Posh accents on men are just awful

[Croufer]

I’m talking Made in Chelsea type accents. For some reason there is a sex bias to this as they sound much better on females (wonder why this is).

I went to a private school in Berkshire so know my accent would potentially sound posh but to me (and most in the south) it is very bog standardly middle class.

Just curious if I’m the only who secretly thinks this? Got a voice note off of a guy I met on hinge and sadly the Pliny* accent killed the entire thing.

*plumy

Im not saying this to offend. I’m just curious why I recoil and if anyone experiences similar

This is just a personal opinion. I’m just putting it out as a random thought. If you’re going to take offence, then I think that’s a bit silly. Humans have irrational responses and I’m just sharing mine

And other people can find that shallowness hugely unpleasant. News flash.

I daresay you wouldn't like to know what we call him in our house (hint: it rhymes). Did you know he changed the spelling from 'Blount' (posho way of writing 'Blunt')?

i think his family are originally from denmark @SeeSeeRider

But in the 10th century.

Yes, isn’t most of the cast of MiC fairly new money, rather than UC? Bar that Mountbatten descendant. Their accents mostly don’t strike me as UC, and yes, the vocal fry is excruciating. (Though I’ve only ever seen clips of it, so I could be wrong…)

We and all our friends would probably be considered to have ‘posh’ accents.

I loathe an estuary accent. Really hate it.

so do you know why they changed the spelling?

Hung like a spectacularly well-bred racehorse?

I say, @Croufer old gel, what is this plumy Pliny accent you post of?

I'm rather fond of my fellow Old Estonian, Rees-Moggy.

Still hanging around patiently waiting to find out where “Pliny accent” came from…

And plumy? Sounds like something to do with feathers.

YABU to say they are awful on men, but not on women. What an odd thread!

Ah hold on, I just saw that the OP has now been edited.

So it’s “plumy”…talks like he has feathers in his mouth?

I'm with you here. I'd say an upper class male accent is the least sexually appealing of all accents! And strangely on women it sounds quite sexy?
In men I like Yorkshire, northern Irish and most Scottish. Some southern Irish if not too mumbly. (I'm Irish btw) A lot of cockney type accents are too high pitched for my liking.
I don't know why the posh one seems so awful though. They sound like they think they love the sound of their own voice a lot of the time. Haha.

Cross post!

I like to hear well spoken English - I suppose what you are calling 'a posh accents' on both men and women. A lot of what is on Made In Chelsea isn't actually 'posh' but lower middle class putting it on. The vocal fry as someone else has said is something else but really 'posh' people don't sound like that. They are closer to a 1940s Radio 4 presenter or the Queen.

People have their own preferences though to do with all sorts of things including personal taste and past experiences.

I can't stand an Australian accent on women but it's tolerable on men for some reason.I don't like it on men much either but I don' thave that nails on blackboard feeling that a female australian accent gives me.

I have the same reaction to a Northern Irish accent on a man (but that I think is to do with a horrible man when young) but not women.

'They' didn't; he (himself only) started using James Blunt as his stage name after he left the army and took up singing (if you can call it that). To make it 'easier to spell, apparently (poshos aren't cool or hip). His legal name is still James Blount and Blount is his family name.

I was genuinely looking at ‘Pliny’ and wondering if his contemporaries described him as particularly well-spoken, because I think we know very little about his parentage or early life… ‘Plumy’ is odder, though. High-pitched and feathery?

I think it’s more to do with the pitch. I quite like a posh accent when it’s with a deep, manly voice like Hugh Grant or Colin Firth. Not so much when it’s a higher pitch like James Blunt.

@Willmafrockfit , actors and singers often have stage names, often it's because someone already has the name, or it just works for them.
It's not necessarily an affectation.

I don’t like posh accents either, they make my skin crawl 🤷‍♀️

Agree an UC accent has to be deep and not too clipped: the most attractive thing about Boris is his voice

Did he have a different accent when you met? Did he sound like an East end barrow boy? Not that there is anything wrong with that, I love the cockney accent.
If he's always had the accent and the mannerisms why did you marry him? Is he mega rich?

Dominic West, he could muffin me. Alan Rickman (but he looks like my brother so we' ll scrap that one ).

However my very posh late mother used to say we don't have accents darlings, just voices.

Definitely the least sexy accent on men.

its also really cringe when public school posh boys try and speak in a MLE dialect.