On top of all of the things Dr. Berry mentions in this op-ed, there's the additional indignity of being second-guessed when you bring up all of the other indign

On top of all of the things Dr. Berry mentions in this op-ed, there's the additional indignity of being second-guessed when you bring up all of the other indignities. "Oh, she's just being overly sensitive." Or, "Oh, she's attributing to discrimination things that are mere happenstance." So not only do women and racial minorities often need to "run faster and jump higher" to demonstrate that their credentials are legitimate, but they even need exert additional effort to demonstrate that their complaints are legitimate. (Speaking of exerting additional effort ... I'm reminded of an essay[1] by Tressie McMillan Cottom that argues that the additional effort that blacks have to expend _simply to convince other people that they're not a threat_ takes a real toll. Cottom describes it as a sort of "constant background processing that stereotyped people must perform.") [1] http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2013/09/jonathan_ferrell_shooting_death_the_perils_of_stereotype_threat.html http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2013/0...