This begs the question why you attended, apparently against your better impulses, in the first place? Peer pressure? Professorial pressure? Morbid curiosity? Other? In any event, it was a learning experience, which is after all, why we attend college, law school, and other academic niches in the first place.
I never go to those things, and usually I can avoid them because they’re held across the street in the federal building.
This one was held in our building, on our floor. My boss sent out three emails about it, each one increasingly suggesting our attendance. The last one nearly made it a command performance. The director’s assistant announced it over the loudspeaker, and our EEO rep came running through the building reminding everyone to show up. Serious pressure was brought to bear, this year more than any other. I have a theory about that.
Against my better judgement, I went. I expected it to be about Obama, but I wasn’t prepared for it to be that bad.
In hindsight, I should have dug in my heels and refused to go. Next year I’ll take leave if I have to.
And before some DUmmie lurker calls me a racist, I’m avoiding Women’s History Month as well. :-)