Here is a new thing I saw someone post on facebook that I assume is a clear example of perceived microagression . Or is it?
http://www.vulture.com/2015/10/meryl-streep-suffragette-shirt-is-unfortunate.html#
What do you all think? Inappropriate? Or context matters?
I saw that and thought: talk about people trying to make something out of nothing!
Reminded me that these organizations exist to draw attention to themselves, to sell papers, to get viewers, to get clicks. Yesterday the Daily Mail ran photos from Tom Brady’s sister’s wedding. Tom, Giselle, 3 kids sat in church and were photographed coming out looking kind of tired and this was turned in “looking glum” among rumors about a split. They exist to sell papers. Same with manufactured nonsense about Streep.
Noah would agree with Streep.
What?
We’re talking about how long we can hold back a wee? If so, no, it doesn’t work like that.
What do you mean, “what”? What are you asking me? I don’t think I was being cryptic; what I said speaks for itself.
On the Streep thing: context matters.
It is also worth remembering that women of any color did not get the vote until 1920. Black men were certainly–and disgracefully–prevented from exercising their right to vote in some places in the US, but they HAD it. Their wives, mothers, sister, and daughters did not. No matter where they lived.
Context matters.
An asian-american friend told me about the time she was in a shop with her biracial caucasian-looking toddler standing nearby. The sales clerk made a loud announcement asking if anyone knew where this lost child’s parent was.
Micro-aggression or macro-stupidity?
Maybe the sales clerk expected a helicopter parent to be hovering over or holding the kid, rather than let the kid move around on his/her own nearby.
If the clerk asked the Asian-American customer if the toddler was hers, and the toddler wasn’t, it would be a microaggression for failing to be sensitive to the ethnic heritage of the woman.
How bout if a kid is standing near a parent-y looking person, don’t ask at all.
Or ask every nearby possible parent. Or recognize the fact that asking based on proximity rather than race is NOT a micro-agression, except in the minds of people who like to do false equivalencies and deliberately misunderstand in order to score a point.
(Dangit I promised my self I woudn’t let myself get involved with this.)