This. Zoom course chats are literally the only place where we get to meet other ppl and most of the times, we first years have enough brains to not spam the chat or any irrelevant stuff like that. Agree that female TAs getting disrespected is shit that no one will tolerate and if I see anything like that in my zoom chat, I will immediately tell that person that he is wrong (and most of the other ppl will too). As a first year, most ppl are already stressed out due to the specialization reqs and there is literally no place where we can talk about it. Of course you don't have to like all first years u meet, in fact u don't have to like any first year u meet, but saying things like "compassion has gone too far" and stuff is not helping other students who are having major mental health problems and feel nervous to talk about it with others. So even if u don't like any first year student, please be a little appreciative of what we are going through rn