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List of Women Characters in Video Games
(Characters whose names are bolded are characters that are/were protagonists or playable for most of at least one of the games they were featured in.) These are the female characters who are protagonists -
Intersectionality
Intersectionality is a concept often used in critical theories to describe the ways in which oppressive institutions (racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, xenophobia, classism, etc.) are interconnected and cannot be examined separately from one another -
Nice Guy syndrome
Nice Guy™ is a term in Internet discourse describing a man or teenage boy with a fixation on a friendship building over time into a romance, most stereotypically by providing a woman with emotional -
LoversLab
LoversLab is a video game modding community with almost no guidelines or regulations regarding acceptable content. Whilst hosted content varies in extremity and is not universally sexist, the popularity and widespread nature of that which -
Mitigating internet trollstorms
Being the target of mass online and offline harassment, whether because of sexism, racism, or other issues, can be overwhelming and devastating. This document intends to provide actionable guidance for people who are being attacked -
Conference anti-harassment/Policy
This is an example anti-harassment policy suitable for most open source, computing, or technology-related conferences. It may be adopted unchanged or tweaked to suit your conference. Why have an official anti-harassment policy -
Good sexism comebacks
Feminists and allies may want to arm themselves with good sexism comebacks in advance, particularly in person. Note that this page is not a guarantee! These comebacks may not work. Or in a particular situation -
TERF
TERF is an acronym for Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist. Sometimes, "exclusionary" is expanded as "eliminationist" or "exterminationist" instead to more accurately convey the degree to which TERFs advocate for harm towards trans people, specifically trans -
Geek Feminism Wiki
Geek Feminism Wiki FAQ| Feminism 101| Myths| History Communities of geek women Recreational Medievalism| Cosplay| Demoscene| Atheism and skepticism| Hacker culture| more… -
Toxic femininity
Toxic femininity is a term used by Men's rights advocacy activists to construct a False equivalence between Toxic masculinity (a manifestation of Patriarchy that both harms men, and causes men to be violent and -
Timeline of incidents
See Timeline of geek feminism for the development of geek feminism itself. (Mary Gardiner explains the reason for this list in Why we document, originally on the Geek Feminism blog.) -
T-shirts
When geek groups or events, such as technical conferences, user groups, etc, produce t-shirts as "swag" ("stuff we all get") for attendees, to sell to members, or to promote products such as software or -
List of women executives at tech companies
"List of women executives at tech companies" article likely out of date. Due to the Geek Feminism Wiki being in archival mode, this article is likely out of date, reflecting the state of the -
List of women in FLOSS
"List of women in FLOSS" article likely out of date. Due to the Geek Feminism Wiki being in archival mode, this article is likely out of date, reflecting the state of the world circa -
Sexism and Racism in Venture Capital
Physical and sexual violence[] Michael Arrington (founder of TechCrunch and founding partner of CrunchFund) has multiple allegations of physical and sexual violence towards past partners., Dan Bilzerian (venture capitalist and trust-fund child of corporate -
EMACS virgins joke
Richard Stallman (RMS) gave a keynote at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit in July 2009 in which he described "EMACS virgins" as "women who have never used EMACS" and said that it was a sacred -
Conference anti-harassment/Responding to reports
This page describes how to respond to reports of conference harassment. The key to responding to conference harassment is having a policy that forbids harassment. See the Conference anti-harassment pages for a sample policy -
Conference anti-harassment/Policy resources
This is a list of resources for conference organizers considering adopting an anti-harassment policy for their conference. The example policy itself is located here: Conference anti-harassment/Policy -
Media test
A media test, also known as a critique test, is a means by which reviewers of media works may test the relevance or utility of a film or other narrative work. Many of the tests -
Tone argument
"Just because you sound polite, doesn't mean your words aren't hurtful. Just because you sound acerbic, doesn't mean your words aren't kind." -- Comrade Squinky "If you tread on someone's -
Terms to designate groups for women
Are you founding a women geeks group? Then you'll probably need a name. Here are some words/terms/names you could use to show that it is for women. When choosing a name, it -
Trigger warning
Trigger warnings are customary in some feminist and other Safe spaces. They are designed to prevent unaware encountering of certain materials or subjects for the benefit of people who have an extremely strong and damaging -
Joss Whedon
Joss Whedon is the creator of several popular television shows including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy spin-off Angel, Firefly and its followup movie Serenity, Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, and Dollhouse. He also -
Gaming
Women are believed to be underrepresented by numbers in many types of geeky entertainment, including roleplaying and computer gaming. This page covers primarily computer gaming communities online. A number of video games are sexually explicit -
Autism is to blame
The fallacy that "neurodivergent people are to blame for sexism/harassment" is a common one in discussions about harassment and other sexist behaviour in geek communities. The fallacy is that neurodivergent people are not capable
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