My voice is getting measurably deeper but also, somehow, measurably more working-class Ohioan, and I swear to you it’s not an affectation
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I do think it's obvious that in fiction having a more "proper" or "educated" accent is *coded* feminine and that affects how some people talk
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My mom has less of an accent than my dad (they're from Texas, same town) but I think she made more of an effort to lose hers because of the negative stereotypes associated with Southern accents. Maybe men feel more like they'll be taken seriously despite an accent
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Yeah, plus, again, that performance of being down-to-earth gets you points as a guy, whereas a woman has to worry about sounding uneducated
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It is a real thing; men tend (with usual ecological fallacy caveat) to preserve more conservative linguistic varieties, and women (especially young ones) tend to drive linguistic innovation; less research on nonbinary speakers, predictably
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