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This post compares the allegations with the harmless actual quotes:

http://atom-morgan.github.io/in-defense-of-douglas-crockford

This appears to have been the instigator:

https://twitter.com/nexxylove/status/771503661956501504

I don't get how either of those quotes could be seen as attacking anyone.

Congratulations, you've just discovered the truth behind the entire women in tech moral panic.

Maybe because you are mentally sane.

I don't want to look for it right now, but somebody dug up a "do you have the gonads for monads" speech and was offended by the mention of gonads. I think the conference that uninvited him ended up reinviting him.

side note: This happened without his involvement in social media at all. Others, collectively, used social media to get that effect.