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Post A Reply Login Name: Password: Message Icon:                                                                       Message: HTML is not enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. [QUOTE]Originally posted by patrickvienna: [QB] I'm curious about how we assign genders to voices, and how we feel when people do that. For example, on the telephone, when someone finds out that I'm a young person (I'm twenty), I often get told that I sound like a thirty or forty year old man, which I think is kinda rude. Some person I don't know well seems to feel the need at this time, basically, to tell me that my voice doesn't match my face. It's not just that they're telling me I sound a different age than I am, it's the thing they don't even acknowledge they're doing - assuming from my voice that they can call me a "man" - that annoys me. I don't know if I have to consciously change my voice - which, if I go with habit, is very deep - to make it "match" how I feel about my gender identity. Lately, whenever I notice whatever pitch my voice is in, I get very self conscious, wondering if it sounds more masculine than I want it to, or, if it sounds less deep, whether people think that sounds deliberately put on. How do you all feel about voices and what they mean for your gender identity? [/QB][/QUOTE]

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