref>[https://twitter.com/ZeroFox/status/556855925848670210 ZeroFox Twitter status]</ref>) and denied any wrongdoing. <ref>[http://www.iamit.org/blog/2015/01/sensationalism-doing-more-damage-than-good/ Sensationalism – doing more damage than good] (opinion essay on I Am Security)</ref><p>Harassment ensues<ref>[https://twitter.com/infosexbitch/status/556881701788745729 link to deleted Twitter status]</ref>, and the person who raised the issue was chased off Twitter by people directed to her by blog posts<ref>[http://theprez98.blogspot.com/2015/01/hacker-cons-and-speech-codes.html Hacker cons and speech codes] on MikeBlog</ref>, et cetera.</p>
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** [[Jace Connors car crash]]: Connors, known as a supporter of the [[Gamergate coordinated harassment campaign]] (and target of trolling himself) crashed his mother's car while he was on his way to Brianna Wu's house. He was armed at the time.
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* February
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** Racist and sexist jokes at the [https://medium.com/@KatieS/as-a-working-mom-evenings-are-sacred-i-am-fairly-religious-about-leaving-the-office-at-a-certain-5d92326e0a2b TechCrunch Crunchie] awards. T.J. Miller, actor from the TV show Silicon Valley, called a woman in the audience a bitch. When she objected, he went on to say "Bitch, Asians aren’t supposed to be this entitled in the U.S. … Is this bitch from Palo Alto?"
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** A speaker at Ignite Bridgetown, Crystal Beasley, [http://crystalbeasley.com/2015/02/04/I-stand-against-kveton/ protested when she discovered she was speaking at the same event as Scott Kveton,] [http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2014/07/top_portland_tech_ceo_faces_se.html who was accused of sexual assault] in July 2014. The organizers decided to [http://www.eventbrite.com/e/ignite-bridgetown-part-of-portland-startup-week-tickets-15491321961 cancel the event] after Beasley's post.
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** [[FOSDEM]] was criticised (e.g. by [http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2015/02/01/the-fosdem-conundrum/ Sarah Mei]) for not having a proper [[Code of Conduct]], including by keynote [[Karen Sandler]]. The organisers [https://twitter.com/fosdem/status/561885201383821312 acknowledged] the criticism and stated their intention to improve.
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* March
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** In a presentation on "biohacking" at the CanSecWest security conference, Jan Krissler [http://www.tomsguide.com/us/photos-biometrics-csw,news-20684.html used a closeup of a pornographic image of a woman giving a blowjob] (slide #37 from the [https://cansecwest.com/slides/2015/I%20see%20therefore%20I%20am%20-%20Jan%20Starbug.pdf deck posted here]) to illustrate that high enough resolution photographs can be used to bypass retina scans. Most of the penis in the image was blocked out, but there was no ambiguity as to the content of the image. Also, in the presentation by Patrick Wardle from Synack, one of initial slides had a table of terms being defined with each having a simple art stye depicting women's body parts/sexual activities so as to explain the security terms (the terms included implant, hooking, backdoor, etc., which are valid security terms that he sexualized). Two of the images had black bars to supposedly censor them, but he explained that he was willing to provide the slides uncensored to those who ask him for them. Additionally, he used the justification that the US is uptight about sex as a reason for it being acceptable to include sexual content in a technical security conference. Both current online copies of the [https://cansecwest.com/slides/2015/DLL%20Hijacking%20on%20OSX%20-%20Patrick%20Wardle.pdf slide deck] have this slide removed from them. Later the same day, and ironically immediately following a lightning talk which included one on the topic of respecting women members of the infosec community, several witnesses [https://twitter.com/blowdart/status/578971428545961984 reported] that there was a stripper at the official conference party.
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** [http://www.michaelrobertson.com/about.php Michael Robertson], founder of mp3.com, tweeted that white men dominate Silicon Valley because [https://twitter.com/mp3michael/status/579812350473043969 "Science tells us men & women are biologically different including their brains and skills."]
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** On March 8, Linus Torvalds [https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b0bc65729070b9cbdbb53ff042984a3c545a0e34 committed] a "Code of Conflict" to the kernel. It was [http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2015/03/linux-kernel-s-code-conflict signed by 60 kernel maintainers] and initiated as a patch by Greg Kroah-Hartman, one of the developers involved in the [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Linux_kernel_civility_discussion Kernel Civility Incident] in July 2013.
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** [http://file770.com/?p=21634 Context 28 is cancelled] after extended fallout from bad handling of a harassment incident at Context 27.
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* April
  +
** [[Europython podcast comments]]
  +
** Hugo Award nominations announced; [http://file770.com/?p=21769 ballot heavily dominated] by [http://www.dailydot.com/geek/hugo-award-nominees-sad-puppies/ Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies] efforts. ([[Science Fiction Fandom]])
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** Anonymous user(s) repeatedly attempt to delete information about [https://twitter.com/cfowlermsft Cory Fowler] from the timeline of incidents, persisting in spite of the deletions being reverted.
  +
** A former Supertuxkart developper brings Supertuxkart upskirting animation and the multiplication of women in swim suit occurrence in the new release to [[debian women mailing list]]. Maintainer keep the package as is.
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  +
* May
  +
** May 18, FORTAcloud tweeted [https://twitter.com/FortaCloud/status/600303456440741888 sexist pic with promotional code], doubled down against criticism with supposed statistic that "[https://twitter.com/FortaCloud/status/600305549209694208 99% of their customers are male between 18 and 42]", and tweeted that "[https://twitter.com/FortaCloud/status/600310695494873088 advertising with images of beautiful girls is sexy]." In terms of other statistics, of the [https://twitter.com/FortaCloud/media 5 images they've ever tweeted], 2 were women in underwear. See also [[Fortacloud50offmonday]] article.
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* June
  +
** [[OpalGate incident]]
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* July
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** French Wikipedia discussion about [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion:Thomas_Piketty#.C2.AB.C2.A0La_pol.C3.A9mique.C2.A0.C2.BB removal of a domestic violence mention] on Thomas Piketty page.
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** [http://t.co/2voc73CCqw Andrea-ritsu's tumbler post on Nintendo's Fire Emblem Fates]. ([http://andrea-ritsu.tumblr.com/post/123095085970/soleil-bisexuality-other-supports-and-drugging here] too) [TW drug, consentment] The author explains that the scenario allows the player to "drug" one of the lesbian character to make her see women as men. The author is targeted by Gamer Gate proponent.
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** [https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/this-industry-is-fucked/ Jessie Frazelle's blog post] describing the harassment and threats she received as a Docker core maintainer is published. She later leaves her position at Docker to join Mesosphere. Mesosphere's CEO is Florian Leibert, [[Noirin Shirley ApacheCon incident|who assaulted Noirin Plunkett]] in 2010.
  +
** Ellen Pao resigns from CEO position at Reddit. Users wanted her to step back as CEO, officially because she was hold responsible of Victoria Taylor (Ask Me Anything creator) eviction in the company but this narrative is put in question. On the other hand Ellen Pao removed some fat shaming and racist subreddits and this makes her unpopular for some communities. [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/11/reddit-s-terrorists-have-won-ellen-pao-and-the-failure-to-rebrand-web-2-0.html This article] [TW:Online abuse] sums the situation up.
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  +
* August
  +
** Rachel Nabors [http://rachelnabors.com/2015/09/01/code-of-conduct/ publishes a blog post describing her decision to decline attending] an event she was invited to speak at because the organizer, [[Jared Spool]], refused to adopt a code of conduct (see [https://medium.com/@jmspool/safe-conferences-are-deliberately-designed-2849b6cd3658#.gwmaem6tx Spool's post describing his opposition to codes of conduct]). [[Mike Monteiro]] [https://twitter.com/monteiro/status/639135909498122240 calls Nabors' post "bullshit" on Twitter] and defends the conference organizer personally. After [https://twitter.com/bradley/status/639140447894437889 multiple] [https://twitter.com/antifuchs/status/639315354267684864 people] [https://twitter.com/alexfiles/status/639199413131345920 criticize] him on Twitter, Monteiro publishes a blog post criticizing [https://deardesignstudent.com/what-are-conference-organizers-afraid-of-33ec9c0365df codes of conduct at conferences] because some conference organizers may not enforce them. He instead argues for stricter, more expensive, unachievable measures like certification of procedures by an outside team of experts (not available at that time). As of July 2016, neither Monteiro nor Spool have apologized to Nabors or publicly changed their stance on codes of conduct.
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* September
  +
** @irongeek_adc, responsible for A/V for some computer security conferences, accused of sexism https://twitter.com/HackerHuntress/status/639224664225546240, claims "Cries of sexism that's not there is one category. Examples: Donglegate, Shirtgate, Yogagate" https://twitter.com/irongeek_adc/status/639218545897930752, is called out by others https://twitter.com/McGrewSecurity/status/639167304819994624 https://twitter.com/RSWestmoreland/status/641707740704952321 BSidesLV subsequently [http://www.bsideslv.org/2015/09/09/official-statement-of-the-board-of-directors-in-regards-to-our-videographer/ issued a statement] and no longer plans to work with him for future conferences.
  +
** Katherine Moussouris files lawsuit against Microsoft [http://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-lawsuit-idUSKCN0RG2OE20150916 for gender discrimination]
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  +
* October
  +
** Pubcon incident. A male speaker told a first-time female speaker, [https://twitter.com/BritneyMuller/status/651890426761211904 "Don't be nervous! You're the hot girl at the conference, no one expects you to do well."]
  +
** TechCrunch contributor Catherine Shu [https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/20/the-long-term-cost-of-sexual-harassment/?ncid=rss propositioned and groped] by 500 Startups venture partner Tristan Pollock during event in Taipei 
  +
  +
* November
  +
** [[Ceylon code of conduct]]
  +
** Automated script "[https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts/blob/master/smack-my-bitch-up.sh smack my bitch up] " that sends text messages with a random string after 9pm and the respective [https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts/issues/14 discussion] about...the title.
  +
  +
* December
  +
** IBM "#HackAHairDryer" campaign to encourage women in tech is [http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/ibm-hack-a-hairdryer-campaign-patronising-sexist-criticism-a6763226.html criticized for sexist stereotypes]
  +
  +
== 2016 ==
  +
  +
* January
  +
** [http://ironholds.org/blog/down-and-out-in-statistical-computing/ R developer Oliver Keyes announces he's leaving the project] after core team members dismissed a request to change a sexually explicit variable name.
  +
  +
* March
  +
** Neil deGrasse Tyson [http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2016/03/17/some-days-its-very-hard-to-defend-neil-degrasse-tyson/ tweets that any species for whom sex was painful would go extinct], then doubles down and defends his statement in an interview. Leaving aside non-human species, sex is painful for many humans, especially women. Minimizing or denying this is an example of [[rape culture]] in practice.
  +
** Dragos Ruiu, operator of the CanSecWest security conference, hands out cards advising attendees to perform a "[https://twitter.com/doeg/status/710208704751259648 Slut Check]" for wireless access points with poor authentication
  +
** YET ANOTHER Game Developers Conference (GDC) party features [http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-scantily-clad-dancers-for-gdc-afterparty-2016-3 sexualized women dancers]. This time they are wearing schoolgirl uniforms and the party is sponsored by Microsoft.
  +
** Adam Shostack confronted at RSA 2016 Conference in SF - accused of drugging a woman at ISC2 Security Congress 2014 in Atlanta. This is the third complaint against him as documented at [http://www.adamshostack.com/ ADAMSHOSTACK.COM] and includes hospital records of the woman who had an allergic reaction to something she believes was put in her drink and a video clip of part of the confrontation by her angry boyfriend.
  +
** [[Lambdaconf incident]]
  +
  +
*April
  +
** [https://medium.com/@sarahnadav/paypal-this-flyer-is-wrong-on-too-many-levels-2f7dcb63ff45 PayPal all-male panel on gender equality]
  +
** [http://www.theouthousers.com/index.php/news/135141-dc-restructures-vertigo-fires-shelly-bond-provokes-naming-of-open-secret-sexual-harasser-in-upper-management.html Alleged sexual harasser and DC comics editor Eddie Berganza is named publicly] and described as an "open secret" in the comics industry.
  +
** Serial online harasser and stalker Alex St. John publishes an [http://venturebeat.com/2016/04/16/game-developers-must-avoid-the-wage-slave-attitude/ article in Venturebeat] lambasting people who work 40-hour weeks for salary in game development. [https://medium.com/@milistjohn/i-am-alex-st-john-s-daughter-and-he-is-wrong-about-women-in-tech-4728545e7c0e His daughter publishes a post] disavowing him and his many racist and sexist opinions.
  +
** [http://motherboard.vice.com/read/female-hackers-still-face-harassment-at-conferences VICE article] about harassment of women at security cons
  +
  +
*May
  +
**[[Stormy Peters victim-blaming]]
  +
  +
*June
  +
** [[Jacob Appelbaum rape report]]
  +
  +
*July
  +
** [https://thereisonlyr.com/dumb-widdle-girls-in-tech-c73647238dc4#.ihexmp6jj Nvidia exec "jokes"] that a young woman does not know what GPU is.
  +
  +
*August
  +
** (CW: domestic abuse) [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/08/video-of-silicon-valley-mogul-kicking-his-girlfriend-117-times-could-send-him-to-jail.html Startup CEO Gurbaksh Chahal convicted of domestic violence]
  +
*October
  +
**Harassment incident involving Babak Nivi, AngelList founder and board member at poolside party - precise details unclear as covered by non-disparagement agreement, but reported on by NY Times [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/technology/silicon-valley-sexual-harassment-non-disparagement-agreements.html here].
  +
*November
  +
**Computer hardware company Razer [https://twitter.com/leeflower/status/793587997346295809 tweets a sexually-explicit "joke" advertising a product]. Razer fans proceed to harass women who voice concerns about the tweet. They later deleted it.
  +
*December
  +
**Prominent Drupal event in Germany intended to give away issues of the German edition of Playboy to all attendees as part of the swag (along with industry-related material). They removed the magazines after complaints and [http://dcmuc16.drupalcamp.de/statement issued an apology]. The Drupal Community Working Group subsequently issued a [https://www.drupal.org/node/2834568 statement] on the matter.
  +
**A senior Oculus executive [http://www.polygon.com/2016/12/27/14088862/cops-arrest-oculus-executive-in-underage-sex-sting was arrested in Washington State] after soliciting sex from a police officer he believed to be a fifteen-year-old sex worker.
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  +
== 2017 ==
  +
  +
*February
  +
** [https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber Former Uber engineer Susan J. Fowler] publishes a detailed account of the sexual harassment she faced at Uber and the responses she received when reporting it.
  +
** [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/14/magic-leap-faces-sexual-discrimination-suit Female exec hired to help Magic Leap appeal to women sues for sex discrimination]
  +
* April
  +
** USA government Labor department [https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2017/04/10/labor-department-accuses-google-of-gender-pay-discrimination/ accuses Google] of violating federal employment laws and discriminating against its female employees
  +
** [[Mozilla worldview discussion]] includes debate about including people who think trans people aren't real
  +
** Teemu Hukkanen, [https://www.fairphone.com/en/ Fairphone] and Debian developer, was [https://twitter.com/NGC_3572/status/857897462513664002 publicly accused] of [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Teemu_Hukkanen aggravated assault of woman on December 31, 2016]
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* May
  +
** [https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/15/uploadvr-sued-over-rampant-sexual-behavior-in-the-workplace-and-wrongful-termination/ Elizabeth Scott v. UploadVR] - UploadVR sued for gender discrimination, hostile work environment, sexual harassment, failure to prevent harassment, negligent hiring, Violation of the California Equal Pay Act, failure to reimburse for necessary business expenditures, intentional infliction of emotional distress and wrongful termination.<sup>[15]</sup>
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* June
  +
** Binary Capital [https://www.recode.net/2017/6/23/15865422/justin-caldbeck-leave-absence-sexual-harassment-binary-capital-investment-firm VC Justin Caldbeck takes indefinite leave of absence] after being accused by 6 women in the technology industry of harassment.
  +
** Perkins Coie investigation into incidents of problematic behaviour at Uber reveals [https://www.recode.net/2017/6/6/15749216/perkins-coie-lawyer-bobbie-wilson-uber-firings-dogged-investigating-misbehavior-not-over 215 total incident reports], including sexual harassment, bullying, bias and retaliation
  +
** Emil Michael, Uber's SVP of business [https://www.recode.net/2017/6/12/15783204/uber-emil-michael-step-down-resign resigns] after critical [https://www.recode.net/2017/6/13/15793586/uber-ceo-travis-kalanick-eric-holder-ethics-culture-report-board-management-crisis Covington and Burling report] into culture at Uber, including inquiries into Michael’s [https://www.theinformation.com/uber-groups-visit-to-seoul-escort-bar-sparked-hr-complaint trip to an escort bar in South Korea] with Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and other employees
  +
** Eric Alexander, the president of business for Uber Asia Pacific [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/07/uber-executive-fired-eric-alexander-rape-case-india dismissed] after [https://www.recode.net/2017/6/7/15754316/uber-executive-india-assault-rape-medical-records reports he obtained a rape victim's medical records]
  +
** Uber board member [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/13/david-bonderman-resigns-uber-board-sexist-remark David Bonderman resigns] after sexist remark at meeting addressing sexism
  +
** Dave McClure (founder of 500 Startups) steps away from day-to-day running of firm after [https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/technology/women-entrepreneurs-speak-out-sexual-harassment.html reports of harassment]
  +
** Chris Sacca (VC, Lowercase Capital) [https://medium.com/@sacca/i-have-more-work-to-do-c775c5d56ca1 apologises] for for helping make tech hostile to women — after being accused of [http://www.businessinsider.com/chris-sacca-apologizes-after-accusation-of-inappropriate-touching-2017-6?IR=T inappropriately touching a female entrepreneur]
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* July
  +
** After Dave McClure's resignation, [https://cherylyeoh.com/2017/07/03/shedding-light-on-the-black-box-of-inappropriateness/ allegations of sexual assault emerge], as well as suggestion that at least 12 other women had faced harassment by him.
  +
** Coraline Ada Ehmke came forward with her account of being [[Coraline Ada Ehmke leaves Github|constructively dismissed from Github]]
  +
** Lee Jacobs of AngelList on indefinite leave following allegations of sexual assault in 2013 - [https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/17/angellist-lee-jacobs/ reported on TechCrunch]
  +
** AngelList co-founder Babak Nivi [https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/21/angellist-babak-nivi/ leaves AngelList for undisclosed reasons], [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/technology/silicon-valley-sexual-harassment-non-disparagement-agreements.html report in NY Times] detail incident at poolside party in October 2016, covered by non-disparagement agreement.
  +
** 500 Startups venture partner Tristan Pollock placed on administrative leave of absence as sexual assault claim from 2015 reinvestigated, after victim [https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/20/the-long-term-cost-of-sexual-harassment/?ncid=rss posts about incident] on TechCrunch.
  +
** Arch Linux mirror "Loli.forsale" (created by Austin Gillmann) removed after [https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=227998 complaint]. Gillmann [https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/51870 originally requested] the name "mirror.cuntflaps.me". Gillmann [https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-mirrors/2017-July/000684.html subsequently posts] on loss of "free speech".
  +
* August
  +
** [[Google engineer writes anti-diversity manifesto]]
  +
** [[Node.js technical steering committee fails to enforce code of conduct]]
  +
* October
  +
**'''[CW: child sexual abuse]''' Zain Jaffer, the CEO of the mobile ad startup Vungle, [https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2017/10/20/zain-jaffer-ceo-of-startup-vungle-charged-with-attempted-murder-child-abuse/#38e069b96d62 is arrested for sexually abusing his children.]
  +
** In a nutshell child abuse is the misuse of children due to the inability to protect or defend themselves. Child abuse may be caused by many evil forms .
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==2018==
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*January
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** ''Wired'' reports that [https://www.wired.com/story/the-dirty-war-over-diversity-inside-google/ diversity advocates at Google are being harassed by members of the alt-right both inside and outside the company].
  +
*April
  +
**Richard Stallman weighs-in on [https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/753646/a6ebb50040c5862c/ whether abortion or childbirth is more traumatic], declaring that software manuals are not a 'safe space' and should allow such jokes.
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== Footnotes ==
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<references />
 
[[Category:Incidents]]
  
[[Category:Incidents]]

Latest revision as of 15:19, 28 February 2022

This is a timeline of sexist incidents in geek communities including:

See Timeline of geek feminism for the development of geek feminism itself.

(Mary Gardiner explains the reason for this list in Why we document, originally on the Geek Feminism blog.)

1963

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1982

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2008

2009

2010

  • October
    • Penny Arcade announces Dickwolves tshirts; Courtney Stanton announces Dickwolves Survivors Guild tshirts in protest

2011

2012

2013

  • October
    • Codemash sexual assault
    • standingwithDNLee Biologist and science writer Dr. Danielle N. Lee responded to being called a "whore" after politely declining to write for free. The Scientific American blog network removed her blog post about it without consulting her, with the excuse that it "verged into the personal."
    • Reports of harassment of Scientific American bloggers by editor Bora Zivkovic surfaced around a year ago, but in October 2013 several women wrote in public naming him and describing his patterns of bad behavior.
    • SF hacker group advertises "Hackers and Hookers " costume party. When called on it, they issue a classic non-apology (both advertisement and apology archived at link).
    • Kent James, a core reviewer for the open-source Thunderbird project, wrote a blog post with the subject line "Real Men do Build Engineering". Despite knowing that this was sexist (the original post included the question, "So, are there any Real Men out there (or even Real Women) that want to be a hero, and save our project?"), in a comment, James stated "I decided to remove comments that disputed my use of the term 'Real Men'." (In an example of the Many bad things in the world silencing tactic, he implied that it was acceptable for him to insinuate that men are more likely to understand build engineering than women are because an organization exists that uses the term "real men" and claims to fight domestic violence.)
    • At the ACM CIKM 2013 conference, a presenter showed a slide (photo) with the text "Big data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it... (Dan Ariely)" The conference did not have an anti-harassment policy posted on its web site.
    • The Special support for women thread began on Linux Australia's discussion mailing list.

2014

2015

  • January
    • Milo Yiannopoulos (a leader of the Gamergate coordinated harassment campaign) published an article disclosing personal details about tech culture critic Shanley Kane's past romantic relationships; the article was reposted by Valleywag.[1]
    • The Feminist Software Foundation trolling continued, with a phony Straw-feminist operating system called "ToleranUX".[2]
    • Plaxo co-founder Minh Nguyen was arrested for the murder of his ex-wife's husband.[3]
    • ZeroFox gives a talk entitled Mascots, March Madness & #yogapants: Hacking Goes to Collegewhich discusses various means of social media exploitation, while emphasising "well-endowed women," and many mentions of "yoga pants" leading to audience cheers and yelling "when do we get to the yoga pants" and similar.[4] Speakers, when contacted on twitter, insisted that they were presenting an objective view on soft exploits ("the reality is social media attacks involve sex & food as targeting "[5][6]) and denied any wrongdoing. [7]

      Harassment ensues[8], and the person who raised the issue was chased off Twitter by people directed to her by blog posts[9], et cetera.

    • Jace Connors car crash: Connors, known as a supporter of the Gamergate coordinated harassment campaign (and target of trolling himself) crashed his mother's car while he was on his way to Brianna Wu's house. He was armed at the time.
  • March
    • In a presentation on "biohacking" at the CanSecWest security conference, Jan Krissler used a closeup of a pornographic image of a woman giving a blowjob (slide #37 from the deck posted here) to illustrate that high enough resolution photographs can be used to bypass retina scans. Most of the penis in the image was blocked out, but there was no ambiguity as to the content of the image. Also, in the presentation by Patrick Wardle from Synack, one of initial slides had a table of terms being defined with each having a simple art stye depicting women's body parts/sexual activities so as to explain the security terms (the terms included implant, hooking, backdoor, etc., which are valid security terms that he sexualized). Two of the images had black bars to supposedly censor them, but he explained that he was willing to provide the slides uncensored to those who ask him for them. Additionally, he used the justification that the US is uptight about sex as a reason for it being acceptable to include sexual content in a technical security conference. Both current online copies of the slide deck have this slide removed from them. Later the same day, and ironically immediately following a lightning talk which included one on the topic of respecting women members of the infosec community, several witnesses reported that there was a stripper at the official conference party.
    • Michael Robertson, founder of mp3.com, tweeted that white men dominate Silicon Valley because "Science tells us men & women are biologically different including their brains and skills."
    • On March 8, Linus Torvalds committed a "Code of Conflict" to the kernel. It was signed by 60 kernel maintainers and initiated as a patch by Greg Kroah-Hartman, one of the developers involved in the Kernel Civility Incident in July 2013.
    • Context 28 is cancelled after extended fallout from bad handling of a harassment incident at Context 27.
  • July
    • French Wikipedia discussion about removal of a domestic violence mention on Thomas Piketty page.
    • Andrea-ritsu's tumbler post on Nintendo's Fire Emblem Fates. (here too) [TW drug, consentment] The author explains that the scenario allows the player to "drug" one of the lesbian character to make her see women as men. The author is targeted by Gamer Gate proponent.
    • Jessie Frazelle's blog post describing the harassment and threats she received as a Docker core maintainer is published. She later leaves her position at Docker to join Mesosphere. Mesosphere's CEO is Florian Leibert, who assaulted Noirin Plunkett in 2010.
    • Ellen Pao resigns from CEO position at Reddit. Users wanted her to step back as CEO, officially because she was hold responsible of Victoria Taylor (Ask Me Anything creator) eviction in the company but this narrative is put in question. On the other hand Ellen Pao removed some fat shaming and racist subreddits and this makes her unpopular for some communities. This article [TW:Online abuse] sums the situation up.

2016

  • March
    • Neil deGrasse Tyson tweets that any species for whom sex was painful would go extinct, then doubles down and defends his statement in an interview. Leaving aside non-human species, sex is painful for many humans, especially women. Minimizing or denying this is an example of rape culture in practice.
    • Dragos Ruiu, operator of the CanSecWest security conference, hands out cards advising attendees to perform a "Slut Check" for wireless access points with poor authentication
    • YET ANOTHER Game Developers Conference (GDC) party features sexualized women dancers. This time they are wearing schoolgirl uniforms and the party is sponsored by Microsoft.
    • Adam Shostack confronted at RSA 2016 Conference in SF - accused of drugging a woman at ISC2 Security Congress 2014 in Atlanta. This is the third complaint against him as documented at ADAMSHOSTACK.COM and includes hospital records of the woman who had an allergic reaction to something she believes was put in her drink and a video clip of part of the confrontation by her angry boyfriend.
    • Lambdaconf incident
  • August
  • October
    • Harassment incident involving Babak Nivi, AngelList founder and board member at poolside party - precise details unclear as covered by non-disparagement agreement, but reported on by NY Times here.
  • November
  • December
    • Prominent Drupal event in Germany intended to give away issues of the German edition of Playboy to all attendees as part of the swag (along with industry-related material). They removed the magazines after complaints and issued an apology. The Drupal Community Working Group subsequently issued a statement on the matter.
    • A senior Oculus executive was arrested in Washington State after soliciting sex from a police officer he believed to be a fifteen-year-old sex worker.

2017

2018

Footnotes

  1. ↑ DoNotLink access to the article
  2. ↑ ToleranUX: Satirical Linux fork mocks calls for open source diversity on ArsTechnica
  3. ↑ Article on Tech Crunch
  4. ↑ Presentation abstract on ZeroFox
  5. ↑ Screen cap of correspondence on Twitter
  6. ↑ ZeroFox Twitter status
  7. ↑ Sensationalism – doing more damage than good (opinion essay on I Am Security)
  8. ↑ link to deleted Twitter status
  9. ↑ Hacker cons and speech codes on MikeBlog
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