Elevatorgate

Definitions

A controversy of 2011 over whether the American blogger Rebecca Watson was right to suggest that a man in an elevator inviting her to his room for coffee was behaving inappropriately.

Examples

“One of the difficulties for the women whom Elevatorgate is “Storifying” lies in making a determination as to when his following them becomes obsessive enough to qualify⟳ as stalking and whether that signifies actual danger for the women he is obsessed with.”

“This divide⟳ can be traced to the infamous 2011 “Elevatorgate” incident following Skepchick founder Rebecca Watson's experience⟳ with sexual harassment at a skepticism conference.”

“Dawkins' reaction to the Elevatorgate debates was therefore not only ideological but also strategic, born of a pragmatic desire to maintain⟳ movement cohesion and ideological focus⟳.”

“Seymour would have⟳ been on stronger ground if he'd criticized Nagle for her comments on so-called New Atheism and her description of a sequence of events in 2011 that was labelled at the time as Elevatorgate.”

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