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** Vox Day/Theodore Beale [http://amalelmohtar.com/2013/06/13/calling-for-the-expulsion-of-theodore-beale-from-sfwa/ kicked out of SFWA due to racism]. ([[Science Fiction Fandom]])
   
 
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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."]
  
*[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."]
 
*On March 8, Linus Torvalds [https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b0bc65729070b9cbdbb53ff042984a3c545a0e34 committed] a "Code of Conflict" to the kernel. It was [http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2015/03/linux-kernel-s-code-conflict signed by 60 kernel maintainers] and initiated as a patch by Greg Kroah-Hartman, one of the developers involved in the [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Linux_kernel_civility_discussion Kernel Civility Incident] in July 2013.
  
*On March 8, Linus Torvalds [https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b0bc65729070b9cbdbb53ff042984a3c545a0e34 committed] a "Code of Conflict" to the kernel. It was [http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2015/03/linux-kernel-s-code-conflict signed by 60 kernel maintainers] and initiated as a patch by Greg Kroah-Hartman, one of the developers involved in the [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Linux_kernel_civility_discussion Kernel Civility Incident] in July 2013.
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*March 30, [http://file770.com/?p=21634 Context 28 is cancelled].
   
 
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=== April ===
 
* [[Europython podcast comments]]
  
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* Hugo Award nominations announced; [http://file770.com/?p=21769 ballot heavily dominated] by [http://www.dailydot.com/geek/hugo-award-nominees-sad-puppies/ Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies] efforts. ([[Science Fiction Fandom]])
 
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Revision as of 18:51, 11 April 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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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.

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2015

January

February

March

  • In a presentation on "biohacking" at the CanSecWest security conference, Jan Krissler used a closeup of a pornographic image of a woman giving a blowjob (slide #37 from the deck posted here) 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. Also, in the presentation by Patrick Wardle from Synack, one of initial slides had a table of terms being defined with each having a simple art stye depicting women's body parts/sexual activities so as to explain the security terms (the terms included implant, hooking, backdoor, etc., which are valid security terms that he sexualized). Two of the images had black bars to supposedly censor them, but he explained that he was willing to provide the slides uncensored to those who ask him for them. Additionally, he used the justification that the US is uptight about sex as a reason for it being acceptable to include sexual content in a technical security conference. Both current online copies of the slide deck have this slide removed from them. 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 reported that there was a stripper at the official conference party.
  • Michael Robertson, founder of mp3.com, tweeted that white men dominate Silicon Valley because "Science tells us men & women are biologically different including their brains and skills."
  • On March 8, Linus Torvalds committed a "Code of Conflict" to the kernel. It was signed by 60 kernel maintainers and initiated as a patch by Greg Kroah-Hartman, one of the developers involved in the Kernel Civility Incident in July 2013.
  • March 30, Context 28 is cancelled.

April

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