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The war on female voices is just another way of telling women to shut up
If a woman is talking, she must be doing something wrong.
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Interesting article. I use both of the inflects that they discuss but since I'm not in the public eye no one has complained to my face about it.
Interesting -- I'm not sure I'm willing to follow this article down every trail it takes, but I am suddenly realizing that, even as a woman, I've hated the voice of every female DJ I've ever had to listen to. I can't think of a single one that didn't sound "bad" in some way or other. If this really is a subversive, sexist mindset, I wonder how it's propagated? At what point and under what circumstances are we socialized to think/hear this way?
My favorite female voice to listen to was Susan Stanberg on NPR.