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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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2012

  • January
    • MikeeUSA harasses women FLOSS developers again.
    • ConFoo was sponsored by the adult entertainment industry.
  • March
  • April
  • May
    • Kleiner Perkins gender discrimination lawsuit: On May 10, 2012, Ellen Pao filed a gender discrimination suit against Kleiner Perkins. In the suit, she alleged that the firm has engaged in systematic discrimination against women by failing to promote them comparably to men, by compensating them less, and by failing to act upon sexual harassment complaints.
    • NYT op ed on harassment: The NYTimes published an op ed on the suit that opened with the assertion that "Men invented the Internet." The article also claimed that sexual harassment is rare or nonexistent in Silicon Valley: "You don’t really hear about randiness and mistreatment of women."
  • June
    • On June 1, 2012, an all female singing group at the European Ruby Conference in Amsterdam were subjected to sexist abuse on Twitter. See blog post
    • ASUS shows its backside:On June 4, 2012, computer manufacturer ASUS sent a sexist tweet from the official company twitter account. The tweet, which included a photo of a woman showing off an ASUS computer at a computer expo along with inappropriate comments about the woman's appearance, has since been removed.
    • Feminist Frequency Kickstarter backlash: Around June 5th and 6th, 2012, Feminist Frequency blogger Anita Sarkeesian's Wikipedia page was repeatedly vandalized and she was the target of misogynist statements and threats on YouTube and many other online forums for her Kickstarter project to support a videoblogging series of discussions about tropes and women in video games.
    • Microsoft Azure Cloud Song: On June 7, 2012, Microsoft has opened NDS 2012 with a song and a dance by female performance featuring lyrics ~approx"Micro and Soft are words that do not apply to my Penis", as well as mentioning names of various street drugs. During the opening presentation of Azure Cloud Platform. Somebody please get in touch with microsoft. YouTube video .
    • Summercon Burlesque: On June 9, 2012, the SummerCon conference provided, as entertainment, female burlesque dancers. Blog post.
  • July
    • Beat Her Up Game created in continuing Feminist Frequency Kickstarter backlash. Game creator Ben Spurr outed by Steph Graber. Graber receives multiple rape and death threats.
    • 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"
    • A Readercon attendee 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.)
    • 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 PyLadies group at EuroPython 2012. Lynn Root (a keynote speaker and founder of PyLadies) blogged twice about the incident.
    • Joe Peacock writes a Fake geek girls condemnation for a CNN blog
  • August
  • September
    • A woman was sexually assaulted during Mojang's Minecraft party at the Penny Arcade Expo. PAX security staff refused to respond to her complaint.
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