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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s no reason it should harm careers except misogyny. [/quote]

+1 Stop policing women's vocal tone, and listen to what they say.

Here's an interesting article on voice, to dispel a lot of myths. 
[img]https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2019/08/07/749060986/sounding-like-a-reporter-and-a-real-person-too[url]

Vocal fry is one of the main voice complaints sent to the Invisibilia team, said project manager Liana Simstrom, who handles audience engagement for the narrative podcast about human behavior. Even the show's reviews on iTunes are full of complaints about the voices of the hosts, both of whom are women, especially their vocal fry.

Simstrom ascribes those criticisms to gender: "[b]I have long had a theory that part of what people take issue with about our show is women speaking authoritatively about science[/b]."

[b]She pointed out that Ira Glass, the host of This American Life who has an iconic radio voice, uses a lot of vocal fry.[/b] "I think of Ira Glass as the king of vocal fry," she said. "It's so quintessential to his delivery." This American Life even did a segment on the negative messages their women reporters receive about vocal fry.[b] But Glass said in that episode that he never hears about his.[/b]

[b]Eckert, the linguist, found that the biggest users of vocal fry are actually men[/b]. In the Fresh Air episode about criticism of young women's voices she said,"People are busy policing young women's language, and nobody is policing older or younger men's language."[/quote]

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