My problems aside, I think that women’s voices are often precisely “right”. I often get completely lost in the timbres and articulation of peoples voices. Often I don’t even recognize people visually at all, only once they start talking. Some actors with really rich voices such as Matt Berry and Shohreh Aghdashloo inspire an “asmr” type response which can completely overwhelm me if I let it. Where was I again?
Last week I listened to two audio books performed by Adjoa Andoh - Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Sword and Ancillary Mercy, about a galactic empire of black women no less - where she gave individual personalities to dozens of characters. And I could always tell which ones they were instantly. And kept getting my mind blown every so often when I would pause to remember that they were all Andoh.
There tends to be more variety in feminine voices, which I think is almost always a great thing. I can’t imagine what my life would be like without them, they are practically the soundtrack score of life itself. And I do not mean only those with extraordinary voice actor/announcer depth to them. Often I need to check myself if I get too fixated upon somebody’s voice and am rudely following them around in hopes of hearing them, or getting too lost in the music of their speech to follow the details, or paying too much attention to a specific person when my attention should be on others. Probably slightly differing versions of the same problems that many have to deal with when reacting to visible beauty.
