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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Listen young women. Don't let people gaslight you into looking even further at yourselves to figure out what's wrong with you and why can't you fit in and change to sound more like a man.

Professor Higgins asked this question in "My Fair Lady," why can't a woman be more like a man?" He was giving her voice lessons to turn a low class gutter snipe into a high society lady, as an experiment.

Just ignore these idiots. Talk how you want to talk. [/quote]

Let's be clear about something, babe: You're not going to normalize these unprofessional manners of speaking. Another thing that's not going to be normalized in corporate spaces is this whole choose-your-own-pronoun nonsense. [/quote]

Babe.... oh boy.. he used Babe... he must be very serious. I mean, he did say BABE![/quote]

Ugh this is so gross. Any man that talks to women like that, even anonymously, is just looking for reasons not to hire women and keep his good ol’ boys club going. [/quote]

Agreed, but the "talk how you want to talk" is one of those women who expects the business and the world to revolve around her.  For any person who does this, male or female, and more senior people recommend against it, take that advice to heart.[/quote]

This makes no sense. No one is expecting the business and the world to revolve around them. They just want to talk how they naturally talk without being judged or discriminated against because of it. Some people have high voices, some people have low voices, raspy voices, stutters, vocal fry, vocal tics, disfluencies, accents, speech impediments...as long as you’re communicating clearly and respectfully it just doesn’t matter in most jobs. Your special snowflake ears will be okay. [/quote]

But of all those things listed, vocal fry is the only one that’s an affectation. It’s not natural. I would similarly be annoyed by anyone who spoke in a fake British accent to try to sound smarter or more interesting.
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