Microaggression

Noun..

SAY: “I assume that everything I say will be a microaggression of some sort, so I apologise in advance.”

Aggression used to be such an easy thing to spot. You’d go to the pub, get drunk, throw a beer-garden chair through a window and there it was. However, things change and now we all find ourselves struggling with a million different microaggressions: acts of insensitivity that you might not even notice but cumulatively become exhausting for the recipient. Have you ever asked a black person if you can touch their hair? That’s a microaggression. Have you ever assumed that a gay friend knows another one of your gay friends, just because they’re both gay? That’s also a microaggression.