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List of Women Characters in Video Games
"List of Women Characters in Video Games" article likely out of date. Due to the Geek Feminism Wiki being in archival mode, this article is likely out of date, reflecting the state of the -
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 -
Lewis' Law
Lewis' law was first articulated by Helen Lewis on Twitter in August 2012: "Comments on any article about feminism justify feminism." Helen Lewis is an anti-intersectional feminist; her views are diametrically opposed to the -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Sexist humor
A lot of offensive or marginalising incidents in geek communities are, supposedly, intended as Humor. These jokes, aimed at a presumed-male audience, exclude women even when they do not explicitly insult them. The FLOSSPOLS -
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 -
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 -
Missing stair
Missing stair is a term coined by blogger Cliff Pervocracy in 2012 to describe an abuser or harasser who is tolerated in a community, even though their misdeeds are well known. The analogy is that -
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.) -
Who is harmed by a "Real Names" policy?
This page lists groups of people who are disadvantaged by any policy which bans Pseudonymity and requires so-called "Real names" (more properly, legal names). Often theses policies attempt to reduce or eliminate the veil -
Allies workshop
Often, when a sexist incident happens, we are so busy being shocked and amazed that we can't react quickly. Sometimes days can go by before we figure out what to do. This is true -
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 -
Strong female characters
Strong female characters are usually considered a desirable thing in geek media such as science fiction, comic books, etc. A common criticism is that (some) strong female characters are one-dimensional. -
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 -
Hugo Awards
The Hugo Awards are a set of awards presented annually for the best science fiction and fantasy works and achievements, as selected by members of Worldcon. The percentage of the nominated fiction that's written
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