...and offer suggestions that you think might be useful to the research team.

...well, I'm guessing I just fucked the whole "research bias" out of the water, which seemed predicated on adopting the fascist "free speech promotes nonconformism on genocide" crap into the pseudoprogressive "these are a bunch of poor, lonely, isolated individuals with no inner strength, whose only umbilicus to life is a community of support..."

...not that I'm not prone to use the latter when reaching out to those morosely-depressed with no inner strength who fit this stereotype... but no, it's sorta been the other way 'round, lol... so much for researcher bias. I'm not depressed, all my friends are IRL and/or off the boards, with a few exceptions on them, and I've done far more to agitate than to be agitated. Harumph. The stereotype dies.

I like killing assumptions. Doing so is always for the good of science. n3wayz...

We do not have the means to employ the strategy that was effective for homosexual activists back then -- public demonstrations during the APA’s committee meetings.

Sure we do. Study, if you will, the use of masks in the disruption of meetings with speeches... :p

...but oh well... you're right. I'm far more interested in using our, well, usual means of power...

...speaking of which...

I have gained a good deal of insight into the internal politics of the APA...

Please, tell me more.

I'm fairly certain that they're no bigger than anything else we've stomped over... I just don't happen to have a map of their structure.

...and, as you note, the ponderings of a useless organization, which can enrich its members all it wants for all I care, might be a mild interest.

...seeing as the other option is to disestablish it.