Do Men With Deeper Voices Get More Respect?

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^huh? R1 I'm confused are you saying you agree or I should play more Bingo?

Can you look into speech therapy to give more gravitas to your voice? Smoking did it for actors years ago and they all or most died of lung cancer so I wouldn't recommend it. Bacall was one of the lucky ones and lasted a long time.

Thanks for the recommendation R3. I used to be intimidated by speech therapy but I think I'll finally try because I want to go further in my career.

[quote]I've seen other guys get complements for having more bass in their voice

Where have you "seen" that?

In my personal experiences R5

Yes.

Oh honey, is speech therapy going to help you with you puny cocklet?

R8 let me stick it in your mouth and see "honey"

[quote] let me stick it in your mouth and see "honey"

Tuffgurl talk.

You got sass, OP, you don't need a deep voice!

Make a conscious effort to stop speaking like that - done

I understand what you're saying R12 but I don't want to sound ridiculous like say, Elizabeth Holmes for example.

Isn't there an app in which you can record your voice and post a sample here?

Vocaroo. There was a charming young English bottom who used it on here quite a bit a few months ago.

Yes, and I just hate Biden for it!

R15 are you referring to Miss Nicolas Fairford?

OP, you are who you are. Some may like you, some won't; some men will follow you until the end of the world.. A higher voice has the benefit of being easier to understand (less growling and mumbling), as long as you maintain a normal volume and don't go all Michael Jackson Fey.

What if Sam Elliott sounded like Richard Simmons?

Historically, men were radio announcers and news reporters. Their voices are "easier on the ear" than women's.

I know you're joking, R17, but he was an authenticated user with the name timothyc, as I recall.

Works for women too. Elizabeth Holmes suckered LOTS of people and it wasn't with her below average looks.

Some people are very attuned to voices and others not at all.

I think most people take note only at extremes of sonorous or gravelly on the one hand and the helium charged piercing on the other.

An aggravating factor to high voices is speaking fast. Speaking a little slower and more deliberately makes a big difference sometimes.

R3 In her autobiography, Lauren Bacall said that Howard Hawks suggested she lower her highg pitched voice by shouting, so she went out into the canyons and read The Robe out loud, in a loud voice. Similarly, Jack Webb had a much lower voice on the 60's version of Dragnet (vs the 50s version) because he screamed for days when playing a drill sergeant in The DI. Lucille Ball's voice was suddenly much lower after doing Wildcat on Broadway. Even though they were all smokers, I'm not sure smoking actually lowers the voice, much. Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire both smoked, and didn't have low voices. Neither did Judy Garland, who smoked a lot.

[quote]I've seen other guys get complements...

Oh, dear!

I do recall a talk show where a speech therapist showed techniques to deepen your voice. One was—if you raise your arms up above your head, you voice naturally lowers

Oh fuck off R25 so I forgot a letter or two big deal. You understood what I meant and that's all that matters.

[quote] What if Sam Elliott sounded like Richard Simmons?

Katharine Ross would have fucked Steve McQueen instead, that slut.

OP, start singing in the shower.

Start singing along to this "oo-papa-mau-mau" chorus for practice:

A gleaming shaven head, gratuitously displayed chest, and a bedroom bass voice and you’ll need bodyguards to pry them off you.

[quote]I do recall a talk show where a speech therapist showed techniques to deepen your voice. One was—if you raise your arms up above your head, you voice naturally lowers

There you go, OP. Now you know what to do. You'll have to put your phone on speaker, obviously.

There is definitely a slight bias OP - I have a very deep voice and people tend to immediately believe whatever absurd nonsense I may say — it’s a running joke between me and my friends.

Perhaps some diction lessons where you learn to make a conscious effort to talk with your “chest voice” rather than your “head voice” will help.

R26, that “speech therapist” was later exposed as an underarm hair fetishist who started countless armpit threads on DL.

R34 Wtf that took an unexpected turn

How come no one's mentioned the famous GAYVOICE documentary.

Because it's mortifying ^^^^^

Try speaking more from your diaphragm

There's more about the GAYVOICE documentary here, OP. I personally loved it. And the American gays seemed great fun and smiley.

*apart from the gay who actually made it. He wasn't so happy.

[quote]Sometimes when I'm on the phone the operator will call me "ma'am" and I have to correct them.

You still talk to the OPERATOR?

[quote]There is definitely a slight bias OP - I have a very deep voice and people tend to immediately believe whatever absurd nonsense I may say — it’s a running joke between me and my friends.

Same, R33. In a meeting, for example, I can offer a few hellos at the start and then wait to offer some opinion, whether to reiterate, to emphasize some particular point, to narrow or clarify the focus, or to suggest a different tacj altogether. People leave persuaded to my view or plan and act like it was a revelatory thing when usually it's just impatience to wrap up a meandering meeting.

A deep voice, the appearance of listening, speaking softly and just a bit slowly, and underplaying rather than hogging the limelight can be very persuasive.

Obviously, OP.

"A deep voice, the appearance of listening, speaking softly and just a bit slowly, and underplaying rather than hogging the limelight can be very persuasive."

I bet R42 has a voice like Barry White!

Masculine men and women get the most respect.

Followed by all other women.

Then, in last place, it's any man who sounds feminine. They're not considered to be "real people" like those mentioned above.

Actress Gloria DeHaven was a contract player at MGM. She appeared in a Joan Crawford movie. She had a high pitched voice, and Joan advised her lower it. (They had lunch in Joan's dressing room, and she liked Gloria.)

She told Gloria to read something aloud...it could be the phone book. She then told Gloria to gradually lower her voice, each time, she read it aloud. It worked! Gloria and Joan were friends. Gloria was so grateful for Crawford's advice. She said Joan was wonderful, to her.

I can definitely see Crawford being warmer to female contracts that her rival Davis.

There's something about Davis that she saw so many other females as a threat.

[quote]Masculine men and women get the most respect.

Masc. women? I don't think so.

If you can't fix it, OP...feature it.

R48. Lesbians trump straight women in the workplace.

Stereotypical ones, apologies. Or manly straight women.

Sometimes deep voices cause a hostile fight reaction in females.

R50, no, they don't.

OP — seeing you only respond to someone “oh dear-ing” you, I can tell you are a MASSIVE CUNT without knowing what you sound like.

Does pulling on one’s balls change the voice? Sounds like a fun game to play with husbear, if I had one.

[quote] OP — seeing you only respond to someone “oh dear-ing” you, I can tell you are a MASSIVE CUNT without knowing what you sound like

R54 Oh really? You can tell that through a computer screen "dutchie"? You obviously cant read because I've been responding to multiple people. And you're the only one that's called me names. Nice. Your mother should've swallowed you like you swallow random nut on your knees in the bathroom stall at the local mall. If anyone is a cunt its the Bitchy PMSing faggot like you who likes to make assumptions on a anonymous website. Go take a shower you stinky Whore.

Ha, imagine OP berating you for teasing him...in his squeaky ma´am/Michael Jackson voice.

R57 faggot

[quote][R57] faggot

Sounds like Dutchie got you right, OP.

Maybe work on the old personality first.

[quote][R57] faggot

I am, R58/OP, a cocksucking, ass eating, takes it and gives it ass-fucking faggot. With a deep voice. Next time maybe say something bad about me if you want to insult?

Your girly, squeaky voice may be the least of your problems.

OP, would you rather have a black man voice when everyone on the other end of the phone can tell you are black?

R61 PLOT TWIST: I'm actually a Black Man lol

That tracks. Black people are always more concerned with perceived masculinity than anyone else. It supposedly has something to do with generational trauma of being emasculated during Jim Crow but it makes them seem dumb when they tell their men to put some bass in their voice. It doesn’t matter how well you provide for your family but god knows, don’t talk like a sissy.

[quote] I'm actually a Black Man lol

I wonder lol

So you really sound like Diana Ross?

R65 I'M COMING OUT!!!

Michael Jackson was a much bigger star than Barry White. Just saying...

Not the sound of the voice, but dragging out vowels makes guys sound gay, as in Faaaabulous.

I agree there are guys with really deep voices that still sound gay

What kind of work do you do, OP? If you really sound like a woman or Micheal Jackson then, yes, it probably hurts you at work.

They sure can R69!

The depth of a man's voice suggests the size and drop of his testicles.

It's more about he penis.

High/baby-voiced women are endearing to people, but high/soft-voiced men are rejected. It indicates weakness, and people want a big strong baritone they can lean on.

There’s voice lowering surgery, but I think it’s in Turkey, so you may want to wait.

R47 There were a number of younger women who talked about Bette having a good relationship with them. Theresa Wright said she and Bette had a good relationship and she always called her Mom, since Davis played her mother in The Little Foxes. I think Betty Lynn was also treated very well by Bette and they were friends, as were Bette and Elizabeth Montgomery.

Also, can someone please tell me why the phrase, "I've seen other guys get complements" was criticized with an "Oh dear"? I must be stupid because I can't find anything wrong with it.

R47 Debbe Reynolds played Bette's daughter in The Catered Affair and they were also friendly. Debbie said, "Bette Davis was a close friend. She loved to have a good time." And also said, "Bette Davis was great to work with, and a wonderful teacher, and very kind to me. We became good friends." Bette also famously wrote a fan letter to Meryl Streep when she was starting out.

R76, here:

R78 Oh, for God's sake, really? How sad you have a need to be the spelling police.

When R76 asked what the problem is, nothing wrong with replying. And knowing the difference between compliment/complement, stationary/stationery, capitol/capital etc. is basic English.

[quote] Deep bass voice = big dick

Yes, it's all about the bass.

[quote]R47 I can definitely see Crawford being warmer to female contacts that her rival Davis.

Yeah. A lot of bulldagger diesel dykes are like that.

As I discovered, a lot of Americans just think English male voices sound gay ;).

Mr. Deep Voice

(now Thomas Johnson at Sean Cody)

You an hear him talk in the video at the end.

Soft voices do have less gravitas, both for men and women. I felt my voice was too soft when I was a teenager, I worked on lowering it, kind of forcibly at first, but my register became deeper and when I hear it recorded I don’t flinch now.

OP = Bubbles with undescended testicles