It's hard to even know you've got a blindspot, let alone work out what's in that blindspot.
I was in a class on Cisco networking at a community college. The students were almost all men, more disproportionate than my other computer and networking classes, which were already bad. It was a hybrid class, with one instructor, a man, in the room, and another, a woman, who was remote.
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For the first few classes, there were only two students who were women, two young Latinas who sat together. I noticed they started frowning when the instructor who was a man was speaking, but I wasn't sure why. He wasn't an interesting instructor and I remember being disappointed in his incuriosity when I asked him a question, but otherwise I didn't see a problem with him at first.
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After a few classes, the two young women stopped attending, and the remote instructor was sick and didn't call in, if I remember rightly. Anyway, it was only men in the class at that point, and the instructor, who was a man, made some grossly sexist and racist joke about the other instructor's name. A few people laughed.
I dropped the class. I regret not formally complaining.
I've suspected the two young women picked up on something I didn't, and I've always wondered what.
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Probably some microaggression.
@foolishowl
Sounds like he may have been leering at them.
Short glances that wouldn't look like anything to anyone else.
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