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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.)
  
([[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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== 1963 ==
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*[[The Great Breen Boondoggle]]: Walter Breen excluded from Worldcon as he was judged (correctly) to pose a threat to children.
 
== 1973 ==
  
== 1973 ==
 
*[[Lena Söderberg's photograph]] is first used in image processing experiments.
  
*[[Lena Söderberg's photograph]] is first used in image processing experiments.
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* [[École Polytechnique massacre]]
  
* [[École Polytechnique massacre]]
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== 1993 ==
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* [[A Rape in Cyberspace]]
   
 
== 1996 ==
  
== 1996 ==
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* February
  
* February
 
** Announcement of new subgroup [https://archwomen.org/ Arch Women] triggers furious discussion on main forums including [https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=151306&p=1 this excerpted thread]. (Broken link)
  
** Announcement of new subgroup [https://archwomen.org/ Arch Women] triggers furious discussion on main forums including [https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=151306&p=1 this excerpted thread]. (Broken link)
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** Sexual harassment at the [[Cross Assault]] fighting game tournament.[http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18280000][http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/us/sexual-harassment-in-online-gaming-stirs-anger.html?_r=0][http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/sexual-harassment-as-ethical-imperative-the-ugly-side-of-fighting-games][http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/29/cross-assault-sexual-harassment-controversy-overshadows-on-screen-combat/][http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/when-passions-flare-lines-are-crossed-updated/1100-4006/]
 
* March
  
* March
 
** The announcement for [[Sqoot Boston API Jam|Sqoot's Boston API Jam]] lists women to fetch you beer amongst the "Great Perks" of attending.
  
** The announcement for [[Sqoot Boston API Jam|Sqoot's Boston API Jam]] lists women to fetch you beer amongst the "Great Perks" of attending.
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** [http://lists.hackerspaces.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-January/007285.html Women in Makerspaces], the "e-textiles" post and discussion on a hackerspaces.org list. There was a very funny [http://valerieaurora.org/dramatic_reading.mov dramatic reading] of the e-textiles post by Rory Marinich.
  
** [http://lists.hackerspaces.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-January/007285.html Women in Makerspaces], the "e-textiles" post and discussion on a hackerspaces.org list. There was a very funny [http://valerieaurora.org/dramatic_reading.mov dramatic reading] of the e-textiles post by Rory Marinich.
 
** <span style="line-height:21px;">Cory Doctorow finds the company Rapiscan, that makes TSA body scanners, funny because it </span>[http://boingboing.net/2013/01/18/tsa-terminates-its-contract-wi.html could be pronounced like "rape"]<span style="line-height:21px;"> .</span>
  
** <span style="line-height:21px;">Cory Doctorow finds the company Rapiscan, that makes TSA body scanners, funny because it </span>[http://boingboing.net/2013/01/18/tsa-terminates-its-contract-wi.html could be pronounced like "rape"]<span style="line-height:21px;"> .</span>
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** Multiple speculative fiction authors ask creators to pressure [[Ed Kramer and Dragon*Con|Dragon*Con to end its association with Ed Kramer]]
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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.
 
** [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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* April
  
* April
 
** [[Locus Online Burqa article]]: http://ktempest.tumblr.com/post/46879615083/trigger-warning-islamophobia-fat-shaming-other
  
** [[Locus Online Burqa article]]: http://ktempest.tumblr.com/post/46879615083/trigger-warning-islamophobia-fat-shaming-other
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* May
  
* May
 
** [[Pouet logo incident]]
  
** [[Pouet logo incident]]
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** [[Women Who Kick Ass]] San Diego ComicCon panel. Great panel, sexist backlash.
  
** [[Women Who Kick Ass]] San Diego ComicCon panel. Great panel, sexist backlash.
 
** [[Anime Expo hidden camera]] - http://dancingwithscissors.tumblr.com/post/55464547361/judgementscythe-credit-to-whoever-is-in-charge
  
** [[Anime Expo hidden camera]] - http://dancingwithscissors.tumblr.com/post/55464547361/judgementscythe-credit-to-whoever-is-in-charge
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** [[Ed Kramer and Dragon*Con|Dragon*Con severed financial ties with Ed Kramer]]
   
 
* August
  
* August
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** [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/user/rkentjames/ Kent James], a core reviewer for the open-source Thunderbird project, wrote a blog post with the subject line [http://mesquilla.com/2013/10/23/real-men-do-build-engineering-a-real-threat-to-thunderbird/ "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.)
  
** [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/user/rkentjames/ Kent James], a core reviewer for the open-source Thunderbird project, wrote a blog post with the subject line [http://mesquilla.com/2013/10/23/real-men-do-build-engineering-a-real-threat-to-thunderbird/ "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 [http://www.cikm2013.org/ ACM CIKM 2013] conference, a presenter showed a slide [https://twitter.com/iwonabb/status/396035959050870784 (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.
  
** At the [http://www.cikm2013.org/ ACM CIKM 2013] conference, a presenter showed a slide [https://twitter.com/iwonabb/status/396035959050870784 (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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** The [[Special support for women thread]] began on Linux Australia's discussion mailing list.
   
 
* November
  
* November
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** [http://valleywag.gawker.com/paul-graham-says-women-havent-been-hacking-for-the-pa-1490581236 Paul Graham claims] women have not been hacking for the past ten years, and he wouldn't know how to get a teenaged girl interested in computers.
  
** [http://valleywag.gawker.com/paul-graham-says-women-havent-been-hacking-for-the-pa-1490581236 Paul Graham claims] women have not been hacking for the past ten years, and he wouldn't know how to get a teenaged girl interested in computers.
 
** [http://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/%E5%AD%A6%E4%BC%9A%E8%AA%8C%E5%90%8D%E3%81%AE%E5%A4%89%E6%9B%B4%E3%81%A8%E6%96%B0%E3%81%97%E3%81%84%E8%A1%A8%E7%B4%99%E3%83%87%E3%82%B6%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%81%AE%E3%81%8A%E7%9F%A5%E3%82%89%E3%81%9B/ The illustration of an artificial servant girl] with a broom appears on [http://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/en the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence] Journal, which [http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-25680951 sparks a sexism row].
  
** [http://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/%E5%AD%A6%E4%BC%9A%E8%AA%8C%E5%90%8D%E3%81%AE%E5%A4%89%E6%9B%B4%E3%81%A8%E6%96%B0%E3%81%97%E3%81%84%E8%A1%A8%E7%B4%99%E3%83%87%E3%82%B6%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%81%AE%E3%81%8A%E7%9F%A5%E3%82%89%E3%81%9B/ The illustration of an artificial servant girl] with a broom appears on [http://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/en the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence] Journal, which [http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-25680951 sparks a sexism row].
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** [[Ed Kramer and Dragon*Con|Ed Kramer pleaded guilty to child molestation charges]]
   
 
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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.
  
** [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.
 
** [[Dana_McCallum_rape_arrest|Dana McCallum rape arrest]]
  
** [[Dana_McCallum_rape_arrest|Dana McCallum rape arrest]]
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** Nitin Khanna, a prominent investor and executive in the Portland tech scene, [http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2014/01/portland_tech_community_grappl.html is sued by a woman for raping her in 2012]. The parties reach a settlement out of court, the terms of which are confidential. Journalists note the "eerie silence" from the usually-verbose tech community after the case came to light.
   
 
* February
  
* February
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** [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]
 
** [[Django primary-replica terminology patch dispute]]
  
** [[Django primary-replica terminology patch dispute]]
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** [[Isla Vista killings]]
 
** [[Google releases workforce diversity data]]
  
** [[Google releases workforce diversity data]]
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** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Picture_of_the_day#Discussion_regarding_possible_picture_of_the_day:_Michele_Merkin Discussion on a proposed picture of the day] for Wikipedia.
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** [[Jim Frenkel at WisCon 38|James Frenkel attends and volunteers at WisCon 2014]] after harassing an attendee the prior year (see [[SFF harassment revelations 2013]]).
 
* June
  
* June
 
** An Atlassian developer, Jonathan Doklovic, [https://twitter.com/Dmagge/status/474134958349758464/photo/1 compares Maven to his annoying girlfriend] in a conference presentation. (http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/06/04/318882549/women-complain-a-lot-interrupt-developer-says-at-conference). The company [http://blogs.atlassian.com/2014/06/failing-values-team-industry/ quickly apologizes] .
  
** An Atlassian developer, Jonathan Doklovic, [https://twitter.com/Dmagge/status/474134958349758464/photo/1 compares Maven to his annoying girlfriend] in a conference presentation. (http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/06/04/318882549/women-complain-a-lot-interrupt-developer-says-at-conference). The company [http://blogs.atlassian.com/2014/06/failing-values-team-industry/ quickly apologizes] .
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** A Livestream developer, Ash Taylor, [https://twitter.com/shanley/status/475058889936084992 wrote a public tweet] calling tech feminist activists Ashe Dryden and Shanley Kane "cunts", after which he deleted the tweet and deleted his employer's name from his Twitter profile.
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** A Livestream developer, Ash Taylor, [https://twitter.com/shanley/status/475058889936084992 wrote a public tweet] calling tech feminist activists Ashe Dryden and Shanley Kane "cunts", after which he deleted the tweet and deleted his employer's name from his Twitter profile. Taylor issued an [http://zi.vc/apology.html apology], but only after Livestream fired him from his job.
 
** Chicago TechWeek [http://pando.com/2014/06/03/industry-leaders-attack-chicago-tech-week-over-ludicrously-sexist-ads/ uses sexualized images of women to advertise a black tie event] promoting their "TechWeek 100"; several of the honorees [http://www.sean-johnson.com/asked-removed-techweek-100/ ask to be removed] .
  
** Chicago TechWeek [http://pando.com/2014/06/03/industry-leaders-attack-chicago-tech-week-over-ludicrously-sexist-ads/ uses sexualized images of women to advertise a black tie event] promoting their "TechWeek 100"; several of the honorees [http://www.sean-johnson.com/asked-removed-techweek-100/ ask to be removed] .
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** [http://hackeducation.com/2014/06/04/yesallwomen-iste-code-of-conduct/ Report of sexual harassment and assault at educational technology conference ISTE] goes public. [http://blog.iste.org/of-dignityundermined/ ISTE CEO Brian Lewis responds]. The reporter took down her [https://medium.com/teaching-learning/what-is-this-church-camp-e9070b67bd0c original post] [https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wcPGQYHbvwMJ:https://medium.com/teaching-learning/what-is-this-church-camp-e9070b67bd0c+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us (Google cache)]  ([http://freze.it/i0v Freze.it cache] ) and [https://medium.com/@ariel_n/setting-a-few-things-straight-32690f40530 wrote a follow-up] detailing the responses she got, including harassment.
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** Polish tech company [http://84kids.com 84kids] posts an sexual [https://www.facebook.com/84kids/photos/a.259909824146769.1073741827.186581168146302/404091523061931/?type=1 job offer ad] (translation: "I want to decrease margin to your <body>"). After [https://www.facebook.com/84kids/photos/a.259909824146769.1073741827.186581168146302/404091523061931/?type=1&comment_id=404192303051853&offset=0&total_comments=23 comments] [https://www.facebook.com/84kids/photos/a.259909824146769.1073741827.186581168146302/404091523061931/?type=1&comment_id=404198089717941&offset=0&total_comments=23 pointing] out problems with advertisement company fails to understand problem.
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** Drupal Association board member MortenDK resigns from the board after a conflict resolution process after a DrupalCon conflict over the Code of Conduct and use of the word "pussy". [https://twitter.com/jackaponte/status/474533356718141440 Tweet], [https://twitter.com/jackaponte/status/474558793846517761 tweet], [http://morten.dk/blog/language-twitter-misunderstanding-drupal-community MortenDK post], (there are more links to be found)
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** [[Marion Zimmer Bradley's child abuse]] described by her daughter
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** An employee of the global, non-profit OWASP Open Web Application Security Project [http://lists.owasp.org/pipermail/owasp-leaders/2014-June/012034.html resigns] and opens a case with the EEOC against OWASP leaders Jim Manico, Josh Sokol, and Eoin Keary. In a letter forwarded by Dinis Cruz, the employee states that Board member Jim Manico used "sexually aggressive and offensive, gender specific language" at the AppSec USA 2013 conference in November 2013, later followed by "public accusations surrounding my work performance." Keary calls the claims "[http://lists.owasp.org/pipermail/owasp-leaders/2014-June/012048.html slander and lies]." Sokol says "[http://lists.owasp.org/pipermail/owasp-leaders/2014-June/012046.html the claim is filled with fantasy]." Manico states they are "100% slander" and that OWASP's compliance officer finds the situation "too complex."
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** [[4chan]] [https://storify.com/eaton/pol-vs-social-justice trolls executed a phony Twitter hashtag campaign] with the intend to discredit feminists and women of color. Twitter user [https://twitter.com/sassycrass sassycrass] spotted this and started the [https://twitter.com/hashtag/YourSlipIsShowing?src=hash #YourSlipIsShowing] hashtag.
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** [[gittip crisis]]
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** An open governance activist, Jen Kotila, who has been working with open knowledge organizations in Copenhagen, [[KopenLab harassment|speaks up about the sexual harassment and bullying she has experienced over the past several months in KopenLab]].
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** Campus Party Mexico 2015 #CPMX5 : [https://twitter.com/ApplicateMx/status/482365755854303235 @ApplicateMx gives a conference] "Como hacker a una mujer" (How to hack a woman)
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** Campus Party Mexico 2015 #CPMX5 : A company puts a QR code model in order to get the attendatss to take pictures of her. [https://twitter.com/incarlosit/status/482315262549450752 Picture on Twitter].
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** [[Tinder sexual harassment lawsuit]]
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* July
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** Scott Kveton, CEO of Portland-area software company Urban Airship, [http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2014/07/top_portland_tech_ceo_faces_se.html investigated for sexual assault]. He goes on a [http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2014/07/urban_airship_ceo_takes_leave.html leave of absence] a few days later.
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** [http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/07/02/hearthstone-tournament/ Hearthstone Tournament in Finland forbids female players] , apparently on orders from international tournament sponsoring authority
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** Christien Rioux (dildog) co-founder of Veracode, [https://twitter.com/dildog/status/485831641500512257 suggests women can't write security exploits]: "With regard to sexism in the security industry, if anyone knows about an exploit written and published by a woman, I'd like to see it."
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** [[Max Temkin rape report]]
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** [[Jim Frenkel at WisCon 38|WisCon announces a temporary and provisional ban on attendance for serial harasser Jim Frenkel]], a decision that dissatisifies many people.
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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].)

Revision as of 18:08, 29 July 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.)

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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.
    • The Special support for women thread began on Linux Australia's discussion mailing list.

2014

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