Posted on 09/11/2014 11:43:30 AM PDT by servo1969
I’m Andrew Klavan and this is the Revolting Truth.
Well, it’s back to school time and all across our country, college students are suffering from an insidious form of oppression called microaggressions. These are defined as commonplace verbal or, behavioral indignities... that communicate racist or sexist slights or insults...”
Microaggressions take place when, for instance, a woman sees a black male and clutches her purse more tightly making it too damn hard for him to snatch the thing away from her... or when two men hear a woman speaking and look at one another like this [makes a face] the universal sign language for “irrational woman.” So don’t let them see you do that because you know women. [makes the face]
To combat the tragedy of microagression, we here at the Revolting Truth have collected some real life MA experiences and submitted them to experts for commentary and advice. Trigger warning: these are genuine examples of microaggression and may cause you to experience some of the terrifying injustice of being a minority or female college student in today’s America.
All right, here’s one from the website, The MicroAgressions Project: [quote] “I wanted to get my nephew a My Little Pony coloring book since I like MLP... My brother, however, objected... I ended up getting my nephew a Batman one, but I don’t like Batman. It made me feel angry and sad that my brother is so entrenched in stereotypical gender roles.”
Wow. We submitted this sad story to Aran, an Iraqi Yazidi women, who sent this reply:
“Dear American College student. I am very sorry to hear of your My Little Pony incident. I perhaps can identify with some of your suffering as I was forced to watch while Islamists murdered my beloved husband and children before selling me into sexual slavery. Like you, I too felt forced into stereotypical gender roles. I hope your nephew enjoys his Batman.”
Here’s another tragic tale of micro-aggressive woe from a powerful performance piece called I Too Am Harvard: [quote] “I am a Harvard university student of mixed race, and people sometimes come right up to me and ask, ‘What are you?’”
We sent this description to our friend Lisa in the Central African Republic. Lisa gave this helpful reply:
“Dear Harvard student. How rude to be asked what race you are. It reminds me of the time I was hunted down by Muslim Seleka Rebels, dragged into the jungle and raped for hours before being set on fire. Even though I know how difficult it is there, I too sometimes dream of going to Harvard.”
Well, thanks to Lisa for that sympathetic reply. Here’s one more true life atrocity from an American female pre-med student. [quote] “My MCAT instructor keeps referring to the unnamed writers of certain passages with male pronouns. It made me feel stupid and unvalued...”
Our correspondent Fairly in Afghanistan responds... “Dear American pre-med student. How terrible to have to overcome such difficulty as male pronouns in getting to go to school. I too have suffered difficulties getting to school when men rode by on motorbikes and threw acid in my face. Of course this is nothing compared to male pronouns, but I do sort of miss my face sometimes. I used to be very pretty.”
Well, I hope this advice has been helpful to all those American college students suffering from microaggression. We here at the Revolting Truth understand that this sort of savage oppression can really harsh your buzz, especially if you already have a hangover and crabs.
I’m Andrew Klavan with the Revolting Truth.
So.. very.. true.
Americans tend to whine about the tiniest of issues. Contrast that with those who face REAL discrimination, i.e., death by beheading for not being in the majority.
Liberals just are NOT happy unless they have something to bitch about.
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They whine because they’ve never really endured anything or overcome anything except for maybe having 2 years of braces affixed to their teeth.
Wait till the guy they voted for implements sharia on their campus. I almost look forward to it. Almost.
I want to live long enough to watch them cower.
I could get behind a project like The MicroAgressions Project.
Would I be microaggressive If I told a college student that she is a slut because she has drunken hook-ups and wants free birth control?
Oh well. I guess I’ll just have to live with myself.
Well worth the read.
That’s some harsh satire.
Harsh, but accurate.
Terrific !!!
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I had to read that twice.
Wait, whose birthday is it? Your's or your nephew's? Just out of curiosity does your nephew even like My Little Pony? Or is his opinion completely irrelevant?
Microaggressions take place when, for instance, a woman sees a black male and clutches her purse more tightly making it too damn hard for him to snatch the thing away from her... or when two men hear a woman speaking and look at one another like this [makes a face] the universal sign language for “irrational woman.” So don’t let them see you do that because you know women. [makes the face]
Once all microagressors are hunted down and set to reeducation camps we will be able to focus on nanoagression and even picoacression.
His earlier thought returned to him: probably she was not actually a member of the Thought Police, but then it was precisely the amateur spy who was the greatest danger of all. He did not know how long she had been looking at him, but perhaps for as much as five minutes, and it was possible that his features had not been perfectly under control. It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself -- anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called.
I think to be properly MICRO aggressive, you would have to perform the "slut sneeze", .... ahhh slutchoo!
I must be getting old, I never heard that one before. We used terms like "what a downer man..", or "don't bogart that joint"........
These people are truly insane.
I guess the term I’m looking for is MACROagressive.
As in; “Yeah, you want to buy your nephew a My Little Pony because you are in fact a purse carrying, metrosexual, Obama voting, fag-centric Brony with gender issues.”
excellent
I concur, there is so many issues which are far more serious
Thank you for that reminder, time to read it again.
LOL, good one!
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