What’s the appeal of that podcast again?

  • _else [she/her,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    am i mixing it up with the other thing? the shit we're policing peoples voices for and the current fashions are so hard to follow

    • ziper1221 [none/use name,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah I think you are thinking of uptalk. It doesn't happen to me, but there is some conceivable basis for vocal fry causing discomfort. For example (unrelated to fry or uptalk) some youtube videos that I watch cause physical discomfort in my ears-- kind of like a milder form of when you hear something really loud and your ear shuts off. Something about the way the voice is mixed is just physically grating. Even turning the audio down to barely perceptible levels doesn't solve it.

      Uptalk is a purely prescpitivist social thing, like you said.

      • _else [she/her,they/them]
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        4 years ago

        i think a lot of people get them mixed up

        and the criticism is still bullshit and anyone complaining about frequency here is literally just saying bigoted bullshit and blaming cis women for adjusting voices to their culture to gain respect. its a no-win situation and you're perpetuating it. so yes, oops, wrong thing, but also I think some other people were talking about the wrong thing, and shitting on either is bullshit. you do not find those frequencies annoying from a material perspective, this is cultural and cultural biases should always be interrogated..