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After atheist blogger Rebecca Watson experienced unwanted advances from a man in an elevator at an atheist conference, Richard Dawkins told her to 'stop whining'
In the video, [Watson] mentioned an incident where she had felt unsafe when a man had propositioned her in an elevator late at night. Despite the incident only being a minor topic in the video, it resulted in misogynistic harassment from atheists.
Almost immediately after the vlog appeared, Watson began receiving violent threats on her blog and through e-mail and Twitter. [...] In some respects, Elevatorgate is an extreme example of sexism in the New Atheist Movement because the on-line posts about Watson and her supporters were so venomous.
In what came to be known as Elevatorgate, atheist blogger Rebecca Watson criticized sexism within the community after she was propositioned in an elevator by a man and fellow World Atheist Convention attendee. She faced a concerted harassment campaign for speaking out about her experience.
In the video, [Watson] mentioned an incident where she had felt unsafe when a man had propositioned her in an elevator late at night. Despite the incident only being a minor topic in the video, it resulted in misogynistic harassment from atheists.
Almost immediately after the vlog appeared, Watson began receiving violent threats on her blog and through e-mail and Twitter. [...] In some respects, Elevatorgate is an extreme example of sexism in the New Atheist Movement because the on-line posts about Watson and her supporters were so venomous.
