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** [http://www.ariannasimpson.com/this-is-what-its-like-to-be-a-woman-at-a-bitcoin-meetup/ This is what it's like to be a woman at a Bitcoin meetup] Two women attend a bitcoin meetup and are immediately groped, propositioned, and insulted
  
** [http://www.ariannasimpson.com/this-is-what-its-like-to-be-a-woman-at-a-bitcoin-meetup/ This is what it's like to be a woman at a Bitcoin meetup] Two women attend a bitcoin meetup and are immediately groped, propositioned, and insulted
 
** [http://kotaku.com/she-was-harassed-by-a-games-reporter-now-shes-speakin-1510714971 Games reporter Josh Mattingly sexually harasses story lead]
  
** [http://kotaku.com/she-was-harassed-by-a-games-reporter-now-shes-speakin-1510714971 Games reporter Josh Mattingly sexually harasses story lead]
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** [http://twistpeach.livejournal.com/101026.html NBC Sports affiliate editor Dustin Hennessey assaults two women at Arisia Con in Boston, MA] . The Code of Conduct policy empowered one of the women to report the incident and resolve the situation.
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** [http://twistpeach.livejournal.com/101026.html NBC Sports affiliate editor Dustin Hennessey assaults two women at Arisia Con in Boston, MA]  The Code of Conduct policy empowered one of the women to report the incident and resolve the situation.
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** [http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/transgender-womens-rights-advocate-and-prominent-twitter-engineer-charged-with-rape/Content?oid=2761316 Noted transgender women's rights activist and Twitter engineer Dana McCallum is arrested on rape and domestic violence charges.]
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** Also see: [http://valleywag.gawker.com/respected-twitter-engineer-dana-mccallum-charged-with-r-1562193427 "Respected Twitter Engineer Dana McCallum Charged With Rape"]
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** See this page: [[Dana_McCallum_rape_arrest|Dana McCallum rape arrest]]
   
 
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** [[GAME_JAM walk out]]
  
** [[GAME_JAM walk out]]
 
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** [http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/transgender-womens-rights-advocate-and-prominent-twitter-engineer-charged-with-rape/Content?oid=2761316 Noted transgender women's rights activist and Twitter engineer Dana McCallum is arrested on rape and domestic violence charges.]
  
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** Also see: [http://valleywag.gawker.com/respected-twitter-engineer-dana-mccallum-charged-with-r-1562193427 "Respected Twitter Engineer Dana McCallum Charged With Rape"]
  
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** See this page: [[Dana_McCallum_rape_arrest|Dana McCallum rape arrest]]
  

Revision as of 11:23, 24 April 2014

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 on the Geek Feminism blog.)

1973

1982

1988

1989

1996

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

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.

2014

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