[0815test]

> The conference scene feels like such a hostile environment.

It's a hostile environment either way - even the male speaker in this whole drama was widely known as "a male chauvinist who persecutes and intimidates women at sector conferences" - which is why he was so unwelcome in the first place! But sunlight is the best disinfectant - throw out with prejudice ANYONE who is publicly known to engage in intimidating behavior, whether they're of the "male chauvinist" or the "SJW" sort. Let the pox fall on both houses.

(edit for the avoidance of doubt: I mean the dude who was disinvited by OP, of course.)

[lawnchair_larry]

It was a woman who was disinvited.