"Elevatorgate" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2015, Karla Mantilla, Gendertrolling: How Misogyny Went Viral:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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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