You probably know someone, or you've seen someone talk and write like a baby. It was raining heavily on babies and logs. You wondered why, you wished to put an end to this nonsense, but you were tempted to use this baby voice yourself.
Sociologist Anne Karpf has written an entire book on the voice of people and how it doesn't depend on anatomy as much as we believed. We use voice to convey status, power, wealth - voice is influenced by society. Women's voices have thickened over the past 40 years and in advanced countries, they are more similar to men's voices.
We all have different voices - one for the boss, one for the parents, one for the partner and so on. etc. And we move from one voice to another sometimes unconsciously to look more powerful, to write protection or attention.
Girls and women who speak as babies are heavily influenced by social pressure not to touch the male ego.
Women's voices have always been considered unpopular. At one time, women were not allowed to speak in church unless they caused men to feel unclean. Also, they were not preferred as news talkers because women's voices carried a lot of emotion.
Women's voices have always been viewed with the desire that awakens in men and not with what they want to express. A baby has no power in society, no economic power, no sexuality. So they speak so as not to threaten the man in front of them at any level.
According to Karpf, we should not judge women and girls who speak as babies, but society that forces them, in subliminal terms, to choose this kind of voice. However, the fact that this phenomenon is being discussed is a sign of progress.
Adapted from The Guardian