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Today I visited the Elektorlive event in the Evoluon in Eindhoven.
Some 1500 people had pre-registered, but the whether conditions were not optimal. It was the first snow day in this winter. But more than 1000 people did show up!
Of course most of the people there were men. There were only an handful of women and even those had only come along with their friend or husband. I think I saw only one other woman by herself. So pretty soon someone spoke to me and told me what he was thinking: “Hey, a woman here? I am surprised!“
Well, at least he had recognized me as a woman from a distance.
But as we were talking, he soon figured out there was something more going on and said: “Oooww, aha, now I understand…“
“Yes, I used to be a man“, I admitted.
“So you are a transvestite?“
“No, I am a transsexual, that is quite something different!“
“It is??“
So there I was again, educating him about the differences…
Of course one could ask what on Earth I was doing at such a male-dominated event, but hey, i do work for Elektor, and I saw this as a great opportunity to finally meet this client I have been working for for eight years in real life! And I am simply interested in electronics. It is my profession!
I had carefully planned the lectures I wanted to see and that was quite a tight schedule; I had had to make some difficult choices, because it was simply impossible to see everything that interested me. Over the next few days I will cover some of the things I have seen at Elektorlive in seperate blog entries.
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