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* [[Comic Book Fandom]]
  
* [[Comic Book Fandom]]
 
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* Universities
 
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** [[AmazonLISAFail]] ([[Technology industry]])
  
** [[AmazonLISAFail]] ([[Technology industry]])
 
** [[DojoCon thongs]] ([[FLOSS]])
  
** [[DojoCon thongs]] ([[FLOSS]])
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** [https://twitter.com/cfowlermsft Cory Fowler] a Community Leader in Ontario and MVP for Microsoft partakes in online harassment of women by [http://www.thatswhatshetweets.com/users/SyntaxC4/ facilitating spreading of sexual innuendo jokes] and [http://twitpic.com/79mdfe promoting the use of the word brogrammer] as a way for [http://twitpic.com/6m04fa male programmers] to bond an network.
 
* December:
  
* December:
 
** [[Women underrepresented in Modern Science Writing]] ([[Science]]) [http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2009/12/the_science_boys_club_strikes.php]
  
** [[Women underrepresented in Modern Science Writing]] ([[Science]]) [http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2009/12/the_science_boys_club_strikes.php]
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** [[0xB16B00B5/BIGBOOBS Constant in Microsoft Hyper-V]]: a Linux kernel contributor discovers that the constant used to identify a Linux Guest to the Hyper-V host is "0xB16B00B5"
  
** [[0xB16B00B5/BIGBOOBS Constant in Microsoft Hyper-V]]: a Linux kernel contributor discovers that the constant used to identify a Linux Guest to the Hyper-V host is "0xB16B00B5"
 
** [[Al Billings threats|Al Billings threatens his colleagues at Mozilla]]
  
** [[Al Billings threats|Al Billings threatens his colleagues at Mozilla]]
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**A [[Readercon]] attendee [[René and Readercon|reports René Walling]] to the RC committee. They decide to ignore their zero tolerance policy and ban the offender for two years, citing the need to educate men in how to not harass women. (They later recanted and enforced the policy.)
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**A [[Readercon]] attendee [[René and Readercon|reports René Walling]] to the RC committee. They decide to ignore their zero tolerance policy and ban the offender for two years, citing the need to educate men in how to not harass women. (They later recanted and enforced the policy, issuing [http://readercon.org/publicstatement.htm a public statement and commitment to future actions].)
 
**[[Geek feminist harassment at OSCON]]: several OSCON attendees report harassment by (self-described) members of the geek feminist community.
  
**[[Geek feminist harassment at OSCON]]: several OSCON attendees report harassment by (self-described) members of the geek feminist community.
 
**An offensive tweet was made against the [http://www.pyladies.com/ PyLadies] group at [https://ep2012.europython.eu EuroPython 2012]. Lynn Root (a keynote speaker and founder of PyLadies) [http://www.roguelynn.com/words/really/ blogged] [http://www.roguelynn.com/words/a-memorable-europython-for-the-better/ twice] about the incident.
  
**An offensive tweet was made against the [http://www.pyladies.com/ PyLadies] group at [https://ep2012.europython.eu EuroPython 2012]. Lynn Root (a keynote speaker and founder of PyLadies) [http://www.roguelynn.com/words/really/ blogged] [http://www.roguelynn.com/words/a-memorable-europython-for-the-better/ twice] about the incident.
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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 [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.
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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 [https://twitter.com/cfowlermsft Cory Fowler] and other Microsoft Evangelists 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 a strip club as an end of Conference celebration. Cory Fowler under his old [http://www.thatswhatshetweets.com/users/SyntaxC4/ @syntaxc4] account confirmed over twitter that the event happened (in 2014), Cory has since closed that account (associated with other brogrammer issues see 2009)
 
** [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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** [[SFF harassment revelations 2013]]
  
** [[SFF harassment revelations 2013]]
 
** [[Anti-Pyladies accounts on GitHub]]
  
** [[Anti-Pyladies accounts on GitHub]]
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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]])
   
 
* July
  
* July
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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].)
  
** 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].)
 
** [[Cosplayer assault at San Diego Comic-Con]]
  
** [[Cosplayer assault at San Diego Comic-Con]]
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** [https://twitter.com/cfowlermsft Cory Fowler] has an incident involving Seattle Police and a female programmer in tech, the matter was sorted out in a civil agreement.
 
** Madison Young, a member of the steering committee for [[Mothership HackerMoms]], [http://geekfeminism.org/2014/08/06/madison-young-rape-apologism-and-hackermoms/ engaged in] [[derailment]] when a rape-apologist video she had made resurfaced.
  
** Madison Young, a member of the steering committee for [[Mothership HackerMoms]], [http://geekfeminism.org/2014/08/06/madison-young-rape-apologism-and-hackermoms/ engaged in] [[derailment]] when a rape-apologist video she had made resurfaced.
   
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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?"
  
* 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?"
 
* 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.
  
* 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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* [[FOSDEM]] was criticised (e.g. by [http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2015/02/01/the-fosdem-conundrum/ Sarah Mei]) for not having a proper [[Code of Conduct]], including by keynote [[Karen Sandler]]. The organisers [https://twitter.com/fosdem/status/561885201383821312 acknowledged] the criticism and stated their intention to improve.
   
 
=== March ===
  
=== March ===
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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 ===
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* [[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 13:36, 10 May 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

  • 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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