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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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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