vegetariantaxidermy wrote:The funny thing about voices is that a beautiful voice can make a man incredibly sexy (think Richard Burton, Russell Crowe), but men don't seem to give a toss how awful a woman's voice is.
Anyone can sound sexy simply by putting energy, emotion, and intelligence into the voice. Form follows content.
My old roomie answered the phone to a woman I was arranging 'time' with. After he handed the phone to me, she confessed a deep relief that his my voice was nothing like his. And she herself had a sexy, deep tone to hers.
Americans tend to speak very high-pitched anyway, (they have got higher and higher and more and more shrill over time). There is one American actor who stands out voice-wise and that's George Clooney. He has a very nice voice.
vegetariantaxidermy wrote:The funny thing about voices is that a beautiful voice can make a man incredibly sexy (think Richard Burton, Russell Crowe), but men don't seem to give a toss how awful a woman's voice is.
Anyone can sound sexy simply by putting energy, emotion, and intelligence into the voice. Form follows content.
My old roomie answered the phone to a woman I was arranging 'time' with. After he handed the phone to me, she confessed a deep relief that his my voice was nothing like his. And she herself had a sexy, deep tone to hers.
Americans tend to speak very high-pitched anyway, (they have got higher and higher and more and more shrill over time). There is one American actor who stands out voice-wise and that's George Clooney. He has a very nice voice.
I have just had a similar experience to Greta's. I was in the supermarket 'express lane' (15 items or less) and the person in front of me was holding things up for ages, so I asked the checkout guy where the 'cool bags' were. He said they were at the start of the checkout. I tried to get to them (not holding anyone up), and the old fuck next in the queue refused to moved, just stood there like a malevolent zombie, staring me out. I asked him what the fuck his problem was, and he said 'count your items'. I said 'there are 15' plus some expletives. It got quite ugly, then I thought how I should have smiled and offered him my place in the queue. As it was, my 'flight or fight' mechanism over-rode everything else. What is 'kind'? Someone who only has a weak 'fight or flight' mechanism? Does that necessarily make them a better person? I might have made him feel bad if I had been nice to him. Is that really being 'kind'?
