What is vocal fry and why are we fighting about it?

  • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    What is vocal fry

    it's a thing where you drop your voice low and relax your vocal chords so your voice sounds kinda creaky, think it's exclusively an american thing

    why are we fighting about it?

    we're leftists

    • 4bicycles [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      think it’s exclusively an american thing

      Can't confirm, chief.

      • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        huh, i am really learning a lot about a thing i didn't know existed before today lol

          • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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            4 years ago

            i also didn’t know it was problematic / sexist when about women

            a lot of the discourse around vocal fry and women originally cropped up in the earlier days of podcasts cuz you'd have these various panels of dudes and one woman and you'd have a bunch of comments and even cases of people directly messaging the women and being like "ugh i can't fucking STAND her voice." At least that's when I remember it being a big thing. Other than the "valley girl"="airhead" trope of the 80s

  • D61 [any]
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    4 years ago

    The best I've been able to understand is its when a person speaking ends their sentences in a lower/gravely/cracking way. For some reason when the person speaking is perceived as a woman, it causes irrational anger in some listeners.