Powerful Male Senators

SPEAK MORE! The Female Supreme Court Justices get interrupted 1/3 more often than men. This number actually increases as the numbers of womyn increase. Our democratic system depends on all voices being equal. This is just one case where there is a vast discrepency between those who have always held power and those who are new to the game. It can be enlightening to look at the details, look hard at what is going on. In the best case, patriarchy is taking it's last gasp. We are experiencing the death rattle of cultural systems of oppression that do not work. Just like how the racists put all their eggs in the deceitful traitor basket. Finding the micropauses, to jump in, and speaking just a little louder and a little longer than your opposition, don't let the misogynists dominate the conversation! Talking over, can be taken to an offensive level and still sound "more civil", hey, Bob, I wasn't done making my point... thus cock blocking him while making him look like the "bad guy." Those who fill the space with their ideas are most often obstacles to consensus, not helpful in any way. Changing our culture can be done in as little as twenty years, but it requires concerted efforts on the part of all of us. We are frequently distracted by bluster, misdirection, self-serving blather and opinions attempting to hold dominion over fact ad nauseum. Holding the public discussion to higher standards would require us to more highly value facts, call people out on their lies and to be heard, we would have to shout a little bit louder fo ra little bit longer than anyone who sought to shout us down. That, in fact, is why bullies win out so often. It is the same reason that culturally insensitivity seems to be peddled as the "norm", when it is obviously the opposite of that. Talking over someone does not mean that you are right or that your ideas are inherently valuable. Often, quite the opposite is true.