There is a point in the movie Fatal Attraction where Glenn Close utters the line, “I’m not gonna be ignored!” (The link is the movie trailer and she says the line around 0:54.)

That’s not what she actually means. Instead, she may mean

I shall put forth my greatest efforts to increase the likelihood that you will attend to me.

Or perhaps she means

I interpret your behavior to mean that you are not attracted to me the way I am attracted to you and this causes me great frustration.

Or maybe she means

If I need to escalate my behavior so that your behaviors will become congruent with what I want your behaviors to be, then I shall do so.

Or

I perceive that you do not value me.

The unfortunate truth is that while we can influence the behavior of others, we cannot control it. The sad irony, therefore, is that while she adamantly states that she is “not gonna be ignored”, she is. True, her increasingly volatile and frightening behaviors ultimately induce a response from Michael Douglas’s character, though it is not the response that Close’s character necessarily wants.

Pithiness is sexy. Which is why I, too, shall hit my fist on the table and emphatically say, “I’m not gonna be ignored!” while I continue to be ignored.

UPDATE: I apparently wasn’t hitting the table hard enough. I am no longer being ignored! Oh, the excitement!