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[featherynscale]

Presumably, the best thing to do in the world is not worry about things. Next best is to not worry about them when worrying about them is detrimental to actually doing something about them, i.e. solving the problem, reacting calmly to stressful situations, etc. Statistically, everybody's going to be in a car wreck at least once in their lives -- is it possible that having mentally run through the procedure of having a car wreck previously will allow you to handle an actual car wreck with a greater degree of calm and control? Previous study shows that thoroughly visualizing shooting a basket successfully improves your probability of making a shot almost as much as actually practicing the shot. This thing about rehearsal, it's interesting to me.

In other news, it's a national Day of Silence in schools for awareness of LGBT issues -- somehow this never happened when I was in school. Our big action of protest was SADD week before prom, when some of the students came in painted in whiteface to represent the statistical probability of being killed by a drunk driver. The biggest gender/sexuality/etc. discrimination thing I can recall in high school was two girls in my senior class trying to buy prom tickets as a couple, which they weren't allowed to do. I don't think they were actually a couple, just trying to raise awareness. I remember wondering why people who weren't gay would even bother trying to mess with the system. Wow, the ol' worldview has changed.

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Re: Logorrhea?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

My understanding of the phenomenon is that it's a sense of solidarity with the "invisible" people, and also an invitation to contemplate life without the person in question, in a "victims of violence" sort of way.

The logorrhea can be traced directly to the fact that I remembered to take my pills this morning, and got some vitamins on top of that -- I'm feeling pretty high-functioning.

Re: Logorrhea?

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

I respect the cleverness of the protest in silence, but I have some fundamental objections to it which I don't think I can put into words properly. There's too much silence, and too much enforcement of silence and invisibility for GLBT folks (in my not-quite-GLBT opinion), for the protest method to sit well with me. SADD and MADD are trying to make a point about what the world would be like if those kids weren't there anymore. Here, I don't think the action of silence is the strongest expression of their intention...which isn't really clear anyway.

Lots of positive energy and enthusiasm, so points for that. Me, I'll probably speak very loudly at every opportunity about how cool it is that folks are taking a vow of silence for the day about the issue, how much I support them, and wonder *out loud* about how many teenagers are silent today and whether their parents will pay any freakin' attention at all. But that's just me. :)

Re: Logorrhea?

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

I think my objections are largely similar to what Saff mentioned; I was apparently blessed to grow up in an area/areas where there wasn't a big GLBT-persecution problem, as far as I could tell. Never having lived in a city smaller than 50k (and that one was one of the top 10 places for lesbians to live, apparently) probably had something to do with that.

Despite feeling pretty high-functioning myself today (got my oil change this morning in 10 minutes, had time to clean out my car before getting to the office 5 minutes early, etc), everyone else seems to be posting my thoughts before me, here.

Re: Logorrhea?

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

Or maybe I'm just your puppet, darling.

Re: puppets

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

I'll come stick my hand inside you and we'll both find out...