It comes around and around. Vocal fashions of teenage girls cause consternation. Remember the handwringing over uptalk (HRT)? In fact, I think there's a lot of

It comes around and around. Vocal fashions of teenage girls cause consternation. Remember the handwringing over uptalk (HRT)? In fact, I think there's a lot of the anti-HRT sentiment at work in vocal-fry. Girl's being told that high rising tonation is bad, so no wonder they ground out at the bottom of their range. Women can't win. Not too high, don't push low, don't use like. And so on. Men also fry, btw, you'd just be hard pressed to find a handwringing article decrying that.