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** Several women go public with accounts of [http://comicsalliance.com/brian-wood-tess-fowler-sexual-harassment-accusations-statement/ sexual harassment by Brian Wood], an influential comics writer.
  
** Several women go public with accounts of [http://comicsalliance.com/brian-wood-tess-fowler-sexual-harassment-accusations-statement/ sexual harassment by Brian Wood], an influential comics writer.
 
** PBS Digital Studios produces a video by Joe Hanson promoting science careers entitled "It's Okay to be Smart" that features [http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2013/11/pbs-digital-studios-offensive.html sexual harassment and assault of the only woman character], Marie Curie, by Albert Einstein. The creator, Joe Hanson, wrote a [http://www.itsokaytobesmart.com/post/67168507202/on-this-weeks-video blog post] saying that the video "reflects the dark reality that many men in [Einstein's] time acted inappropriately toward women." @silentkpants explains that "[https://twitter.com/silentkpants/status/401798342574739456 If the depiction of sexual assault is what's played for laughs, it's NOT a 'lampoon']." Dr. Isis [https://medium.com/ladybits-on-medium/2650b7236906 explains] that the behavior depicted in the video continues to happen today. The PBS Ombudsman ends a summary of feedback with "[http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2013/11/its_not_okay_to_be_not_smart.html With this video, Joe has opened up an important, though difficult, debate. We believe we are meeting our public service mission by providing an open forum where this and other conversations about complex subjects can take place.]" Hanson [http://tmblr.co/ZboZKy_z23N1 takes the video down] after several days of criticism.
  
** PBS Digital Studios produces a video by Joe Hanson promoting science careers entitled "It's Okay to be Smart" that features [http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2013/11/pbs-digital-studios-offensive.html sexual harassment and assault of the only woman character], Marie Curie, by Albert Einstein. The creator, Joe Hanson, wrote a [http://www.itsokaytobesmart.com/post/67168507202/on-this-weeks-video blog post] saying that the video "reflects the dark reality that many men in [Einstein's] time acted inappropriately toward women." @silentkpants explains that "[https://twitter.com/silentkpants/status/401798342574739456 If the depiction of sexual assault is what's played for laughs, it's NOT a 'lampoon']." Dr. Isis [https://medium.com/ladybits-on-medium/2650b7236906 explains] that the behavior depicted in the video continues to happen today. The PBS Ombudsman ends a summary of feedback with "[http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2013/11/its_not_okay_to_be_not_smart.html With this video, Joe has opened up an important, though difficult, debate. We believe we are meeting our public service mission by providing an open forum where this and other conversations about complex subjects can take place.]" Hanson [http://tmblr.co/ZboZKy_z23N1 takes the video down] after several days of criticism.
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** A [https://github.com/joyent/libuv libuv] maintainer rejects [https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015 a pull request removing gendered pronouns] from its documentation, saying "[https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29538615 Sorry, not interested in trivial changes like that.]" A different maintainer soon [https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29542508 accepts the pull request]. While the comments on the pull request are mostly supportive, they also contain an impressive litany of [[Derailment|derailing]] and [[Silencing|silencing]] tactics, including accusations of [[White Knighting]] and of [[Political correctness|political correctness]], the [[Many bad things in the world]] argument, the [[You're the sexist]] argument, and other such [[Concern troll|concern trolling]].
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** libuv maintainer rejects a pull request [https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015 removing gendered pronouns] from documentation saying "<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;line-height:22px;">Sorry, not interested in trivial changes like that."</span>
  

Revision as of 04:50, 30 November 2013

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.)

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

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  • 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.
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