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I found this to be a very well-written article about a concept I wasn't previously aware of. Here follow some interesting choice quotes - but I recommend reading the actual article:
Then more context - conveying submission to male authority:
These changes in voice are deliberate:
Interesting roots:
I found this quote referenced in the article very remarkable:
Of such women in power who use the fundie baby voice, the article goes on to quote the following:
Toward the end of the article, the very valid warning:
Solid recommend at the end.
I do agree, but my experience with fundie women (Christian women who "know their role") is that yes, there is point where they are victims of this system of belief, but they will NOT think twice about using their proximity to power to victimize/bully/subjugate others, whether it's people of color, lgbtq or anyone not in their bubble.
Angela from The Office.
Exactly. One of the most complicating factors in feminism has always been that there have always been means for women to use proximity to men to gain power over others in accordance with the power of those men. For example in the era shortly following the abolition of slavery in the United States women had practically no rights that did not come from their husbands or fathers, but could still get a black man killed by claiming he hit on her.
Some women prefer it that way. In exchange for autonomy they receive a form of alternative authority and are able to abdicate responsibility for the power exerted in their names. If you already wanted what they demand of you, then you have little reason to question the morality involved here and they sell a life that for some is very nice. And it’s not like you’ll need an abortion to save your life or will find your husband getting violent or will have a queer kid. That happens to other people, less holy people, sinners. They’re the ones who are why your life is difficult.
And there’s also the hypocrites. The Phillis Schlafely types. They believe they belong in their place but don’t want to do it so they try to make it mandatory.
It's like if you change it up and let the kids who never get picked first be the team captains, the very first people they pick will be the people who never picked them. Everyone just wants to be winners.
In the loyalist worldview, there is nothing but hierarchy. That's why these people are stereotypically awful to waitstaff: those employees are beneath them. Anything short of subservience is a personal attack.
I need folks to understand that people in this tribalist mindset do not evaluate information. They only accept or reject claims based on interpersonal loyalty. Reality itself is defined by whatever the people above them say, today. Their betters must be smarter and richer and more handsome, or else they wouldn't be above them. 'Where's your Bugatti?'
Reasoned argument is a learned behavior. It's visibly not what these people are using their brains for. They're still just shuffling cards. So yes, many individuals above them are now wrong and ugly and poor, and condemning them will involve a lot of familiar terms that outgroup critics told them in vain. But they're not fixed. They didn't suddenly recognize the system. They just passed their excusable limit on bad things happening to them, personally.
And they're still liable to waltz back in, even if it gets worse. All they need are better excuses to raise the limit.
Then spend your time that way. I'm far more concerned with one guy, with heaps of allies, setting the terms across the country.
Others can make sure some women learn "their real place."
I don't see how anything you said after "but" was related to anything except to annihilate your first 3 words.
That is hauntingly fascinating
I’d heard that voice, but didn’t know it was actively taught. What the actual fuck‽ Also why the fuck do these people want their wives to sound childlike‽ Maybe it’s just the lesbian in me talking but as I get older (not even 30 yet) I increasingly want my women more womanly. Give me an opinionated 40 year old over an insecure 19 year old every time. Every time I learn about fundamentalists pushing unnatural youth onto women I’m reminded of how I’ve heard that child molestation is more often about power than desire. And they act as though it’s all just nature, but if it was what was natural they wouldn’t have to put so much effort into reinforcing these hierarchies and forcing dominant women into servile roles and punishing men who are insufficiently dominant.
Me too, I thought it was organic. Like they develop their own slang, why not their own accent?
It's really disgusting how we still have these ridiculous "norms" to deal with. In opposition to the baby voice we have women who need to modulate their voice to be deeper if they want to be taken more seriously in "professional" settings. It's all very stupid...
Or they have to curse, and tell filthy vulgar jokes to be "one of the guys" in corporate environments.