As for being kicked out, that's for the better. Yeah, it took me long enough to get over it but really, those days are gone. I should've left on Jan 8, 2013 when it was made clear how much we've grown apart. I didn't, both the community and I suffered for it. Ending it was good, even if took me close to two years of grieving to get past it.
I fundamentally disagree with calling the CWG "moralizing busybodies", see my take on them https://medium.com/@chx/women-of-drupal-ive-failed-you-and-i... here. What I described there goes for any tech conference organizer: when you are given a chance to amplify a voice, make sure it belongs to someone who deserves their voice amplified. It never was an empty consideration but past #metoo it matters more than ever.
Once you have your eyes open... really, I was watching a pair ice skating on the TV while in the dentist chair (otherwise I wouldn't watch such) and it was appalling how much more skin the clothing of the woman showed than the male. Everywhere we sexualize women. Let me remind you of that time when the South Park creators went to the Oscars in female clothing http://www.trbimg.com/img-535ac5e8/turbine/lat-oscarmoment-l... this?
Having been to Lambdaconf, I can attest to it being an amazing event where people can nerd out shamelessly about functional programming without any bullshit or hostility. I highly recommend it. Easy to forget this is what all of open source used to be like, before the sociopaths moved in.
The supreme irony is the comment above seems to come from a guy kicked out of the Drupal community by the same kind of moralizing busybodies, for being too neuro-atypical and abrasive...