University of North Carolina says complimenting a woman on her shoes is now a ‘microaggression’

‘One of the most prestigious schools in the Southeast has become a national laughingstock, after a set of guidelines on how to avoid so-called “microaggressions” on campus gained national attention. According to officials at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), bidding someone a pleasant Christmas vacation or complimenting a woman on her shoes are both forms of oppression against minorities that only the harshest of anti-discrimination policies can adequately address.
Calling people “male” and “female” is also offensive, claim the two women – oops, are we even allowed to call them that? – who penned the guidelines, because transgendered folks who can’t even match their own chromosomes to the correct verbiage might become triggered. You’d also better not use the terms “husband” or “wife,” or even “boyfriend” or “girlfriend,” because, again, you might offend the mentally ill among us who would rather be called by the generic term for an object: “it.”‘
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