Naomi Wolf wants young women to stop speaking with "vocal fry"

You mean loud boors, right?

That’s not analogous seeing as it addresses content and actual db-level versus a woman that has the audacity to use her default speaking voice. No man is by default a “loud boor”, and I grew up among loud and excited Cuban-Americans. At worst I was asked to be slightly more quiet. I was never assigned all these pejorative qualities due to gender.

Not always but actually fairly often.

My voice usually get described as, “oh jebus you’re still here? For the love of all that’s holy stop making dad jokes, it is worse than a sharp jackhammer on a chalk board, and we know you describe your vocal patterns as luxuious tweed, but noone is buying it!”.

So personally vocal fry has never bothered me, and I don’t think I even think about it.

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While loudness has high predictive factor for how annoying the sound is, it is not the only factor. The spectral characteristics of the sound, inter alia, also has major influence.

See e.g. here:
Neurally Based Measurement and Evaluation of Environmental Noise
By Yoshiharu Soeta, Yoichi Ando

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Of course @seyo doesn’t "see gender… doesn’t need to. It doesn’t impact them, I betcha.

Called no man ever. Or maybe, rarely, working class men?

When? I can’t recall a time when men were called that… except maybe when talking about gay men?

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Is this your neo-folk-techno project?

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As I read this, all I can think about is how it would be so nice not to be constantly policed as “not being good enough”.

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Are we still talking about thiiiisssz?

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