Sometimes there are benefits to being an androgynous transfemme with an unfortunate case of “Dr. Girlfriend Voice”
As a child watching venture bros I never questioned Dr girlfriends voice. Actually watching through as an adult, def made me lulz
women aren’t special ; i talk over everybody
The woman in my dept talks over me and the other dude all the time, she’s very interrupt-y. She’s great though we still love her, funny af and knowledgeable. It certainly isn’t gender specific.
I’m so guilty of talking over other people and I hate it. Please fix me.
Especially in online meetings with no camera. Without seeing body language, I often think people are done talking so I start talking, but they were just resting between sentences. Oof.
Online is the worst–I think the slight delay is a big factor as well. We both start before either realizes the other was speaking and it’s very uncomfortable.
But also I’m just a bad interrupter. I often have an idea I’m so excited about I just blurt it out without even thinking about the fact that someone else is in the middle of speaking. I don’t know why I’m like this, I’ve tried to stop and I have made some progress but it still happens way too much. Best progress I’ve made so far is rudely start talking, realize 1 second later I should not have, apologize, and tell the other person to keep going.
One thing that kinda helped for me is realising that nobody will care about my point, if they’re still thinking about the point they want to make themselves. Realising that helps me wait.
Only downside is that I then sometimes miss other points, and sometimes also forget my own point still.
If they had something more important to say they would say it louder
It’s not the crime people claim it to be IF you aren’t trying to deliberately down others out.
I love how the men who can’t help but pipe up about how “ackchyually” this isn’t the case because reasons all magically happen to anecdotally be the statistical anomalies of what decades of research (not to mention their reflexive reaction) has repeatedly proven is a real problem that exists across all walks of life.
Like pretty much all posts about anything even remotely feminism related, it is a self selection mechanism that they just can’t help but react to.
and only woman because the same dude does not talk over everyone.
/s ?
(just assuming as I had a similar sarcastic response to this comic)
