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[–]MBMayfair 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, those voices. Once you catch on to it, they're unmistakable. Like you said, there's a note of helium to them - they remind me of slightly lower-pitched elves. They lack the depth (or fullness?) of a man's voice. I spot them easily now.

[–]PenseePansyBio-Sex or Bust 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There's a bass note in even relatively high men's voices that no woman has, including those with deep, husky contraltos a la actresses Lauren Bacall and Kathleen "Jessica Rabbit" Turner. I mean, I've always had a relatively low voice myself, even as a kid, and nobody ever mistook me for a male. Because that particular tone isn't there.

I really notice this, because for some reason I'm highly sensitive to it-- it's one of the things that I find attractive about men. The voice overall doesn't need to be deep, necessarily (although I could listen to the late Alan Rickman all day!); just gotta have that distinctively-male element. Though leave it to "transwomen" to mess up a good thing and make it sound creepy! Trying to hide that with a strained higher pitch and cartoonish "breathiness" is a crime against women (not to mention anyone with functioning ears).