Atheists turning to cult behaviour?

[Alex K]

Ok, your above posts are written a bit too crudely for me to tell that you don't mean those things

Yes, I apologize for my writing. I'm not able to express myself well enough, or maybe I could respond better to the scrutiny if this was a conversation face to face.

Yes, that's sexist. Which conferences were that and how did this fact (that they are not taken seriously) manifest itself?

The ones I'd been to were get togethers at my uni and some talks in my city. There was little or no interest in the male audience when a woman speaker spoke, they followed up by complimenting her looks, or how "sexy" a woman atheist was. Some harassed these women on and on for their numbers. There was almost no interest in the content of their talks and jokes about their vaginas were common. I know a lot more instances, but I'm not able to remember them right now.

I've heard of such things as well. That's classical sexism in my book, and it is probably not related to atheism. It is a known phenomenon in tech conferences for example. Even Hollywood writers are encouraged not to give too much important dialogue to women characters because audiences "stop paying attention".
Question to you: in which sense should we as atheists do something about that? Who is in a position to do something? As someone attending, one might try to speak up. Organizers?