at an event at Devconnect this year, I was on stage giving a talk with a colleague, and an audience member asked a question. It was a question about a topic I was extremely familiar with and well capable of answering. As I began to answer it, the (male) audience member interrupted, shook his hand at me in a dismissive shooing gesture, turned his gaze to my (male) colleague on stage with me, and said, without looking at me, "this is a technical question" and waited for my male colleague to answer. This is NOT my typical experience in crypto, but it is one that leaves an impression when it happens. I'm certain that many people in the room don't clock something like this when it happens. I'm certain that it misinforms other audience members about my knowledge level. Yet, when these things happen, my best path forward is to ignore it and move on because my goal is to not distract from the topic at hand - I've chosen to give a talk because I want the audience to digest it, not talk about some idiot's aggressive bigotry. Anyway, nothing to correct here. Just sharing that some people are idiots.