Whats wrong with the MALE voice?

[Anonymous 14]

I am so f~~~ing sick and tired of hearing the f~~~ing female voice everywhere. I am waiting for a train and I hear the announcements in a female voice, waiting for the next flight and there too female voice, customer support female voice 9 out of 10 times, my phone’s voice assistant, Google Now since its an Android and not SIRI and that too a female voice is forced upon me even if I choose a male voice?

The way I figure it, it used to be that most businesses used to consider majority of their customers to be male so they perhaps also assumed that being male they would obviously be lonely and sexually depraved and they would obviously find a female voice more endearing. That used to be the social mindset, but nowadays its mutated into something like, we are so being forced to get accustomed to a female voice that after a while, due to the constant ingraining people become helpless and institutionalised to the level where they just can’t do without a female voice or a female presence in their life for that matter.

Now let me be clear, I have nothing against the female voice in general and I have no problem in being greeted by it now and then. But just imagine, you coming home you are greeted by the voice of JARVIS(Paul Bettany) from Iron Man;

“Good evening sir, hope you had a pleasant day. Will it be tea, coffee or scotch?”

Heck I wouldn’t even mind an AI with the voice of Sean Connery greeting me with

“How was the day you friggin idiot?”

Way better than a fake female voice emanating fake emotions.

What I really fail to understand is why so many people find it so easy to relate every normal regular activity to an ulterior sexual motive. So I happen to find a male voice more reassuring. Not because I’m gay which I’m not and that’s not only because I had a traditional upbringing but I did ponder over it and came to the conclusion that I just don’t feel sexually about the members of my own sex. But what I’m most certainly not is a homophobe so no one can make me feel ashamed of associating and being more at ease with my fellow men or make me antagonise them just by accusing me of being a homosexual.
That just doesn’t work on me. And I’m fed up of seeing happily ignorant blue pilled douchebags like the ones on Motorola’s forums come at me just because I asked if I could change the voice assistant from female to male in the next update. I got greeted by comments like “F~~ detected” “GHAY” “No he’s just a misogynist prick who hates femininity”.

Nah, it hopeless..

P.S. This is just a rant. Needed to let it out of my system. My apology for my choice of words.

[Loose NutsParticipant 37]

They have chosen to use the lowest common denominator (female voice) so it’s the least “offensive” to the most people. If it were a male voice being used everywhere, women would likely complain that they “feel threatened” or that’s it’s another of the patriarchy’s tools of oppression.

[Anonymous 42]

Ever since those “VALLEY GIRLS” from Crapifornia, I hate them! Liiike totally dude! I f~~~ing hate them! I can handle RAP music better than; Auhh like totally dude, I f~~~ing hate it!

I have Serius XM. and I like it, terrestrial radio (AM/FM) sucks!

They need to shoot the squeaky mousy voices that p~~~ me off. I shoved a screwdriver “through” my car stereo and destroyed it, why? To much f~~~ing Phil Collins on the radio at that time, all day long Phil f~~~ing Collins! All he could do is play an 8 second clip, and then loop the f~~~ing thing for 5 minutes, talk about a f~~~ing broken record!

[– Deleted on Request –Spectator 936]

Years ago, when audio warnings were introduced into military aircraft, it was determined that pilots responded better to a female voice.  When there are a lot of different devices and systems requiring attention, and each of them has a different sound, a female voice can be more easily heard through all the noise than that of a male.

 

When I worked at a certain military base, I was told that the warning system on the F-18s was known as “Bitching Betty” because of that.

 

[binlinerParticipant 32]

Every once in a while I receive unsolicited calls with a (live) female voice trying to sell me some bulls~~~ I neither need nor want. I interrupt her in mid-sentence, “Do I know you? Did I tell you to call me?” While she hems and haws, I tell her in no uncertain terms to f~~~ off and don’t call me ever again.

[Puffin StuffParticipant 24979]

I too am offended by the female voice as portrayed or shall we say purloined by old white corperate men.

This is exactly what I mean by rape culture. Listen to the female voices as portrayed by our corperate honcho’s.

Always sweet, always patient, always helpful. What a stereotype. I think there is nothing wrong with what a real woman sounds like and such obsconding with this female voice, the most personal and private thing a woman has. I think it’s a form of vocal rape.

We feminists must rise up and demand that these unrealistic portrayals of women’s voices, which are clearly designed to inculcate a sense of patriarchal dominence of women be taken down. This would at least show corperate censure of the ever present rapist.

Suggested feminist femputer greetings include:

“What do you want? Why you’s always callin me, chilax.”
“Who’s this, wait, I have another call, yes how can I help you, just one minute, sorry I have another call. Is this Chuck, sorry wrong connection… Could you be a sweety and call back when we’re not so busy…click…hmmmmm.”
“What do I look like? Yo moma, now what do you want, I’m busy”

We want a Femputer that tells a man what he wants not gives a man what he needs because, PATRIARCHY!

#icethemout; Remember Thomas Ball. He died for your children.

[HimeoParticipant 471]

I agree with you in principle.

In practice, give me a kawaii asian girl please. Like an adorable bratty little sister.

[ZeroParticipant 38]

Clicking on related links to that video led me down the youtube rabbit hole to a very strange place. I didn’t understand most of what was said, there were bright colors and speech bubbles, and big titted anime girls and fat/ugly real girls everywhere… I … I don’t want to talk about it.

[bigboy83Participant 11312]

Males voice is starting to ROAR like a lion.

Shit Tested, Cunt Approved.

[AussieBlokeParticipant 144]

My Ex used to get really p~~~ed at me when the kids would do what I told them to and completely ignore her.

I told her that it was the deeper voice and the authority of it that made the difference. It also helped that I would speak in a normal voice and not SHRIEK! at them. LOL.

The harder the fight the sweeter the victory

[Cipher HighwindParticipant 1144]

I have not received any such calls; is your number on the Do Not Call list?

Barring that, there is nothing like a whistle blown over the phone to send someone to early deafness.

binliner wrote:

Every once in a while I receive unsolicited calls with a (live) female voice trying to sell me some bulls~~~ I neither need nor want. I interrupt her in mid-sentence, “Do I know you? Did I tell you to call me?” While she hems and haws, I tell her in no uncertain terms to f~~~ off and don’t call me ever again.

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