incredibly well-written: on becoming a man when you’ve lived as a woman and seen how ugly masculinity can behttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/magazine/becoming-a-man.html …
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blows my mind that having a deeper voice just instantly makes you more credible and authoritative: people lean in more, want to listenhttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/09/style/transgender-men-voice-change.html …
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“Indeed, a 2012 study published in PLoS ONE found that both men and women prefer male and female leaders who have lower-pitched voices” -> if you’re a woman pursuing authority, it’s in your best interest to speak in a lower register, hence speech coacheshttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/20/us/politics/women-voices-authority.html …
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https://youtu.be/S1xxcKCGljY is a must watch, both as general commentary and as a trans woman talking about her experience w/ masculinity
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having been on T I experienced all of this and it is wiiiild
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even now I'm taken more seriously than I was pre-T, and I'm pretty sure it's the lowered voice
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