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by zimpenfish 1888 days ago
Language Log investigated the "vocal fry problem" a few years back.

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=17489

"And they want to talk about the crazy ways that young women are speaking. And the first thing they do is attribute it to young women, even though young men are doing it too. So it's a policing of young people, but I think most particularly young women."