Microaggressions explained with movie clips

[Magical Realist]

I KNOW I'm guilty of this. It's sad that the vast majority of us don't even know we're doing it. It's time to get WOKE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjzWENcW6NQ

[Secular Sanity]

I KNOW I'm guilty of this. It's sad that the vast majority of us don't even know they're doing it. It's time to get WOKE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjzWENcW6NQ

Want to see some macroaggression? These are just pranks, of course. Could even be a spoof but it doesn’t look like it.

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/7iqG7IhWTWU

[Syne]

No, it's time to grow thicker skin again and stand up for yourself. It's not time to demand others coddle your feeble feelings. Learn to adult.

[Magical Realist]

No, it's time to grow thicker skin again and stand up for yourself. It's not time to demand others coddle your feeble feelings. Learn to adult.

No better way to stand up for yourself and for others than by speaking up when we see this sort of thing happening.

[Syne]

And if you think anyone should care that you're emotionally fragile and oversensitive, you're probably in for a rude awakening....or should I say awokening?

[Magical Realist]

And if you think anyone should care that you're emotionally fragile and oversensitive, you're probably in for a rude awakening....or should I say awokening?

Noone mistakes someone who stands up for themselves and for others for being emotionally fragile and oversensitive. In fact it's the precise opposite. It's all about respect and self-respect. It's the ones who keep quiet and laugh along with the microaggressor that are the cowards.

[Syne]

When it's about things others don't even intend to be insulting or offensive, it is being emotionally fragile and oversensitive. It's looking for ways to be offended, as an excuse for their unhappiness with their life. "laugh along with" unintended insults? That doesn't even make sense. Only intended insults usually draw laughter, and those are just aggression, not microaggression. It's called "micro" because the offense is so small that most people would never notice it, because it might even be wholly imagined.

[Magical Realist]

Microaggressions are always obvious once a response to them is made. Hence the courage of someone to stand up to them and call them out when they're made. If you're too craven to do that then fine, don't do it. But don't presume to tell others it's wrong to stand up for themselves or others when they are being insulted. Again, it's all about respect and self-respect.

[Leigha]

I dunno, I can see workplace microaggression as being a confidence and team building killer, if left unchecked. A culture of microaggressive behaviors will destroy trust, communication and ultimately, will affect performance. At the same time, I wouldn't want to be a part of a workplace culture where everyone's walking on egg shells, either.

[Syne]

The only thing obvious about the responses to microaggressions are their unreasoning nature. By all means, if you're intentionally insulted, stand up for yourself. But again, they are called "micro" expressly because it is unclear that any insult taken was intended. And whining about something no one intended is oversensitive, reactionary, and often unhinged. They are just as readily imagined as real, and with no objective way to tell the difference. That makes reactions to them no better than the mentally unstable raving at unseen antagonists.

But if the shoe fits...