Hillary Clinton took the stage last night to make her historic acceptance speech, but male pundits wondered: Didn’t she sound a little... shrill? Wasn’t she... maybe... shouting? Can’t she do something about her... tone? Welcome to the next four months of nuanced, non-sexist political commentary, which also functions…
Sometimes it's not looking like too much like a woman that works against you — it's sounding too much like one. Such was the case for Monica Hanna, a NYC litigator who is determined to alter her naturally "screechy, high pitched, and quick-talking" vocal style to be taken more seriously after firm partners called it…
Bad news for men in the war of gender equality. New research shows that in the art of seduction, women can talk like sexy babies and remain appealing, but men cannot. MISANDRY AT ITS FINEST.
We've all experienced it: watching a home movie or listening to a voicemail played back and being confronted with the horror of how we sound when we speak. Am I really that whiny? Do I really sound like that? How do people's ears not bleed when I talk? We never sound the way we do in our heads. But why? Is technology…
A super helpful new study from Can't Stop, Won't Stop U...niversity of Miami suggests that we, as a lowing aggregate of voting cattle, respond strongest to the most gravelly, Clint Eastwood lower among us when we're deciding on who to put at the head of a stampede. That means that both men and women, the research…
While we've seen bits and pieces from the set of Les Misérables, Perez Hilton seems to have gotten his hands on some video which appears to be an early trailer with Anne Hathaway singing "I Dreamed a Dream." And, umm, to put it gently, her singing doesn't sound that great. Yes, it's hard to tell exactly how bad it is…
When she was 17, Jan Christian was in a horrible car accident that crushed her windpipe and larynx. In the 35 years that followed, she got married, had children, and made a life for herself in which almost no one in her inner circle had ever heard her voice. Until now!!! Scream!
In the eighties, Valley Girlspeak permeated young women's interactions with each other. In the nineties? Young ladies? Were ending things? With a question mark? Now, women end their phrases with a low growl, a la Britney Spears before she needed to be left alone. And in ten years or so, everyone will be ending…
We so often go to great lengths to keep the fact that we're menstruating to ourselves. From hiding our tampons in our pockets on the way to the office restroom to bowing out on dates during inopportune times, we have perfected the art of pretending we never bleed. Uterine lining? What uterine lining? But now it turns…
Depending on how much you like your singers to sound like dying animals, Steven Tyler either destroyed "The Star-Spangled Banner" before today's AFC Championship game, as in knocked it out of the park, or destroyed it as in you cringe so hard that your face breaks. Either way, you have to give Tyler major props for…
In the last few years, young American women have started utilizing a low, growly part of their vocal register known as "vocal fry," and scientists are flummoxed as to why. Desire to date Taylor Lautner and other such lupine heartthrobs? Because ladies be catty? Britney Spears?
A new study points to a surprising way to get ladies to remember things: just talk about them in a low voice. But it has to be a man's voice.
You know when your mom calls and tells you to get more sleep because you sound exhausted? And you're all, "Moooom!" Well actually she probably knows her shit: researchers say our voices change in perceptible ways as we get tired. According to ABC:
According to the Times, voice recognition is the next frontier in technology. As a five-year veteran of voice rec software, I'm extremely skeptical.
Though Scarlett Johansson is known for her deep and torrid voice, a new study shows that women are most attractive to the opposite sex when they are ovulating — because their voices go up in pitch. Researchers Nathan Pipitone and Gordon Gallup recorded women counting from 1 to 10 at different points in their menstrual…
