Merge pull request #17 from todogroup/add-back-explicit-definitions

Add explicit definitions from Geek Feminsim

index.md

@@ -11,18 +11,37 @@ Our open source community strives to:
 * **Be welcoming**: We strive to be a community that welcomes and supports people of all backgrounds and identities. This includes, but is not limited to members of any race, ethnicity, culture, national origin, colour, immigration status, social and economic class, educational level, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, size, family status, political belief, religion, and mental and physical ability.
 * **Be considerate**: Your work will be used by other people, and you in turn will depend on the work of others. Any decision you take will affect users and colleagues, and you should take those consequences into account when making decisions. Remember that we're a world-wide community, so you might not be communicating in someone else's primary language.
 * **Be respectful**:  Not all of us will agree all the time, but disagreement is no excuse for poor behavior and poor manners. We might all experience some frustration now and then, but we cannot allow that frustration to turn into a personal attack. It’s important to remember that a community where people feel uncomfortable or threatened is not a productive one.
-* **Be careful in the words that you choose**: we are a community of professionals, and we conduct ourselves professionally. Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other participants. Harassment and other exclusionary behavior aren't acceptable. This includes, but is not limited to:
-  * Violent threats or language directed against another person.
-  * Discriminatory jokes and language.
-  * Posting sexually explicit or violent material.
-  * Posting (or threatening to post) other people's personally identifying information ("doxing").
-  * Personal insults, especially those using racist or sexist terms.
-  * Unwelcome sexual attention.
-  * Advocating for, or encouraging, any of the above behavior.
-  * Repeated harassment of others. In general, if someone asks you to stop, then stop.
+* **Be careful in the words that you choose**: we are a community of professionals, and we conduct ourselves professionally. Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other participants. Harassment and other exclusionary behavior aren't acceptable.
 * **When we disagree, try to understand why**: Disagreements, both social and technical, happen all the time. It is important that we resolve disagreements and differing views constructively. Remember that we’re different. The strength of our community comes from its diversity, people from a wide range of backgrounds. Different people have different perspectives on issues. Being unable to understand why someone holds a viewpoint doesn’t mean that they’re wrong. Don’t forget that it is human to err and blaming each other doesn’t get us anywhere. Instead, focus on helping to resolve issues and learning from mistakes.
 
-This code is not exhaustive or complete. It serves to distill our common understanding of a collaborative, shared environment, and goals. We expect it to be followed in spirit as much as in the letter.
+## Definitions
+
+Harassment includes, but is not limited to:
+
+- Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, race, age, regional discrimination, political or religious affiliation
+- Unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and employment
+- Deliberate misgendering. This includes deadnaming or persistently using a pronoun that does not correctly reflect a person's gender identity. You must address people by the name they give you when not addressing them by their username or handle
+- Physical contact and simulated physical contact (eg, textual descriptions like “*hug*” or “*backrub*”) without consent or after a request to stop
+- Threats of violence, both physical and psychological
+- Incitement of violence towards any individual, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm
+- Deliberate intimidation
+- Stalking or following
+- Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes
+- Sustained disruption of discussion
+- Unwelcome sexual attention, including gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behaviour
+- Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others
+- Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease
+- Deliberate “outing” of any aspect of a person’s identity without their consent except as necessary to protect others from intentional abuse
+- Publication of non-harassing private communication
+
+Our open source community prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. We will not act on complaints regarding:
+
+- ‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and ‘cisphobia’
+- Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as “leave me alone,” “go away,” or “I’m not discussing this with you.
+- Refusal to explain or debate social justice concepts
+- Communicating in a ‘tone’ you don’t find congenial
+- Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions
+
 
 ### Diversity Statement
 
@@ -42,8 +61,6 @@ include them as well. Your account of what occurred, and if you believe the inci
 
 After filing a report, a representative will contact you personally. If the person who is harassing you is part of the response team, they will recuse themselves from handling your incident. A representative will then review the incident, follow up with any additional questions, and make a decision as to how to respond. We will respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting victims of abuse.
 
-Anyone asked to stop unacceptable behavior is expected to comply immediately. If an individual engages in unacceptable behavior, the representative may take any action they deem appropriate, up to and including a permanent ban from our community without warning.
-
 ### Attribution & Acknowledgements
 
 We all stand on the shoulders of giants across many open source communities.  We'd like to thank the communities and projects that established code of conducts and diversity statements as our inspiration: