Black Women Are Sharing Microaggressions So Absurd They’ll Make You Both Laugh And Cry

Unfortunately, Black women face microaggressions on a daily basis. While all microaggressions are harmful, some are also laughably ridiculous. In a Reddit subreddit, user u/zzzt_zzzt asked, “What’s the dumbest/funniest microaggression you’ve experienced?” and the answers will give you a little insight into the indignities that Black women regularly face.

By the way: The term “racial microaggression” was first proposed by psychiatrist Dr. Chester Pierce in the ‘70s, and was later defined by Columbia professor Derald Wing Sue as, “brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward people of color.” Recently, scholar and anti-racist activist Ibram X. Kendi, author of How To Be an Anti-Racist, has rejected the use of the term, saying, “A persistent daily low hum of racist abuse is not minor. I use the term ‘abuse’ because aggression is not as exacting a term.”