Comment by kadoban
8 months ago
There's a lot of money and effort spent in satisfying the sexual desires of (predominantly straight) men. There's not typically quite as much interest in doing the same for women.
For example I've been looking at models and loras for generating images, and the boards are _full_ of ones that will generate women well or in some particular style. Quite often at least a couple of the preview images for each are hidden behind a button because they contain nudity. Clearly the intent is that they are at least able to generate porn containing women. There's a small handful that are focused on men and they're very aware of it, they all have notes lampshading how oddball they are to even exist.
I would expect that this is not as pronounced an effect in the world generating speech, but it must still exist.
I think this is a very lazy kind of cultural analysis. The reason female voices are being chosen over male ones is a little more multifaceted than just SEX. Heterosexual women also tend to prefer female voices over male ones.
Female voices are often rated as being clearer, easier to understand, "warmer", etc.
Why this is the case is still an open question, but it's definitely more complex than just SEX.
I don't think that this is the only factor, I just suspect that it is _a_ factor.
>There's not typically quite as much interest in doing the same for women.
Women also prefer female voices.
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That you consider it sex (rather than gender), is exactly why there’s a preference for female coded voices. Consider where we do hear male recorded voices used as default.
Overloaded term. It was a reference to the parent's reference.
> satisfying the sexual desires of
So, "sex" as a reference to "sexual desires". In English, it just so happens that "sex" has other meanings, but those weren't in play at the time.
How the hell would you determine someone's self assigned social gender based on there voice which is a result of there physical sex.
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