Women with fake little girl voices

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Is it me or are they becoming more prevalent? I moved to Australia 4 years ago and they are RIFE here. I was constantly confused by the high-pitched voices and thought "Is this part of the accent?" But I've realised it isn't. It's a forced, high-pitched squeak which some women do.

I know some women naturally have high, young sounding voices but I can tell the fake ones a mile away.

I HATE THEM so MUCH! Speak properly for God's sake!

I've noticed American girls/women with voices so low that my throat aches in sympathy. It doesn't sound natural, more that it's 'a thing'. The most recent time I've heard it was in this video

I think this is an important discussion too, worth having. I worked alongside a woman who was really strong and decisive, no nonsense. Loved her approach to things. Until she met my dh for the first time and my head almost swung off in shock at the voice she came out with - simpering, sickly sweet and five decibels higher in pitch. She clearly was doing it to appeal to him in some way but why I'll never know. Lost a lot of respect for her.

Juels I don't think her voice is that low. It's adenoidal yes but not that low. Mine's lower for sure.

I have a low voice, but you can hear her vocal chords vibrating at some stages, 4.27 for instance. It just sounds strained. Maybe it's when she's upset?

I had a naturally high girly voice until i was about 26. Listening to myself i thought it sounded affected but it definitely wasn't and it didn't sound that way from inside my head. Not australian tho.

I also have a family member whose voice is so tiny i suspect she might have an issue with her vocal chords. It's like the way your voice gets when you're very scared but it's all the time.

• I think it is becoming more prevalent. I see it as part of the growth in gender stereotyping promoted by social media. To be a girl/woman you have to have long hair, wear floaty dresses, paint your nails and talk in a „feminine“ way while fluttering your eyelashes. If you conform to that model you are a woman regardless of sex/chromosomes. And obviously, if you do not conform to that model you must be a bloke.*

@Lemonmeringue33

100% agree

My mum does it and it drives me crackers (she is in her 60's). Also along with the pigeon toed girly stance.
Usually when shes actually being an underhand evil witch and wants to hide beneath the cute innocent exterior she (thinks) she is presenting.
I have no issue with high voices (when I hear myself on call recordings I sound like a child) but there is a HUGE difference between a high voice and an affected girly put-on one.

My MIL used to speak in a little girls voice and it sounded quite put on.
She did it when speaking to both males and females. However she was a very selfish woman who had everyone at her beck and call. Once in a blue moon we'd hear her real voice when we upset her by refusing to run round after her!

I have a naturally soft voice and I don’t like it It sounds almost childlike when I send audio messages or if I’m on the phone to someone say abroad or with a poor connection and somehow my voice echoes back, I have to deepen my voice on purpose to sound much more maturer when speaking and try to project my voice more when teaching or presenting etc. That’s why I like smaller class numbers and meetings with less people because projecting your voice whilst deepening it, can be very tiring. So I suppose not everyone does it on purpose but I feel like I have no choice but to change my voice when speaking across the room etc. but it just means that I have a sore throat by the end of the day and just feel generally exhausted.

I agree with PP it is NOT about high pitched voices being supposedly irritating, I don't think they are actually - when that is the woman's permanent voice.
it's the altered simpering girly voice that is put on when they are talking to men that makes my skin crawl

One of my pet peeves, OP. I’ve read that Ivanka Trump has a little girl voice.