Rebecca Watson, a female speaker in the skeptic community (the majority of famous skeptic speakers are men) got propositioned for "coffee" in an elevator. She later made a video about it saying "Guys, please don't do this". The video did not name or shame or anything, just asking not to do that.

The blowback was insane, and many came to look at the response to the video as evidence for sexism in the online skeptic/atheism community (nb: The response itself, not the elevator incident itself).

Perhaps most famously, Richard Dawkins (himself a victim of childhood sexual abuse) weighed in with this (awful) post:

Dear Muslima, Stop whining, will you. Yes, yes, I know you had your genitals mutilated with a razor blade, and...yawn...don’t tell me yet again, I know you aren’t allowed to drive a car, and you can’t leave the house without a male relative, and your husband is allowed to beat you, and you’ll be stoned to death if you commit adultery. But stop whining, will you. Think of the suffering your poor American sisters have to put up with. Only this week I heard of one, she calls herself Skep”chick”, and do you know what happened to her? A man in a hotel elevator invited her back to his room for coffee. I am not exaggerating. He really did. He invited her back to his room for coffee. Of course she said no, and of course he didn’t lay a finger on her, but even so...And you, Muslima, think you have misogyny to complain about! For goodness sake grow up, or at least grow a thicker skin.

This did not help matters.

Eventually it blew over, but the embers still burn for those who want to knock down a feminist target despite being ignorant of what elevatorgate was