while here at UNT I've heard you're so
pretty for a black girl, I feel like it
discounts me as a person and then I feel
like it discounts my race, I feel like you
can be pretty just because you're women
or you know all black women are
beautiful all people of color are beautiful
just the same as people that are not
people of color, so I for them to make
that specific statement that's what I'm
like what in you made you say
that to me as if it were a compliment.
Another type of microinsult is when
students in the classroom are dismissed
treated almost as if they're invisible
for instance in some of our sciences or
engineering classes there are  few
women and professors often don't call on
those women
I had one instance in a statistics-based
class where we were discussing something
bell curve related and he presented a
question and I don't remember exactly
what the answer was but I answered it
and and he kind of doubted me and he very
condescendingly was just like oh okay
well I mean like this is the best answer
but I guess your answer could be right
you know what we'll ask it was a grad
student he was like you know what we'll
ask dr. so-and-so and see what and see
what he thinks the best answer is and
there was no apology or anything he was
just like oh yeah I dr. dr. so-and-so
said that yeah that was that was
actually a really acceptable answer I
was just like okay what else is is he
going to doubt me on and when else am I
going to be called out in front of 70
other 70 other people you know and have
a weird exchange that makes the whole
room quiet like
One of my science
classes my teacher had asked what I
wanted to do and I told the teacher that
I wanted to be a psychiatrist and
immediately they're like that's too hard
for you maybe you should try a different
field or have you ever thought about
being a nurse being a nurse practitioner
nurse practitioners in psychiatry make
pretty well they make a lot of money -
have you thought about that like why go
to med school generally sometimes
somebody might feel like they can't make
it you know and then when you continue
to tell them that, then
it does hurt you know
I have a lot of
professors tell me to my face that they
were surprised that I was as good as
a student as I was and that I pay attention
in class and actually participated, when I
asked why they said well you know you just
come off as trouble-maker
you have all these piercings and short hair as a girl
with tattoos we just naturally assumed you weren't
really going to be any good
