I was on the hunt this week...the hunt for micro aggressions. At first, I thought, wow this is going to be hard, but it only took one evening of television watching for me to see an instance.
It happened on the season premier of Survivor. The tribe is sitting around the fire getting ready to vote someone off, and one of the people makes a comment about how one of the guys (a gay man) is trusted more because he is "just one of the girls". The host of Survivor interjected and asked if that was because he was gay..
Now, I can only assume that the person didn't mean malice or harm by her uninformed comment, or maybe the bright lights of the Survivor jungle were making her nervous. Regardless, she made a statement that could cause harm (albeit unintended harm) to the other person. A typical definition of micro aggression.
In this day and age I think that as a society we take our whit, humor and sarcastic nature too far. What can be seen as a "joke" can be truly offensive to someone else, and cause them harm. As a whole, I think we all should take a moment and think before we speak and look at the unintended consequences of our words.
It is important to think before you treat or speak the wrong way to anyone. I enjoyed you posting
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