Performative Protest Gender Scripts

Protests now routinely deploy rehearsed, gender‑coded performance scripts (theatrical, empathic interventions typically associated with women vs. direct, confrontational actions associated with men) that are engineered for camera‑friendly narratives. These scripts are chosen and staged to maximize sympathetic viral attention and to shape downstream enforcement and legal responses. — If true, this exposes a tactical layer that changes how police, prosecutors, journalists, and lawmakers should evaluate protest footage and makes it necessary to separate staged narrative performance from operational facts in policymaking.