Shortly after the election, an unknown individual scrawled graffiti on an academic building on Scripps Campus. The graffiti spelled out ‘M.A.G.A.’ (short for ‘Make America Great Again’), and was accompanied by a broken window. It’s disconcerting to think that Trump supporters on campus/in the community felt comfortable acting out in such a destructive manner so soon after the election results.
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My dad likes to wear Dashikis because he thinks it is a cool style and makes him feel like a "hippie" again. When I tried to explain that this is culturally appropriative to African cultures because he has no actual connection to the cultures that traditionally wore Dashikis, he just said that I was being overly politically correct and that he was supporting businesses by wearing them... and he hosts a radical-leftist radio show!
There are several white people with dreadlocks who attend Pitzer, and this is cultural appropriation and thus a walking microaggression.
I am a white woman, and I used to compliment black women's hair all the time because I genuinely think black hair is beautiful and incredible, but I would never touch it/ask to touch it. When I learned about microaggressions, I stopped doing this as frequently. Is it microaggressive to be a white woman complimenting a black woman's braids or natural hair? Please comment!
once I was with my friends and a girl was talking about how she couldn't marry a white guy because she doesn't think her parents would approve and because a white man couldn't understand or empathize with her culture and experience. A white male in the group said that's just like as bad as him saying he wouldn't marry an Indian girl, obviously ignoring the concept of racism; you can't be racist to a group that isn't marginalized!
At a party, two friends in a heterosexual relationship were dancing with each other to an upbeat song, and they noticed that the guy always grinds behind the girl. One of them asked my girlfriend and I (both of us are femme-presenting cis women) who dances in the back and who dances in the front when we go to parties. We were both very uncomfortable, because that's something we hadn't even thought about. It was clear what our friend was really asking was the heteronormative and outdated question of who the man in our relationship is...
When working in a group with two men and one other woman I make a point which the two men then say is dumb. A few moments later one of them makes basically the same point and the other one agrees with him. The other female points this out saying 'hey she just said that but you interupted her and said it was stupid' which they both then deny. The rest of the meeting is spent with them continually not letting either of the females finish their points. It's like they don't believe that women might have something intelligent to say.
A couple semesters ago I went to a film screening for a language class. The visiting language students who run the screenings (who aren't here anymore) chose a movie that basically depicted two men sexually assaulting young women for the entire two hours. The worst part was that the movie was meant to be a comedy and the visiting language students were laughing all the way through.
One of my professors tells little joke stories sometimes during class. Last week, he told a whole story that jut revolved around him making fun of a family because they were overweight. There was no other point to the story. People's bodies aren't puchlines.
I was out with my suitemate and a male student asked her what her major was, it's computer science and politics, to which he replied 'you're way too pretty to be doing that subject'. Was that meant to be complimentary??
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