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Re:Meet Q, a Genderless Voice by nonsince on Thursday March 28, 2019 @05:38AM (#19510625)
The number of people saying that this voice sounds absolutely female is just an extension of the tendency to imagine anything even slightly deviating from the most stereotypically masculine as feminine by default. The one comment that I saw comparing this to a masculine voice was comparing it to a "gay flight attendant" that they had on a flight recently - and there, again, is the tendency to assume someone's gay just because they deviate slightly from the stereotypically masculine. The voice sounds genderless to me.
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Re:Meet Q, a Genderless Voice by thraway-burnout on Thursday March 28, 2019 @05:59AM (#19510715)
Or maybe because it kinda does sound like a gay flight attendant.

Sometimes a pipe is just a pipe.

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Re:Meet Q, a Genderless Voice by purple-dragon on Thursday March 28, 2019 @06:34AM (#19510886)
It’s disappointing to see you pull out such an easy, cheap, and tired stereotype.
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Re:Meet Q, a Genderless Voice by thraway-burnout on Thursday March 28, 2019 @06:44AM (#19510927)
So there are no gay flight attendants? There isn't an overrepresentation of gay people within flight service?

I didn't say all flight attendants are gay – this is obviously not the case. But some are, and I've met quite a few of them. And if I try to average out their voice and mannerisms in my mind, it leads me to a sonic place that's close to this voice.

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Re:Meet Q, a Genderless Voice by purple-dragon on Thursday March 28, 2019 @07:00AM (#19510981)
We’re not talking about the same thing. There are likely gay people in nearly every occupation. That you think you can tell by their voice is ignorant and prejudicial.
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Re:Meet Q, a Genderless Voice by i_am_nomad on Thursday March 28, 2019 @08:33AM (#19511516)
One probably can’t tell that with 100% precision, but the brain is a fantastic statistical prediction device that is specifically wired to make deep inferences from vocal patterns. I would imagine the correlation between “gay” vocal characteristics and actual homosexuality is close to 1.
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