Increasingly, there has been a focus on creating democratic standards and procedures in order to best facilitate open exchange of information and communication online—a goal that fits neatly within the feminist aim to democratize content creation and community. Collaborative websites, such as blogs, social networks, and, as focused on in this Article, Wikipedia, represent both a Cyberspace community entirely outside the strictures of the traditional (intellectual) proprietary paradigm and one that professes to truly embody the philosophy of a completely open, free, and democratic resource for all. In theory, collaborative websites are the solution that social activists, Intellectual Property opponents and feminist theorists have been waiting for.

Unfortunately, this article is realizing that this utopian dream does not exist as anticipated: the net is neither neutral nor open to everyone. More importantly, these sites are not egalitarian as they facilitate new ways to exclude and subordinate women.

This Article innovatively argues that the virtual world systematically excludes women by using two-stage model: first, by controlling websites and filtering out women; and second, by exposing women who survived the first stage to a hostile environment. Apparently, even the most open and egalitarian sites are gender biased. Wikipedia serves as an excellent example to demonstrate this phenomenon. The article explores Wikipedia along with other cyberspace occurrences in order to demonstrate the execution of the model which results in excluding women from the virtual sphere with all the implications thereof.