Victims Frantically Search For Offense

Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2015-01-14 07:01

Article here. Excerpt:

'Microaggression. The word may soon be knocking on your door to demand supplication or another form of payment. Microaggression is the new politically correct campaign being launched by "disadvantaged" elites who are running out of even vaguely real transgressions to complain about.

What You Can Expect to Be Accused Of

Microaggression is unintended discrimination that demeans the "disadvantaged" even if the perpetrator does not intend to do so and is well-meaning. Coined in 1970 by Harvard psychiatrist Chester M. Pierce, it described unconscious racial insults delivered by whites to minorities. An example is a white teacher who asks a black student if he needs help with a math problem.

The concept includes micro-insults or insensitive communication such as asking an Asian coworker where she comes from; the question allegedly suggests she is a foreigner and not a true American. It also includes micro-invalidations that negate the feelings or reality of a black, such as speaking well of Southern cooking; the comment allegedly suggests an approval of past slavery. These behaviors lead to micro-inequities; the behaviors are conveyed through unconscious messages that allegedly devalue the "disadvantaged" in the subtle communication of facial expressions, gestures, tone, word choice, nuance and syntax.

In 1973, MIT economist Mary Rowe expanded Pierce's term to focus on discrimination against women. A classic example of microaggression against women is using the pronoun "he" to indicate people in general when it is also a gender-specific term. Merely substituting the pronoun "she," however, is microaggression as well because it sweeps the insult of the original situation under the rug.

The "disadvantaged" now include racial minorities, women, sexual minorities, the poor, the disabled ... that is, any group considered to be marginalized. It includes almost everyone but white males or any white female who disagrees with political correctness.'

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If you take a step back from the campus rape hysteria (where sexual "coercion" and using "flattering words" to get sex, is also construed as sexual assault), mansplaining, manspreading, manslamming...

It sometimes appears as if feminists are trying to legally mandate chivalry:

Cannot convince a woman to have sex...
Cannot explain too many things to a woman.
Cannot touch a woman with your legs.
Must step out of the way of women on the streest.

First feminism destroyed chivalry. Now they are trying to legally mandate it.

I suspect, in time, they will define "mandate" as sexist, too.

Sometimes I wonder why we fight feminism. They seem to be doing a good job of looking like lunatics, all by themselves.

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Submitted by ThomasI on Wed, 2015-01-14 11:23

"A classic example of microaggression against women is using the pronoun "he" to indicate people in general when it is also a gender-specific term. Merely substituting the pronoun "she," however, is microaggression as well because it sweeps the insult of the original situation under the rug."

Actually using the pronoun "he" when you do not know the gender of someone is simply following the rules of grammar. It also is fewer letters, and hence less writing and less ink, so it makes perfect sense to me to use he instead of she in this case.

That being said, I find it beyond hilarious that using "she" instead is also a microaggression. So, what's a person to do?

You can tell that a group is really out to do nothing more than shame your behaviour in general when they say that either way you're wrong, and then don't even try to offer the correct thing to do.

I agree with you Thomas. Fembots are doing a fine job of making themselves look ridiculous. That's why many women are waking up, including my sisters and my wife.

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Submitted by xtrnl on Thu, 2015-01-15 08:53