Posts tagged ‘violence’

This is not one of those entries I am thrilled in my soul to have to write, but here’s why “hit him!” is not a solution for everyone and definitely does not replace the need for people with authority to take a stand against harassment.

More Wikipedia gender stats, encouragement to attend tech events, femme fatale gaming violence as porn, and more.

For the Linux geeks: Lyz discovers that Computer Engineer Barbie has a penguin oursin responds to “Why don’t you just hit him?” with another argument against: If this sort of thing happens within a social ...

Warning: this post and links from it discuss both harassment and violence, imagined and real. Valerie has had a lot of comments and private email in response to her conference anti-harassment policy suggesting that a ...

Trigger Warning: This post deals with the École Polytechnique massacre and violence against women.

My Fault, I’m Female is collecting short personal stories of experiences of sexism. The Westboro Baptist Church (famously and aggressively homophobic) protested at Comic-Con for “worship of false idols”. Comics Alliance reports on the cosplay ...

Author Info: Quixotess is a geek of wordplay, numberplay, names, history, easy logic puzzles, IRC, various works of fiction (particularly speculative fiction), certain aspects of theatre, and local geology. Not computers, though. She blogs at ...