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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].
 
** 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].
 
** [[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 Joshuah Ryan Alcorn, a male who became a 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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** [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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As years passed, incidents have been becoming more and more. This could mean two things: that either awareness of misoginy is spreading or that, as critics have been claiming, the feminist movement has been having a thinner and thinner skin, like that of a potato.[[Category:Incidents]]
 
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== 2015 ==
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* 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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** 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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** [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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** ZeroFox gives a talk entitled ''[http://www.zerofox.com/news/zerofox-researchers-present-shmoocon-2015/ 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. Speakers, [http://i.imgur.com/rC2D9L7.png when contacted on twitter], [https://twitter.com/ZeroFox/status/556855925848670210 insisted that they were presenting an objective view of soft exploits] ("sex sells") and [http://www.iamit.org/blog/2015/01/sensationalism-doing-more-damage-than-good/ denied any wrongdoing]. [https://twitter.com/infosexbitch/status/556881701788745729 Harassment ensues], and the person who raised the issue was chased off twitter by people directed to her by [http://theprez98.blogspot.com/2015/01/hacker-cons-and-speech-codes.html blog posts], et cetera.
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[[Category:Incidents]]

Revision as of 16:50, 23 January 2015

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.)

1963

1973

1982

1988

1989

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1996

1999

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2001

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2005

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

2014

2015