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The number of people saying that this voice sounds absolutely female is just an extension of the tendency to imagine anything even slightly deviating from the m
by nonsince 8y ago
The number of people saying that this voice sounds absolutely female is just an extension of the tendency to imagine anything even slightly deviating from the most stereotypically masculine as feminine by default. The one comment that I saw comparing this to a masculine voice was comparing it to a "gay flight attendant" that they had on a flight recently - and there, again, is the tendency to assume someone's gay just because they deviate slightly from the stereotypically masculine. The voice sounds genderless to me.
- thraway-burnout 8y agoOr maybe because it kinda does sound like a gay flight attendant. Sometimes a pipe is just a pipe.
- purple-dragon 8y agoIt’s disappointing to see you pull out such an easy, cheap, and tired stereotype.
- thraway-burnout 8y agoSo there are no gay flight attendants? There isn't an overrepresentation of gay people within flight service? I didn't say all flight attendants are gay – this is obviously not the case. But some are, and I've met quite a few of them. And if I try to average out their voice and mannerisms in my mind, it leads me to a sonic place that's close to this voice.
- purple-dragon 8y agoWe’re not talking about the same thing. There are likely gay people in nearly every occupation. That you think you can tell by their voice is ignorant and prejudicial.
- i_am_nomad 8y agoOne probably can’t tell that with 100% precision, but the brain is a fantastic statistical prediction device that is specifically wired to make deep inferences from vocal patterns. I would imagine the correlation between “gay” vocal characteristics and actual homosexuality is close to 1.