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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  "List of Women Characters in Video Games" article likely out of date. Due to the Geek Feminism Wiki being in archival mode, this article is likely out of date, reflecting the state of the

  https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/List_of_Women_Characters_in_Video_Games

• 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

  https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Intersectionality

• 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

  https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Nice_Guy_syndrome

• 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

  https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/LoversLab

• 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…

  https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Geek_Feminism_Wiki

• Toxic masculinity

  Toxic masculinity is one of the ways in which Patriarchy is harmful to men. It refers to the socially-constructed attitudes that describe the masculine gender role as violent, unemotional, sexually aggressive, and so forth

  https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Toxic_masculinity

• Zipper incident

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• 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

  https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/T-shirts

• 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

  https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Terms_to_designate_groups_for_women

• 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

  https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Trigger_warning

• 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

  https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Good_sexism_comebacks

• 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

  https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Toxic_femininity

• Economically Secure Tech Worker Privilege Checklist

  Varying levels of economic security are represented in this checklist. Not every item is unique to technology, but all of them affect power relations between employers and employees, and between people who are ostensibly each

  https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Economically_Secure_Tech_Worker_Privilege_Checklist

• 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

  https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/List_of_women_executives_at_tech_companies

• 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.)

  https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents

• Male Programmer Privilege Checklist

  The original version of the list was by Kake, inspired by a post on the London Perlmongers mailing list. A number of other privilege checklists also served as inspiration. From 2006-2011, the master version

  https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Male_Programmer_Privilege_Checklist

• 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

  https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Who_is_harmed_by_a_"Real_Names"_policy?

• Sexism and Racism in Venture Capital

  Physical and sexual violence[edit| edit source] 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

  https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Sexism_and_Racism_in_Venture_Capital

• 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

  https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/EMACS_virgins_joke

• 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

  https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Media_test

• 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

  https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Conference_anti-harassment/Policy

• 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

  https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Tone_argument

• Star Trek

  Star Trek is one of the longest-running and most popular television franchises in history. It is a science fiction series that deals primarily with the human condition and the relationship of life forms to

  https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Star_Trek

• Not all women are feminists

  Women and girls are systematically oppressed. Feminism aims to end sexist oppression. Yet sometimes women, including geek women, do things that are anti-feminist. This section catalogs reasons why a geek woman might be — or

  https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Not_all_women_are_feminists

• 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

  https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Joss_Whedon