Invisibility Micro-Aggressions

New micro-aggressions being discovered everyday:

“There is a growing body of literature that suggests invisibility is a common form of exclusion—or microaggression,” Mena and Vaccaro suggest. “However, no studies have focused deeply on the ways women faculty and staff experience invisibility microaggressions on college campuses”

To remedy a lack of research on the topic, Vaccaro and Mena interviewed 13 women of color working at “predominantly white institutions,” the majority of whom were heterosexual and middle-aged. From their research, they discovered that there are five types of “invisibility microaggressions,” three of which are “environmental,” while two are “interpersonal.”

According to their study, which was published in the NASPA Journal About Women In Higher Education, the three environmental microaggressions that women of color face relate to their “invisibility” on campus, in disciplinary/professional settings, and in their local communities…

Interpersonal invisibility microaggressions, on the other hand, involve what they call “professional and leadership invisibility,” both of which hinder women of color in their “everyday work roles…”

“I feel invisible…not always…but as sort of a day-to-day thing,” said Xiomara, one the 18 participants in the study…

Linda, another woman of color, told researchers… that she feels like “people don’t even know we exist most of the time.”

Unlike more traditional forms of microaggressions, such as microassaults and macroaggressions, no second-party is needed for an “invisibility microaggression” to occur. Instead, merely a lack of other racial minorities in a specific environment (such as a faculty meeting or in a cafeteria) can be a microaggression under this theory, according to Mena and Vaccaro…

Since microaggressions “perpetuate an oppressive cycle” for faculty of color, the professors conclude by calling upon colleges to make faculty of color feel less “invisible,” mainly by singling them out for positive attention.

First, they ask college administrators to publicize and “celebrate the accomplishments of women of color on campus” through “alumni magazines, campus newsletters, and the university website.”

Additionally, they suggest deliberately choosing women of color for high-profile awards, saying that “Both campuses and disciplinary/professional associations should be purposeful in nominating and selecting diverse winners for awards, thereby making sure women of color are celebrated.”

My narcissist once bitched at someone who lauded a family member at a gathering, because in his words, “I was left sitting over there in the corner, like some sort of shithead!”

It was totally non-sensical. What was praised didn’t involve him in the least. Nobody was even aware of him in the moment. But to a narcissist, the crowd focusing on someone else, and looking on them with respect, triggers all of the narcissist’s feelings of inferiority and insecurity. If your natural state is feeling like everyone else is superior, and that freaks you out, then having that reinforced by everyone focusing on someone else’s superiority is the perfect way to trigger that insecurity.

There was a serial killer named Cary Stayner. His younger brother was kidnapped by a child molester, and escaped when Stayner was 19 and the brother was 13 or so. I remember in the TV show on Stayner, they had the video of the younger brother’s press conference right after his escape.

In the video, the family stood behind the younger brother, who stood at the microphone answering questions from a media who was clearly impressed with his daring escape from his captor. In the back, Staynor kept pushing his face into the frame right behind his brother, with a big smile, kind of like Chuck Schumer does at other politician’s press conferences. He kept doing it for about ten or fifteen minutes, trying to get attention, until he finally gave up. Immediately his expression changed to anger and frustration, and he stormed off the dais to the side, clearly angry that nobody was paying attention to him. It wasn’t even noticed at the time, but 20 years later after he was caught for all his killings, they went back and there it was, all those years before.

What we are seeing in the SJW movement is an explosion in Narcissistic Personality Disorder, manifesting as a nascent political movement. It is frightening to think what would happen if the growth of this psychology were allowed to continue. Imagine an official political party designed to confer governmental power exclusively on those so afflicted with Narcissistic Personality Disorder that they could qualify as mentally ill.

Talk about a dystopian nightmare.

Tell your friends about r/K Selection Theory, because it drives narcissists nuts