The Waves: Why You Hate Women’s Voices
Slate Gender and Society
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What Is the Biggest Thing That You Wish You Could Tell Women About Their Voice
Alissa: We have so many descriptors of what makes a woman's voice bad but we don't have the same number of descriptors for what makes a man's voice bad. If you stop saying like you wouldn't in some sense be censoring yourself, she says. "You would just be policing your own self to the point where you'd probably just stop saying certain things because you're afraid of saying them" She adds that men also do devil's advocating which is something we can call out opining pontificating they can sound too nasal I feel like we celebrate them for it like we celebrate iverglass and tucker Carlson Alissa recommends reading her new book go by hysterical
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