Microaggression Types

According to Psychologist Derald Wing Sue, PhD, there are three main microaggression types (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derald_Wing_Sue)

 Microassaults: Racist jokes that may not have been intended to be offensive but were told because the person thought they were so funny—followed by the comment, “I was just joking.” Following an individual through a store for fear they might steal something.

Microinsults: Insensitive comments that subtly or not so subtly disrespect a person’s racial heritage or identity or gender and that are intentionally or unintentionally demeaning or discriminatory. For example, saying to a black person who has just been appointed to a prestigious position, “Your people must be very proud of you.”

Microinvalidations: A person who is not black or a person of color tells someone who is, “Racism really doesn’t exist anymore in today’s society—at least not where I live (or work).” That blatantly ignores systemic racism and belittles the person’s level of intelligence.

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Microaggressions Nomenclature

According to MedicalNewsToday.com, the term was coined around 1970 by psychiatrist Chester M. Pierce, MD. He used it to describe subtle insults and put-downs regularly experienced by black people in his environment. The term has been expanded to include this type of behavior directed toward any marginalized group. What is a marginalize group? Individuals or populations living at the margins of mainstream society who are discriminated against and excluded by structures of power and the people within them. A person may experience microaggressions due to race, gender, culture, religion, sexual orientation, appearance, food preferences, clothing or hair styles, and type of illness, et cetera. Microaggressions may be committed unknowingly as the perpetrators may be complexly oblivious and unaware that their behavior is hurtful.

Microaggressions

Yesterday for the first time I heard the term “microaggression.” Do you have any idea what that means and where it come?

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines aggression as a forceful action or procedure (such as an unprovoked attack) especially when intended to dominate or master. That might trigger thoughts of Hitler’s actions against the Jews, gays, and the mentally ill, or of Putin’s actions against the Ukraine. A microaggression is a verbal comment or nonverbal action that subtly and often unconsciously or even unintentionally expresses a prejudiced attitude that negatively impacts an individual who might identify as being from a marginalized or nonmainstream group. Microaggressions can occur based on almost anything: race, culture, sex, gender, sexual orientation, skin color, food, religion, politics, personal biases, weight, talent, beauty, education, income, music, beliefs, bigotry, bullying, ad infinitum. More tomorrow.

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English - 1

A physician friend just sent me a series of humorous takes on the English language. Here is the first five of twenty.

1. If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?

2. If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?

3. Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

4. If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?

5. If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

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Pregnancy and Offspring

Researchers found that infants of mothers who smoked marijuana at least once a week or more during gestation showed increased hyperactivity, impulsivity, memory dysfunction, lowered IQ scores, and delinquent behavior in childhood. During adolescence and young adulthood symptoms included memory problems, lack of concentration, higher rates of drug use, hyperactivity, as well depression, psychotic, and schizophrenic-like symptoms. Several other studies involving thousands of children will have data to report, as well. Earlier longitudinal studies have shown that use of marijuana as well as use of tobacco are more than twice as likely in adulthood compared with those whose mother did not use marijuana during gestation. 

Pregnancy and Pot

In my brain’s opinion it is less what you like and much more appropriately about the impact your actions will have on your developing fetus. An article in The Scientist reported on three large longitudinal studies following the offspring of women who smoked marijuana at least once a week or more during gestation. The active ingredients in marijuana that is smoked or eaten during gestation, enter the blood stream and have been found to pass easily to the fetus through the placenta. The researchers followed the offspring from birth through young adulthood. The results showed remarkably consistent outcomes in not only infants but also in young adults. More tomorrow.

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Juneteenth Holiday

Canadian education taught about US President Abraham Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1^st, 1863. We did not learn that the practice of slavery did not cease everywhere on that date. Years later having relocated to the US, I heard about Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., PhD, and his research. It was a surprise to discover that apparently some parts of this developing country either did not get the word about Lincoln’s Proclamation—or disregarded it for some reason or other. It was June nineteen, 1865, when Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger informed portions of Texas of what had occurred two and 1a half years previously [General Orders, Number 3; Headquarters District of Texas, Galveston]. Now we likely have the most popular annual celebration of emancipation from slavery in the United States: Juneteenth (short for June nineteenth). Currently a holiday in many states, it has not yet to become a federal holiday. Let’s get on with it!