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Why You Hate Women’s Voices

The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism

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Women's Voices on the Radio

Women's voices can get into the annoying area if it gets too high. If you're doing a podcast, consider lowering your pitch a tad. Just because you are saying this thing doesn't make it automatically not misogynistic because you are yourself a woman. You may have caught this tweet from Jane Lynch a few months ago. I love women. I am a woman. Our voices are higher than men's voices. We just don't trust the female voice. It's nasally. It's too high. And like the vitriol people feel is so strong. The statistics are still so skewed. Women of color, black women, Asian women are so rarely the protagonist of news stories unless they

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