One type of microagression that I detected this week or remember from another time is sexism. The way this happened is that one day there was a friend of the family who came over and saw my sisters and I helping my grandpa build a brick mailbox in the hot sun and just because we were girls he assumed that we were not the type who did hard labor. He thought we were girly girls who didn't want to get their hands dirty and that the boys in the family should have been the ones out helping my grandpa do all the work.
My observations experiences this week affect my perception on stereotype because now I learned to sit back and watch people before I open my mouth and pass any judgment.
I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring. ~Liz Armbruster, on robertbrault.com
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