As an audience member, I decide to go to a talk based on the speaker. If the audience, culprits are mostly men, want to share their stream of consciousness, derail the talk, I'm not interested. Both the speaker and the host have a duty to varying degrees to stop this happening.
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If you don't know how to host, don't host. If you want to share your stream of consciousness, write a blog or live tweet the talk: do not derail a talk so much it becomes about your questions all the time. Basically
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INB4: this isn't to say clarification questions are bad. Especially when the speaker welcomes them explicitly, they are great! I'm talking about totally ruining the flow of a talk, causing the actual topic to be diverted. No coincidence it happens to junior women the most!
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There's a reason the serious questions are at the end.
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My owner once saw two men gang up on a woman speaker so badly that she never got past slide 2. My owner was very junior at the time, so felt powerless to stop it. This is why I am often filled with vodka instead of tea.
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I'm so sorry.
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