Practicing Awareness of Microaggressions

One microaggression that I noticed this week was the fact that one of my coworkers (lead teacher) called another one of my coworkers (teacher assistant) dingy after a comment she stated about herself. She stated that she did not want anything else hit her upside the head. She was accidently hit upside the head with a chair that the lead teacher was moving at the time. The lead teacher said “we don’t want anything to hit your head again, we don’t want you any dingier than what you already are.” Now she laughed and said that she was playing but I knew she meant it, otherwise she would not have said it. I found it rude that she actually said that. I think that she would be stereo typing her as a blond even though she is not technically one. I found it rude that she actually said it right in front of her but made it seem like a joke. The assistant just smiled but I could tell that it hurt her feelings. Those inside jokes can hurt someone even if that person who said it “thinks” that no one caught it.