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[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 23 insightful - 17 fun23 insightful - 16 fun24 insightful - 17 fun -  (4 children)

I bet he's whispering because he lives with his parents and they've already told him far too many times to knock it off with the lesbian shit already.

[–]PenseePansyBio-Sex or Bust 15 insightful - 10 fun15 insightful - 9 fun16 insightful - 10 fun -  (3 children)

lol and/or because he can barely use his vocal cords, lest those telltale male bass tones come through; i.e., he has a bad case of Michael Dorsey Voice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFtG9BPmJ9o

Now I wanna hear this dude's ultra-phony breathiness disappear when someone knocks on his bedroom door, and he unthinkingly responds with a natural baritone "WHAT???" that'd make the late Alan Rickman sound like the Bee Gees.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 12 insightful - 7 fun12 insightful - 6 fun13 insightful - 7 fun -  (2 children)

This is probably true too. I knew a MtF who had a really nice voice before "coming out as trans". It wasn't masculine but had some soft bass to it.

After he turned MtF he became nearly impossible to hear on discord.

I was literally at the point of adjusting all audio settings on my entire PC just to try and hear this person but it was still just impossible sometimes because his whisper would go to nothing sometimes. I actually had all my audio settings turned up to 100% and then had all my other settings scaled down to like 10% in the volume mixer... Except discord which was at max 100% then I had this person cranked up another 200% inside discord because that was the max. Due to this I would need to manually turn EVERY SINGLE OTHER PERSON who joined a channel down to like 5-10%.

I dealt with this for months and no quantity of complaining would convince him to speak up. He would just move the microphone closer to his mouth and then somehow get quieter... Like literally no sounds come out just slight puffs of air then he got upset if you didn't hear something.

Finally I just asked if he was whispering to this point because he was afraid of his original voice sounding slightly male. He said yes then was clearly upset and then that's the last I heard from him so I got to turn my sounds back to normal.

[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Damn, that sounds annoying. I'm glad to hear you spoke up about it and they got duly triggered, solving the problem. If there's one thing I hate is that fake-ass whispering some use to sound more "gentle" or "nonthreatening". Second thing is vocal fry. Vocal cords are meant to be used and normally.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

He wasn't very loud to begin with but his voice was not incredibly manly so I'm not sure what the deal was. It seemed entirely in his head like a voice version of anorexia.