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Why is it that most gay men have a different sound to their voice? Sometimes they carry a lisp, or accentuate certain words, I'm not sure I would call it an accent, so much as a certain vernacular. Anyone care to shed light on this?
my theory is that it is part cultural and part biological.
the cultural part is obvious, you pick things up either by a conscious decision to talk that way, or just by being around other people who talk that way.
the biological part is probably controversial. i believe that testosterone plays a huge role in sexual and gender development. I think there's a reason why gay men are typically smaller, have less hair, have higher voices, and I wouldn't be surprised if lower testosterone in men was correlated with homosexuality.
my theory is that it is part cultural and part biological.
the cultural part is obvious, you pick things up either by a conscious decision to talk that way, or just by being around other people who talk that way.
the biological part is probably controversial. i believe that testosterone plays a huge role in sexual and gender development. I think there's a reason why gay men are typically smaller, have less hair, have higher voices, and I wouldn't be surprised if lower testosterone in men was correlated with homosexuality.
And what of the gay men who are large body builders? They are not that uncommon a type either.
Lastly, there are many gay men who show no signs of being gay. They dress normally, they speak normally, they don't make gay gestures, you would never know unless they told you.
And what of the gay men who are large body builders?
Correlation is not causation, you see.
That low-testosterone may be correlated with homosexuality does not mean that low-testosterone is the cause of homosexuality.
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Lastly, there are many gay men who show no signs of being gay. They dress normally, they speak normally, they don't make gay gestures, you would never know unless they told you.
"Many" is not a number. "Signs of being gay" is not quantifiable. All of this is speculation, both my comments and yours.
Lastly, there are many gay men who show no signs of being gay. They dress normally, they speak normally, they don't make gay gestures, you would never know unless they told you.
I think this is an important point, because those who DON'T speak with an "inflection" wouldn't be on your radar. So while it might seem like most DO have that manner of speech, how do you know when they don't? Hmmmm.
Other than that, I think the above answer of "part cultural and part biological" is probably accurate. I think some adopt the inflection, while others are just naturally born with those qualities in their voices.
Why is it that most gay men have a different sound to their voice? Sometimes they carry a lisp, or accentuate certain words, I'm not sure I would call it an accent, so much as a certain vernacular. Anyone care to shed light on this?
It is just one of the symptoms of this mental defect,
It is just one of the symptoms of this mental defect,
My dad was gay (or had a mental defect, according to some... ) but actually had a Malboro Man type of appearance and persona and Texas drawl right down to the Stetson and boots and nobody, ever, would have figured him for gay in any way.
There are actually many gay people (straight-appearing gay men and femme lesbians) who fly completely under the radar. So in part, confirmation bias: most of us do not recognise all the "under cover" gay people in our lives that don't "talk" or "appear" gay because we don't even notice them.
We do tend to notice the femme men with lisps, or the butch dykes who play rugby or whatever, because I think a: some people are, as people everywhere do, falling into expected cultural patterns.
If there was actually some biological/physical reason why, say, some gay men speak with certain inflections and/or be hair dressers, or some lesbians are more likely to play rugby or be cops, then would that not be yet one more data point indicating that people don't choose their sexual orientation, but are born to it?
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or whatever, because I think a: some people are, as people everywhere do, falling into expected cultural patterns.