Totally unreal to expect that UNC/CH suggest that a student might actually work to get the things they want, using the tools the school gives them.

Microaggressed by a hot redhead with smarts? Sounds like a First World Problem. Such people had better get used to women telling them things they don't want to hear.

That's gonna happen a LOT.

You beast. How will those poor people ever recover from such an assault?

I always thought he was a cad.

A powerful wealthy politician mentioning "golf" to the judge that will decide whether or not to indict his wife. The nerve.

"... he mentioned golf he played in Phoenix," said Lynch Tuesday afternoon while speaking at the Phoenix Police Department."

http://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoenix/loretta-lynch-bill-clinton-meet-privately-in-phoenix

Competitive aggrievance. It's like a new parlour game. Almost anyone can play.

I told my wife that I liked her new shoes and that she should wear them to the golfing awards dinner and the next Christmas party.

Hope that hits the right triggers.

For what it's worth, the school is now saying that the list is not official policy, and was merely something from a faculty discussion. But we know how these things often go: they label opponents "paranoid" for thinking that it will become policy, and then once the opponents have taken their media beat-down, suddenly it does become policy.

These "indignities" include complimenting a speaker on her footwear,

How about headgear? Can I compliment a speaker on her headgear? And what if the person is not a speaker? Can I compliment her footwear then? What if the speaker is a cis-gendered male? Can I compliment his footwear?

Political Correctness has gone beyond parody.

For example, “Having an office dress code that applies to men and women differently” is incorrect because it “assumes that your staff fits into one of two gender categories; can also be a violation of anti-discrimination policies.”

At what point does acknowledging that people may have gender identity issues devolve into enabling real mental health issues?

If you're not comfortable in the body in which you were born and you're not willing to have surgery to change your body into one in which you'll be more comfortable, do the rest of us really need to be involved?

Amy, I bet if you really try, you can hit them all in an hour. You shouldn't need a whole afternoon.

Sadly I had to take a class on this or rather a slightly more generic version where any showing of preference or inequality counts. My whole department did. Even statements like "Banker, I would like to hear your opinion on this."

And one other thing. At work they have made some bathrooms to be "All gender" bathrooms to be more inclusive. Now some individuals are complaining that doing that sends the message that they are not actually women and this is insulting them. Further more they are refusing to use these bathrooms and instead going to bathrooms that are marked for women.

In the immortal words of John McEnroe, you cannot be serious.

Heh, the other day I was car shopping and it bugged me that I couldn't place the salesman's accent, so I asked. So un-PC of me, but I had to know. Turns out he was French, and from The Republic of Congo. I never would have placed him myself. He didn't seem to mind, and my curiosity was sated. Take that, SJW's!

argh, reminds of the new L.A. 4-way stop I've been experiencing: arrive at stop sign w/car on my right. Wait for them to go. They don't go. They are busy texting. New cars arrive at other two stop signs, waiting for us to move.

Right-of-way gets completely fucked as we all try to make our way across as the idiot woman texting (and it is always a woman) remains oblivious.

I think this artistic statement falls into the category of macroaggression, just from the sheer size of it.

I have got to stop visiting HuffPo.

“Having an office dress code that applies to men and women differently” is incorrect because it “assumes that your staff fits into one of two gender categories; can also be a violation of anti-discrimination policies.”
But, one would be forbidden to ask each person their gender identity. Catch-22. Frankly most workplaces are really really really not wanting to know about your weird sex life. It is called "work" for a reason.
Asking where someone is from can be a great conversation opener if you travel much. These people are making all conversation off limits, even what was before "safe" topics.

Turns out he was French, and from The Republic of Congo. I never would have placed him myself. He didn't seem to mind, and my curiosity was sated. Take that, SJW's! ~ Kat at June 30, 2016 8:39 AM

I had a Nigerian-American cab driver in San Francisco ask me if I could guess where he was from based solely upon his accent. It sounded vaguely South African, but with a twist, so I couldn't. He than added that his countrymen were huge basketball fans and I got it on the first try. He was friendly, polite, and, on the whole, it was an enjoyable cab ride.

These "indignities" include complimenting a speaker on her footwear, using the terms "husband/boyfriend" or "wife/girlfriend" instead of "partner/spouse," asking where someone is from, referencing Christmas vacation or suggesting a round of golf.

If someone has an interesting or particularly well-done tattoo on display, I've never hesitated to ask for a better look and inquire as to the story behind it. And people have been 100% happy to comply and answer questions, from strangers in bars to salespeople to bikers. (Obviously I wouldn't do it to someone with a Holocaust tattoo, or a medical tattoo.)

I wonder if inquiring about tattoos is microaggressing?

Good job, sugartits.

I have got to stop visiting HuffPo.

AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGG! MY EYES, MY EYES. I need brain bleach, stat!

Gog that is a macroaggression!

"brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, and environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial, gender, sexual orientation and religious slights and insults to the target person or group."

how in the world does complimenting shoes fit into this? I don't find enough people on a daily basis who wear shoes I would compliment, so does my occasional compliment still rank as a microaggression? How is this an indignity? Hostility? Did you lunge for her shoes? I've heard people say that the "pendulum" has to swing all the way to the left for awhile to compensate for all the time it's been on the right & eventually it will land in the far more reasonable middle. Wake me up when it gets there.

"...using the terms "husband/boyfriend" or "wife/girlfriend" instead of "partner/spouse,"..."

Soon enough such words will be criminalized, along with man and woman.

There should be a whole website dedicated to reporting the daffy ideas that come from UNC Chapel Hill. I live near both them and Duke. Believe it or not, a lot of the people here who are not associated with those institutions are really nice.