Because THAT voice could never have come from MY body.

I was entering the elevators in Stewart Biology when one of my Psych professors entered making it just her and I. Even though I didn’t particularly enjoy her teaching style, I spoke to her out of politeness, telling her how much I enjoyed the material she was doing this semester. She refused to look my direction and only spoke one sentence as the elevators opened on the floor she wanted: “Well I wasn’t expecting THAT voice out of THAT body.”

I stood there pretty much stunned into silence as she left the elevator. My voice seemed quite normal to me. But as a POC I had to wonder what she meant. I happen to think my voice and my body suit me just fine, but I guess she was expecting something different. She could have said a number of things like maybe thank you, or spoken to me briefly about what I had mentioned but instead she had to bring my body into it. What did she think would happen when I spoke? Ugh.