Remember the trauma experienced when First Wookie was asked to help a woman get a jug of laundry soap? My trauma was a million billion times worse
Posted on 04/16/2015 3:31:51 PM PDT by MNDude
It's reported that Micro aggression is the new face of racism. It is unintentional yet powerful form of racism\sexism.
Racial experts have used examples such as a white guy asking an Asian person for help on homework or picking a black guy first to be on his basketball team.
As I thought about it, I fear i have been the victim of micro aggression several times in my life as well, and I have been feeling very troubled. I'm m sure I'm not alone here.
In what ways have people committed micro aggression towards you in the past?
As a young female engineer just out of college, I was meeting with vendors for the first time to shop for new manufacturing equipment to install. I was mistaken for a secretary and asked to get coffee several times.
The true sexism was a fool who didn’t believe I was an engineer, and repeatedly asked who was really in charge.
The salesperson entered the boss’ office behind me. I sat down near the secretary, trying not to blow up in one of my first professional assignments. The visitor said he’d never seen me, boss confirmed I was a new engineer hire, had worked there two and a half years prior as an intern / part time. He said I should have been home barefoot and pregnant, not telling men like them what to do.
The guy didn’t realize I heard every word. The guy tried to do to his sales pitch to the manager, but he didn’t commit to anything. After the guy left, I entered the boss’ office and took the catalog.
When I placed the orders, I made sure not one item of the $100,000 budget came from his company. He even had the gall to call and ask when we’d order items per his price quote. I told him over the phone that I just didn’t have the skills to handle his particular product line, but other vendors were much happier to help explain things to a young girl like me, and that he wasn’t getting our business.
That is true sexism. And I made sure it had marketplace consequences.
What isn’t sexism?
A girl wearing a skimpy dress is not oppressed if she gets guy’s stares - she earns it by the clothing choices she makes.
A girl who acts like an idiot because smart kids are nerds isn’t going to get asked her opinion as often on important subjects.
The girl who plays get along and never takes a stand isn’t taken as seriously as the ones with principles.
Being asked if you are married or how many kids you have isn’t sexist - it is conversation.
Being show courtesy like not cussing in front of you and holding the door is a complement, not an insult.
Being ignored because you are quiet all the time is human nature.
Being devalued for your opinion because you equivocate it and pre-condition it is a result of the way you speak. Speaking with confidence is one part, but so is not minimizing the ideas you want to convey. Say “we should”, not “I think we might want to consider this idea”.
The hypocrisy of the left:
You can have women’s only clubs, but not men’s only.
Blacks only spaces, but not whites only.
Spaces for any sexual minority but not straights
Safe spaces for liberal beliefs, but conservatives and non-liberals aren’t allowed their own venues, events or spaces on the internet (this is half of Gamergate and Sad Puppies; liberals invade any conservative corner they find and interject politics into everything)
They can segregate and ban you from entering, but no one else is allowed to have their own groups, spaces and activities.
In short, there is no freedom of association for anyone but liberals.
I go ahead and do it but I feel victimized and taken advantage of.
It's not easy being tall.
That is the weirdest gospel presentation I ever heard of. Strawman much?
I’m tired of being judged by the color of my skin.
Said he’d never seen you when you had been there 2.5 years... what kind of crazy nut is that.
That is not redneck.
That is jerk.
Speaking of the hypocrisy of liberals, look at the stereotypes Holly Wood portrays of blacks, Asians, etc.
Leftists are always aggressive
So, what does it mean when black people ask me for directions in a black neighborhood? Am I the micro aggressor or aggressee?
I was micro-aggressed by a fist to the side of the head in the 1970’s when a couple of friends and I went to a McDonalds where a bunch of Trayvon’s brothers were angry because their school lost a basketball game.
Knockout game before it was fashionable.
We got out of there because unbeknownst to them we were on the way home from the skeet range and my buddy, lagging behind, pulled a 12-gauge, racked a round and said loudly, “Okay, who really wants to play?”
1973, if memory serves, in the socialist paradise of Maryland
Outstanding idea.
“I feel your microagression towards me” —I’m going to use that against social justice maroons.
Watch any crime show on TV. How often is the minority person guilty? Almost never. I can’t recall the last time a black person or a muslim or a hispanic turned out to be the perp. But if you get your statistics from tv, there are an amazing number of women committing murder.
LOL.... That’s funny, even if you didn’t mean for it to be..
-PJ
Remember, she controls the food you're going to be served.
Don't think you'll like it when she spits on your entrée.
Sorry, I didn’t quite catch that. Would you care to repeat it?
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