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* February
 
* February
 
** [[LCA2013 shirtgate]]
 
** [[LCA2013 shirtgate]]
** 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 people via his Microsoft email asking if they would like to attend a strip club. He also asked [https://twitter.com/cfowlermsft Cory Fowler] another tech evangelist from Microsoft and other women at the conference if they would like to attend, Cory confirmed that the email was sent through to the Microsoft Evangelist Team.
 
** [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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** [[Dana_McCallum_rape_arrest|Dana McCallum rape arrest]]
 
** [[Dana_McCallum_rape_arrest|Dana McCallum rape arrest]]
 
** 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.
 
** 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.
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** [http://etbe.coker.com.au/2015/01/08/conference-suggestions/ Heckler disrupts feminist miniconf] Haecksen at LCA
   
 
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* February
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** [[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]
 
* 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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** 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.
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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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== 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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* [[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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=== 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] 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. 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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Revision as of 02:05, 23 March 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.)

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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.

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March