power, privilege, and everyday life.

Have a question/comment/similar experience to share? Email us or fill out our contribution form.

Note: The comments section provides a space for people to LEARN from one another.

Search

Pages

Twitter

Find us on...

My freshman year of college I gave a presentation in front of my Understanding Theater class. When I got my grade back I had points deducted, but no reason for this deduction was given. When I asked the professor why she told me that it was because she wasn’t able to fully understand me. I was born and raised in Oklahoma, but I speak with the accent of the rural farming community I grew up in. She later in the semester told me that “it is hard to take you seriously when you talk like that.” As if I was putting on the accent.

Notes

  1. jessica-rabbid reblogged this from microaggressions and added:
    I had the same problem in public speaking class
  2. thankgoodnessforme reblogged this from microaggressions
  3. mirkwood reblogged this from microaggressions and added:
    When I moved from the South to California, I felt like I had to hide any aspects of my Southern accent, because people...
  4. heyydnae reblogged this from againstpower
  5. againstpower reblogged this from microaggressions and added:
    When I moved back to the United States to live with my mother and her new husband, I had to enroll at a local middle...
  6. tel0s22 reblogged this from microaggressions
  7. onamissiontocivilize reblogged this from housecousland and added:
    yup. If some hiring committee judges me for my accent instead of my CV, I don’t want to work with those losers anyway.
  8. queenandthree reblogged this from strixus and added:
    My mother is from Macon, GA, my father is the son of German immigrants to Texas. I lived in Japan for a while as a child...
  9. strixus reblogged this from amyelizabeth and added:
    Ugh. Yeah, I’ve had this. I’ve had people who refuse to believe I’m an Atlanta native because of my accent. Hell, I’ve...
  10. housecousland reblogged this from iwillnotsettledown and added:
    I used to actively try to scrub out my accent (I’m from Tennessee) because of that perception, that Southern =...
  11. warpcorps reblogged this from microaggressions
  12. iwillnotsettledown reblogged this from onamissiontocivilize and added:
    I was told that I had to get rid of my Southern accent (South Georgia) because it would affect my singing and my career...
  13. unsuspectingfish reblogged this from microaggressions and added:
    I did speech & debate in high school, and I will never forget the time a judge actually mocked the way I said certain...
  14. clickthefrog reblogged this from amyelizabeth
  15. amyelizabeth reblogged this from valkyrierisen and added:
    I had a thick Minnesota/Midwestern accent and had folks here in Atlanta just tear into me over it. I hate that you had a...
  16. tanahi reblogged this from arcanebarrage and added:
    A good deal of my relatives from northern Ohio often looked down their noses at me and the rest of my family due to our...
  17. withhumanwhims reblogged this from microaggressions
  18. arcanebarrage reblogged this from valkyrierisen and added:
    My husband and I purposefully try to speak without Southern accents. I have a lot harder time doing so (especially when...
Blog comments powered by Disqus

Loading posts...