olivecrest

So it’s important that people who are elderly or have young children feel safe.

If you want to get in conflict with police please do that at a different event that is intended to be disruptive. Please let the peaceful protest be a place where everyone is welcomed and we can attract huge numbers of law abiding citizens.

100% civil disobedience will be needed. This is not the day for that. This is a “big tent” day. There will be plenty of opportunities to cause trouble- but if you cause trouble at this one - that I am attending with my 87 year old father - he will never come with me to another event.

So please don’t. Please disrupt a different event.

If you get overwhelmed with stimulus in general headphones - maybe just in one ear - that don’t block outside noise but can play something familiar might help.

Just gives you something to focus on that IS comfortable when other aspects might not be. Music or meditation or podcast or whatever is familiar reassuring. Also battery backup.

I am interested in protest but not in violence so made a cloth sash that says “peaceful protest” on one side and “nonviolence” on the other. Just to help keep myself identifiable as someone who is not looking for a fight.

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Although more people than ever are taking estrogen and testosterone - either age related or because they are transitioning. I would imagine there could be some research done on how introducing those things results in changes compared to a control group of folks who are similar and don’t take them.

I mean I know so little that I don’t even know how much I don’t know. There is just a lot of reluctance to even ask questions for fear of being called sexist, and I am a fan of scientific curiosity.

I would 100% go if I knew all my fellow protesters were only going to protest.

Lots of people are very angry- which is valid and I get it - but personally I am not interested in violence or destruction of property. It’s hard to know if those things will be part of a protest or not.

I have gone and will go to protests, but fear that they will turn chaotic makes me less likely to go. Also not at all convinced that small ones are effective, and big ones are rare.

This is SUPER helpful and thoughtful and I thank you.

Like when we start doing research in a nuanced and scientific way then the folks who aren’t part of the scientific community can very easily “wildly gesture” racism and say “it’s science”.

So it is not that there aren’t differences, it’s that if we aren’t very careful then valid research can get inaccurately used to support racism/sexism.

I don’t remember the details but I feel like way back the president of Harvard said something about sex differences and got fired and what he said didn’t seem incorrect to me. It really bothered me. But maybe it was more “in a leadership position you need to be aware of how people will twist your words” than “what you said was true but we want to pretend it’s not”.

Sincere question- I am a girl. I program/work in tech.
I can say that on average women are shorter than me and nobody has issues. But if I say that on average women aren’t as good at spacial relations then somehow I’m sexist.

The fact that on average women are shorter does NOT mean anything about a particular woman. The woman in front of you may tower over most men. She may be one of the tallest people ever. But men have more testosterone in their system and it makes them physically develop differently and ON AVERAGE they are taller.

So testosterone doesn’t only affect height, it affects brains as well. Same with estrogen. Ask anyone who takes those drugs for medical reasons or because they are transitioning. I’m a woman who is way better at spacial relations thinking than most women. Other than that I’m petite, soft spoken and love babies. Not masculine at all. Not on drugs. But - kind of like a very tall woman - I’m a bit of an outlier in how my brain works compared to other women.

I get it that some folks have used science to do “superior race” “superior sex” oppression and that is horrifying. The current administration in the US = facist nightmare 100%, and incompetent to boot.

But it still is objectively true that there are generalizations / averages that can be made based on race and sex. Why is someone sexist for saying things that are objectively true?

So many democrats don’t understand how someone could possibly be stupid/blind enough to vote for Trump.

If those same people were switched at birth with the Republicans they look down on them they would probably be voting Republican.

It is always worth trying to understand where other people are coming from. If you didn’t have the education that you got, if you were raised in the environment they were raised in and heard the messages they heard and suffered through whatever types of challenges they suffered (instead of the ones you did) then you would have a different world view. You would. That is a fact.

I am surrounded by democrats and they all think republican voters are low class idiots. If I were a republican then why would I want to vote for a party of people who obviously think I’m a low class idiot?