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If someone's gender security is that shaky, they have larger problems than what anyone else is saying to them and should seek counseling.
In any case, this whole issue of not liking something that is said to you by someone else was solved long ago by etiquette experts.
The appropriate response is to turn a shocked expression on to the person and say, "I cant imagine why you would say something like that." or "I cant imagine why you would think its ok to ask me that"
No need to reinvent the wheel.
I later stated that I don't care about that specific issue, but these messages add up in some situations. A lot of times, people don't even realize that they're saying them. All the microaggression training does is teaches people to be aware of this preemptively so they don't make these statements.
I later stated that I don't care about that specific issue, but these messages add up in some situations. A lot of times, people don't even realize that they're saying them. All the microaggression training does is teaches people to be aware of this preemptively so they don't make these statements.
Standards of politeness will evolve, but I doubt microaggression training will ever be taken seriously by the general public. It's just too ridiculous a term, and it's telling that the people pushing for it can't seem to grasp that fact.
What poor reporting. I was all ready to be outraged about what is presented as $250 *for this specific training.* It's not. It's for the entire registration fee for orientation per link in second article:
"Student Registration for Orientation ($250):
Registration for Frosh Orientation is*now closed. The deadline was May 1, 2017."
So orientation includes a piece on how not to offend other populations that you may not have experienced interacting with. I don't see the problem.
Standards of politeness will evolve, but I doubt microaggression training will ever be taken seriously by the general public. It's just too ridiculous a term, and it's telling that the people pushing for it can't seem to grasp that fact.
Exactly.
First of all, if you haven't learned to be socially appropriate by the time you graduate high school, there is little hope you are going to be a Rhodes Scholar at it going forward. No amount of training is going to fix that deficiency and you will only learn by getting slapped down time after time by any number of people in any number of places........whether thats college, the workplace, or anywhere else you go.
Second, if you are socially appropriate for the most part, there is no conceivable way that you can anticipate what might offend every person you come in contact with. I mean really who would think a comment about neat penmanship even if tied to sex could offend someone, lol. Too silly.
I later stated that I don't care about that specific issue, but these messages add up in some situations. A lot of times, people don't even realize that they're saying them. All the microaggression training does is teaches people to be aware of this preemptively so they don't make these statements.
So what are you saying? Is this penmanship a real thing, but you aren't bothered so its NOT a microagression?
Or, its a hypothetical and you just made up a bad example?
Glad they didn't have this crapola when I went to college.
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