A Male Host Interrupted A Female Physicist So Much The Audience Intervened

When a panel of the brightest minds in science are discussing the depths of the universe, it’s typical for the audience to be in awe. However, one audience member during one such panel on cosmology had a different takeaway: Sexism is real and it’s happening right now. While watching a panel titled “Pondering the Imponderable: The Biggest Questions of Cosmology,” Marilee Talkington noticed that the moderator wasn’t giving physicist Veronika Hubeny, a professor at UC Davis and the only female on the panel, her fair share of speaking time. So when the moderator, New Yorker contributor Jim Holt, finally asked Hubeny a question about her research in string theory and quantum gravity, then immediately began speaking over her to explain it himself, Talkington was furious. Fed up with the continuous mansplaining, Talkington interrupted Holt by yelling loudly, “Let her speak, please!” The crowd applauded the request.  “I guess if there was a ‘last straw,’ it was my body literally shaking,” Talkington told HuffPost. “I felt like a teakettle right on the verge of boiling over and screaming. And yet, I knew I couldn’t scream.” As seen in the below, Holt immediately apologized after Talkington spoke out. Then he yielded to Hubeny who discussed her mind-blowing theories on gravity duality. Holt’s interaction with Hubeny begins at the 1:01:55 mark in the YouTube video below. Talkington i...
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