| the two sexes do grow physically different vocal systems, Do note, the trait being discussed has absolutely nothing to do with women having a higher voice. Instead, it has to do with any person raising the pitch of their voice at the very end of a sentence. In English, this 100% means "a question". So instead of saying: * meeting over. upspeak means * meeting over? When employed with every sentence, it sounds as if one is always asking for input, or unsure of their last statement, for they are perpetually asking questions. This is not sexist, as for at least hundreds of years, English spoken by virtually every English speaker has been this way. This upspeak phenomenon started about 20 years ago, generally agreed upon as starting in California. When it first started, many people discussed this in newspapers, journals, etc. It isn't a new thing, men have also erroneously learned to do it too, and it is simply the same as many other things "one tries not to do when speaking". The sad part is, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, male managers now feel threatened trying to help female colleagues, due to incidents like this. They will still try to help male colleagues, which has the horrible side effect of leaving women out. Of putting women on inequal footing, when male managers who want to help, fear for their careers and safety if they try to mentor. If I was female, I'd literally blast another woman which used something such as this, as a false sexism flag. Women have it tough enough as it is. The growing perception, thanks to twitter and isolated events like this is, don't get involved with helping women, misery will be the outcome. That's just sad. |
I was just pointing out that "how vocal sounds are made" has some known physical differences, unlike "what colour do you prefer".