Any one else find the female voice annoying?

Question

The annoyance reaches its peak when girls are 12-13 and when they first started college (18-19).

I don't mean to be racist but, Caucasian sorority girls seem to be the greatest culprit. Talking in an incredibly annoying, whiny, "kitty-cat" voice. Is this supposed to be cute or something?

Answer 1

I assume you mean the voice in which the following is typically said:

"Oh, my God! You are, like, not going to believe what I just heard! Allie TOTALLY hooked up with Grant last weekend! Isn't Taylor going to be, like, SO MAD?!"

If so, yes.

Answer 2

I'm noticing a distressing trend (or possibly an age acquired intolerance) in female voices. Am I alone here ? Most of my days are spent with NPR (National Public Radio) in the background in my workspace. Years ago I admired NPRs selection of radio voices. They had a noticeable warmth and comfort that allowed listeners to focus on their amazing content. But lately it seems the selection pool of voices that replaced the older personalities now includes younger women with nauseating 'singsongy' endings on nearly every sentence that always ends in a (for lack of a better term) 'nasally' drop in intonation. While at first I ignored it, I now cannot. I began to question NPR's hiring practices and my own intolerance. Was I making something of nothing ? Was this an isolated or manufactured personal problem ? Then I began noticing this same vocal change in responders to call-in programs and various experts used in their programing. I may be forced to become informationally challenged by resorting to background music all day. Any comments out there ?

Answer 3

For me i could be fooled into agreeing that yes the female voice is annoying where as in fact it is just all the whining they do - now girls be fair you do moan a lot more than men.

If you do mean the actual voice though, then in general most girls have v pleasing voices, most girls i know anyway r a joy to the ear, however i live in the u.k and if you think white Caucasian sorority girls are bad try imagining British girls who have watched too much American TV copycatting these voices... Its even worse!

Answer 4

In fact, a men´s brain processes the average female voice with the same area than when it processes music. So, a more accurate description of the female voice would be "artistical" hehe.

Answer 5

There are plenty of male voices that are annoying. I especially can't stand men who talk through their noses or those with high voices. I don't really care for high female voices either.

Answer 6

You really shouldn't cite puberty as an annoying stage in a females voice development. Male voices crack and randomly change tones during puberty, though I never thought of it as annoying. I sympathized with the embarrassment that may cause.

Yes, you are making a racist stereotype. As an African American female living in Berkley, California, I can assure you that the "sorority girl" voice is not inherent in white girls. I find Ebonics to be equally as annoying. I also can't stand the dumb surfer guy voice, but there are bigger things to worry about.

Based on the general theme of all your questions, I'm guessing you just don't like women and that's why you find so many things about them to be "annoying."

It's o.k., hon. It's 2007, there's no shame in admitting you don't enjoy being in the company of women.

Answer 7

I know what you are talking about! Hopefully they will grow out of it. But, no I do not find typical female voices annoying. Anyone who talks loud and obnoxious is annoying to me though, I don't discriminate!

Answer 8

Sometimes the higher pitched voice does bother me, but just as I am not perfect, others also are not. Physiology of men and women are different, of course. A man's voice box allows him to have a lower, stronger voice. That is why when a man gets angry at us, it seems like he is shouting. He isn't (unless he REALLY IS SHOUTING) but women don't have this physiology. Our voices are higher, hence irritating at times.
But when they are talking whiny, and other ways, it is not because of our make-up but because they are using a learned response to get attention, etc.
On TV, I simply tune them lower, or change channels. I don't have friends like this, so no trouble. But, yes, it does grate on my ears at times. Again, I tolerate a lot just because others tolerate some of my weird ways. Peace and enjoy women for all of the other ways we ARE delightful.

Answer 9

We tend to be annoyed by what frightens us. You may have a fear of young girls. It might be a control issue, too, such as not being annoyed by your own wind-chime but be profoundly annoyed by a neighbor's wind-chime, a sound that you do not have control over. Some men with mommy issues resent the sound of women's voices for that reason, which is the most common reason when this comes up in therapy. The vicious snarl of a mother or a teacher in an unbalanced moment can be very high-pitched in a sickening way and leave frightening memories. Also, many men who resent the rise of women associate their naturally higher pitched voices with their "imposition" into traditional men's conservations. But, I haven't seen much of that in a couple of generations. There's also primordial reasons for annoyances with certain sounds. For example, that dreadful screeching sound made by raking fingernails down a chalkboard matches the sound of a baby primate being eaten. We primordially remember the horror of that, when our young screamed as they were being eaten. Also, for me, I get annoyed with certain high pitched voices, like Steven Segal's, because there is an element of artifice or fashionably correctness about it, like it's going to make a person seem more refined or sacred or something. Although young girls naturally have higher pitched voices, it makes me wince when older women speak like children because there's a fakeness in it, a coquettishness about it that seems dishonorable. Young girls in a flock also have a very exuberant flight of speech that sails high in pitch and velocity that young men usually cannot keep up with and makes them dizzy. That could possibly annoy some people.

Answer 10

You're right...when I stop and think about it, high-pitched "noises" give me headaches far more often (and far faster) than low-pitched noises do. And to be perfectly honest, sometimes the content of what teenage girls are talking loudly to each other about is just as annoying as the high-pitched sound of their voices.