We might thk we know what a gay person sounds like. But there are veats to the cliche — and ‘voice-shamg’ tells a lot more about our culture than do about the person speakg
Contents:
- WHY IS THAT SOME GAY MEN EMPLOY AN EFFEMATE VOICE?
- THE GAY VOICE
- WHAT MEANS TO ‘SOUND GAY’
- WHAT'S THE LK BETWEEN HOMOSEXUALY AND HAVG A 'GAY VOICE'
- GAY MEN GIVE THEIR BT LIFE ADVICE TO STRAIGHT MEN
- DO YOU SOUND GAY? WHAT OUR VOIC TELL – AND WHAT THEY DON’T
- REDDORS SOUND OFF ON ‘GAY VOICE’ AND WHETHER THEY -SWCH
WHY IS THAT SOME GAY MEN EMPLOY AN EFFEMATE VOICE?
This also appli to gay women and their employment of the mascule ton. * gay man voice reddit *
I don't unrstand why male homosexuals have an "accent".
I am not homophobic. The way that male gays talk don't even really bother me unls 's overtly flamboyant, I fd myself sensive to loud talkg no matter who is. I know a few gay men who don't talk this way at all.
Hey Redd, Why do gay men change their voice / accent? Why n you tell a gay man om his voice?
THE GAY VOICE
What the way we talk says about gay pri and lgerg prejudice * gay man voice reddit *
Why do gay men change their voice to sound "gay"? I have gay iends that change their voice when they are around other gay men, but go back to "normal" when they are not (talkg to their parents or somethg). Do they do this so others n intify them as gay, if not why?
The Typil “Gay Man Voice” is Annoyg. I feel as though the typil gay man voice is annoyg.
It’s nothg personal, but I have known a uple guys who talked normal who me out as gay and then started to adopt this voice as if was “part of the culture” or societal ndng. I personally know a handful of gay men who do not have the “gay man voice” lisp thg (and they aren’t tryg to subdue ) so ’s obvly not geilly related to beg gay. It’s almost a way to broadst that you are gay, which is fe but om my perspective annoyg sce there’s no reason to talk like that.
WHAT MEANS TO ‘SOUND GAY’
Self-nsc about the way he speaks, David Thorpe has explored why some people his muny ‘sound gay’ and others don’t a new documentary. * gay man voice reddit *
CMV: Many straight men would sound like the stereotypil "gay voice" if they didn't force their voice the be eper. Now pretty much everyone says I have a "gay voice" which I agree, I do thk I sound "gay" bee stereotypilly the pch of my voice sounds like the other gay people (<average). However I do feel like some straight men purposely make their voice eper jt to NOT sound "gay" even though naturally their pch wouldn't be as low.
WHAT'S THE LK BETWEEN HOMOSEXUALY AND HAVG A 'GAY VOICE'
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Obvly some straight people and gay people have ep voic, voic e high and lows, but how many of the ep voiced men actually would sound like that whout purposely "puttg some bass their voice"? This also appli to gay women and their employment of the mascule ton. Why do some gay men have very effemate voic?
Portugue man arrted Turkey for 19 days jt bee he "looked gay". Why do some gay men “sound” gay? After intifyg phoic characteristics that seem to make a man’s voice sound gay, their bt hunch is that some gay men may subnscly adopt certa female speech patterns.
GAY MEN GIVE THEIR BT LIFE ADVICE TO STRAIGHT MEN
A Reddor set off a fascatg nversatn about -swchg and “gay” voicg recently, askg his fellow r/askgaybros ers whether they * gay man voice reddit *
They want to know how men acquire this manner of speakg, and why – pecially when society so often stigmatiz those wh gay-soundg voic. Rogers and Smyth are also explorg the stereotyp that gay men sound effemate and are regnized by the way they speak. They asked people to listen to rerdgs of 25 men, 17 of them gay.
DO YOU SOUND GAY? WHAT OUR VOIC TELL – AND WHAT THEY DON’T
Perhaps fewer than half of gay men sound gay, says Rogers. The straightt-soundg voice the study was fact a gay man, and the sixth gayt-soundg voice was a straight man.
Most of are faiar wh the stereotype of a “gay voice. Do gay men actually sound different than straight men? The are the qutns a new documentary, “Do I Sound Gay?
” It’s a fascatg and nuanced film, which the filmmaker, David Thorpe, his feelgs about his voice to look at attus toward homosexualy. It rais a plited discsn about gay pri, lgerg homophobia, disguised misogyny, and the extent to which we all alter the image that we prent to the the film begs, Thorpe is disturbed bee he realiz he don’t like his voice any more.
REDDORS SOUND OFF ON ‘GAY VOICE’ AND WHETHER THEY -SWCH
He rri out thoughtful nversatns wh his iends and proment gay and lbian figur – cludg Gee Takei, David Sedaris, Dan Savage, Margaret Cho and Don Lemon – about what means to “sound gay. But so dog, v everyone to thk about what their own voice says about who they are, where they me om, and where they want to science of “the gay voice”To start wh, the stereotypil “gay voice” isn’t necsarily a study published 2003, Ron Smyth, a lguist at the Universy of Toronto, found that participants readily separated rerdgs of 25 diverse voic to those who “sound gay” and those who “sound straight. ” People picked up on featur of the gay stereotype – voic that were higher and more melod were more often labeled "gay.
In Smyth's study, people rrectly gused a man’s sexualy about 60 percent of the time, only a ltle better than another small study at the Universy of Hawaii, both gay and straight listeners were equally as likely to misclassify people as gay or straight. In fact, the straight men wh so-lled gay voic weren't aware that people thought they sound gay at turns out that what most people perceive as a stereotypil "gay voice" is jt a male voice that sounds more stereotypilly feme -- maly, higher pched and more melod.
And that often has more to do wh the voic that a person intified wh as they grew up, rather than and other rearchers say some men, both gay and straight, velop more feme voic bee they are fluenced by women when they are young. But that don't mean that they are gay.