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'Fundie Baby Voice' Is The Chilling Vocal Trend You Need To Know About (www.huffpost.com)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Moreover, trans women develop the same kind of vocal characteristics on HRT, so saying that women are doing this as some of cultural phenomenon is judgmental and wrong.

Just correcting a common misconceptions, for trans women the voice doesn't change on HRT, as the change in voice with testosterone is not reversible.

Getting similar voice/speech characteristics as cis women is pretty much cultural.

[+] [email protected] -11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Thanks for the correction! Regardless, attacking women on their physiological traits just seems like such a misguided approach to attack someone for their ideas.

These characteristics exist in women who’ve never been exposed to such fundamental ideas! Policing women’s voices is just another way that conservatives are going to win allies.

Edit: what some transphobe might say based on Jess Pipers criticism—“apparently trans women cannot get soft voices on HRT, so these woke people want to police women’s voices out of existence.”

For the love all that is honest and good, I implore people to not attack others on aspects related to their genes and physiology. You’re no better than your ideological enemies then.

I am having a strong reaction to this post because everything about critiquing and policing something physiological about women just seems so misguided to me. Again, we can attack bad ideas without ad hominem attacks.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

“I would describe ‘fundie baby voice’ as a woman’s voice that is higher than average in both pitch and breathiness,” said Kathryn Cunningham, a vocologist and assistant professor of theatre and head of acting at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. “While the average woman’s voice is higher-pitched than the average man’s due to a combination of anatomical and social factors, some women who speak this way seem to be intentionally placing their voices higher than their natural pitch range in order to convey submission to male authority and childlike innocence.”

This assistant professor Kathryn Cunningham answers your question concerning women's anatomy I think.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I am not saying this phenomena doesn’t exist! I am saying that not all women who have higher pitched voices relative to average women’s voices are doing it for fundie reasons. I am saying these women naturally have that voice

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That’s not the points being made in the this thread though. It’s that Katie is intentionally changing her voice for manipulative purposes to meet ends that most folks on this thread disagree with. So I think the criticism is completely valid. There are times when even progressives have double standards about things like body shaming those on the other side but 1 this isn’t that and 2 a lot of times that’s rooted in hitting those people in areas that will affect them.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean, I get that and don’t condone it.

But what happens when someone says that all women who talk like that have the same intentions as Britt?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A key point is that she changes her natural way of speaking, and it's not just a higher pitch, but 'breathy' and softer. If someone is always talking like that naturally you wouldn't assume they were being manipulative.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If someone is always talking like that naturally you wouldn’t assume they were being manipulative.

Yes, true. I think that’s the important part. I just don’t want regular women to be a victim of “oh I heard her real voice don’t ya know!”. That’s unfortunately how society works, people use any dimension against a perceived enemy for any reason, including petty social or sexual jealousy.

I think part of feminist ideals is mitigating all attack vectors related to physical attributes of women, and that includes their voices (and yes, I know! These conservative fakers are putting on a front for duplicitous reason).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah that is a good point, women are scrutinized enough as it is, the idea of this voice being a thing would make me anxious if I sounded like that naturally hah.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh yea, it's stupid no matter if it's purely philological or partly cultural.