Do U think universities should require weight-based microaggression diversity training for students?

[MatureDJ]

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10139

... one “fat and poor” woman that Hunt interviewed, Anita, lamented the microaggressions she felt regarding business clothing.

“I’ve experienced microaggressions around business wear/office clothes,” said Anita, adding that many of her coworkers are “resistant to discussions of size privilege and business casual requirements” in the workplace.

Meanwhile, college administrator Desiree lamented “verbal weightshaming.”

“Because I am a chubby black woman who happens to be very curvy, folks think that it is acceptable to sing songs about big butts or make comments about having some ‘junk in the trunk,’” she lamented.

Many interviewees also expressed concern that their fatness was hurting their career. Tonya, for example, was told during an interview that “the committee would just want to make sure that you are healthy enough to keep up with a demanding schedule.”

These microaggressions, Hunt contends, hurt fat women’s careers and finances, arguing that “upward mobility is halted” because other people may “be uncomfortable with them taking more responsibility.”

To fight this, Hunt recommends that colleges add more education about body shaming and weight-based microaggressions into faculty and employee diversity training.

My opinion: One wonders if a student shooing off a fat coed will have to answer to the "weight-based microaggression" diversity officer.

 

[lizardking82]

This could be titled "weak genes fighting for survival by blaming strong genes and taking their resources" LOL

 

[highSpeed]

This really pisses me off.

"Upward mobility" isn't halted because of someone else's "microagression". The problem is that a manager is always going to be hesitant to put someone with a weak, thin-skinned, victim mentality into a position of greater power and influence who is more likely going accuse and sue everyone over stupid sh*t like perceived microagreesions every time sh1t doesn't go their way. You cant guide or discipline an employee like that. They will eventually cry oppression, sexism, bigotry, racism, etc.

It's a fvcking headache most people who are in a position to promote others would rather avoid.

you're kidding right? isn't that what has happened to the "democratic" party in the US? remember, if there is a job opening at the DNC, as per the email, white men need not apply.