Our Obsession With Microaggressions Covers Up Much Bigger Threats To Women
Why is it that now more than ever our communities and workplaces, in particular, seem overly preoccupied with the construct of language and how it communicates meaning? Self-proclaimed feminists especially have an obsession with "microaggressions," which incidentally, manage to cover up and distract from the much bigger threats facing women in our society.
Microaggressions, if you’re unaware, are “subtle, often unintentional, forms of prejudice.” (And we’re all racist because we’re all guilty of microaggressions, whether you like it or not, or so goes the logic.) Feminists are eager to describe how these microaggressions are affecting women of color and women in general in the workplace, but overall are pretty comfortable with ignoring real instances of harassment and transgressive crime, and what’s more, intent on characterizing every “offensive” or awkward, uncomfortable incident as an assault on them.