As far as culturally virtuous forms of entertainment go, attending large public lectures sits somewhere between watching Best Picture-nominated movies and finishing a Penguin Classic. Typically, lectures take less time than either of those other activities, and since they’re also more socially acceptable to Instagram, they’re right in my wheelhouse of passive cultural consumption.

I’d love to pretend that my attendance at All about Women, an event held annually at Sydney Opera House, with more than 10,000 tickets sold this year, had motives more pure than ‘I wonder if this panel will get into a shit fight about intersectional feminism’ (They didn’t. Kinda), but the reality is, I watched Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen firmly but fairly take academic, author and foreign-policy expert Anne Marie Slaughter to task for her heteronormative assumptions about the nature of family with the same semi-detached enjoyment I might experience at home, doing a bad job of housework while listening to a podcast.