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There's plenty of actual harrasment to be found in this list of incidents: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/index.php?title=Timeline_of_incidents http://geekfemini

by mtrimpe 13y ago

There's plenty of actual harrasment to be found in this list of incidents: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/index.php?title=Timeline_of_incidents http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/index.php?title=Timeline_of_in... Keep in mind that this is just the subset of women who were strong and determined enough to come out and risk retribution and damaging their career prospects.

yummyfajitas 13y ago
It's hard to take seriously a list of incidents that starts with "a model was photographed, and the photo was later cropped and used as a test image in image processing." Jumping to the very bottom, I see the Paul Graham non-incident and gendered pronouns. (Admittedly, I didn't read too carefully after seeing obvious nonsense everywhere I looked. Perhaps a list which is curated and has silliness removed would be a more useful citation, or at least pointing out which incidents on this list you feel are serious.)
- mtrimpe 13y ago
  How about this one from October 2013 where a 25-year old woman gets talked into doing a body shot in a bar and ends up getting fingered by her boss while lying on the bar? http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Codemash_sexual_assault http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Codemash_sexual_assault That's when limiting myself to bar-related incidents in direct technology events. If you include conferences here's a full on attempted rape from last year: https://web.archive.org/web/20130627000201/http://georgiaweidman.com/wordpress/guess-you-thought-i-was-someone-to-mess-with/ https://web.archive.org/web/20130627000201/http://georgiawei... I'm even excluding the comic cons because they're arguably not that tech-related but harrasment there seems even more prevalent. Notice how they also all refer to archive links? That's due to a mix of for fear of the consequences of having these posts be at the top of Google when searching for the victims name and straight-up libel suits being initiated by the perpetrators.

by mtrimpe 13y ago

yummyfajitas 13y ago

It's hard to take seriously a list of incidents that starts with "a model was photographed, and the photo was later cropped and used as a test image in image processing." Jumping to the very bottom, I see the Paul Graham non-incident and gendered pronouns. (Admittedly, I didn't read too carefully after seeing obvious nonsense everywhere I looked. Perhaps a list which is curated and has silliness removed would be a more useful citation, or at least pointing out which incidents on this list you feel are serious.)

mtrimpe 13y ago
How about this one from October 2013 where a 25-year old woman gets talked into doing a body shot in a bar and ends up getting fingered by her boss while lying on the bar? http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Codemash_sexual_assault http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Codemash_sexual_assault That's when limiting myself to bar-related incidents in direct technology events. If you include conferences here's a full on attempted rape from last year: https://web.archive.org/web/20130627000201/http://georgiaweidman.com/wordpress/guess-you-thought-i-was-someone-to-mess-with/ https://web.archive.org/web/20130627000201/http://georgiawei... I'm even excluding the comic cons because they're arguably not that tech-related but harrasment there seems even more prevalent. Notice how they also all refer to archive links? That's due to a mix of for fear of the consequences of having these posts be at the top of Google when searching for the victims name and straight-up libel suits being initiated by the perpetrators.