Ouch.

Reading Antigone's post, over at Punkass Blog, about women and humor, her fourth footnote really struck me:

****This happens to me in class as well when it came to giving answers. I talk really loudly to this day because I thought people just couldn’t hear me. But no, they can hear me just fine; for whatever reason, I’m ignored.

I've always been told (mostly by my dad, frankly) that I talk too loud. Which I always thought was weird because it feels like pulling teeth, a lot of the time, to be heard.

Maybe the problem is just that I talk at all.