Men use “vocal fry” more than women, counter to stereotype

Study suggests "the bias is real but socially constructed, rather than grounded in how women actually sound."

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[MilanKraft]

Seems like it's simply easier to hear or notice in higher pitched voices.

This and also, society has much bigger fish to.... and yeah, it's annoying as hell regardless of who is doing it, however...

...with the amount of distraction and noise the average person contends with on a daily basis, there is only so much mental bandwidth available for what's actually important and then hopefully taking some form of action.

I wish all news outlets (not just Ars) would shelve these types of "interesting but not particularly important" stories for a while, and focus for now on the wide array of human endeavor (including communications / entertainment related topics) that are impacted by our society slowing burning to the ground right in front of our faces, on a near-daily basis now. Focus, humans... focus. Or bad shit's gonna happen a lot sooner than many people suspect.