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And in eight U.S. presidential elections between 1960 and 2000, the candidate with the deeper voice has won the popular vote.
huh?
1960 nixon had the deeper voice
1976 ford had the deeper voice
1988 dukakis had the deeper voice. love him or hate him but you have to admit that ghw bush has a voice that can beach dolphins.
1996 bob dole had the deeper voice.
If you have a problem with that, I deeply question your dedication to the American free market system and, therefore, freedom, decency and God. The market has spoken. Freedom.
1. "The Market" is not God and its outcomes are often unwise, impractical, harmful, and even morally wrong (not that the GPS lady is morally wrong).
2. The ubiquity of female voices in the media is not a market thing, but an ideological thing. Yes, businesses can and do buck The Market in their behaviors. Believe it or not, powerful business executives have non-Market influences in their lives which also shape their decisions.
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I love women. Truly, I do, especially their womanliness.
But if I never hear another female voice on radio or television for as long as I live, apart from singing something sweet, I will die a happy man. Sometime in the last ten years women began to take over the media, and now their voices are completely dominant. BBC is the worst offender. And please get the little lady out of my GPS.
Anyone who has spent time in a normal family with children, or even around normal families with children, knows that children respond to their father's voice much differently than they respond to the voice of their mother. This is true from the earliest weeks of life outside the womb. The father's voice carries authority and gravitas, inspires trust, demands respect.
Advertisers and the news media have long found this to be true as well. Until feminism turned media executives into social engineers, male voices were long dominant when authoritative persuasion was the goal. It is known that women, even more than men, respond more positively to the authority of a male voice - particularly a deep male voice.
"For nearly every attribute they were asked to rate, participants were significantly more likely to prefer the deeper voice. The only category in which higher voices won? Most Likely to Be Involved in a Government Scandal. (This was, notably, the only negative attribute for which the researchers tested.)In the preface to their study, the researchers noted that the scientific evidence has often favored basses to tenors. Previous studies have found that both men and women find men with deeper voices more attractive and more dominant. And in eight U.S. presidential elections between 1960 and 2000, the candidate with the deeper voice has won the popular vote.In the current study, participants were also asked which version of the voice they would vote for, both in peacetime and wartime. The baritones were the winners. Voters should take this bias into account when they’re in the booth, the authors suggest."
Things started going downhill in this country when male singers started deliberately sounding like women. From Neil Sedaka to the Beach Boys to Michael Jackson, there's definitely something diabolical going on. In "The Passion of the Christ", the devil was portrayed as wickedly androgynous - a profound insight.
My GPS has a function whereby you can change the voice to male or female or OFF.
It used to drive me up a wall to deliberately avoid watching "The View" only to have some nightly news program play clips from it. Doesn't matter if it's the lib women or the conservative woman, or if they are talking about politics or the weather, they all sounded like chickens in the chicken coop to me (and yes I have been around chicken coops). I had to change the channel.
Over the past month or so you've come up with some... ... intriguing topics to share with us, the C-D population.
This, is without doubt, another magnificent espousal.
I think this might be my favorite one. Most of his have been par for the course with regards to his type of thinking. Never before have I heard someone complain about GPS units that use a womanly voice.
e: I'm kind of baked right now and the responses in this thread have had me cracking up for ages
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1. "The Market" is not God and its outcomes are often unwise, impractical, harmful, and even morally wrong (not that the GPS lady is morally wrong).
Since you seem to believe you have the inside line on morality, I'm still waiting to hear just who/what you believe determines whether a religion is a 'true' or a 'false' (as you have alleged about Mormonism) one?
I think most women are very happy to keep their distance from the OP as much as possible. In fact I think all females everywhere should agree to stay away him including all girl babies, children, teens and any female animals.
I love women. Truly, I do, especially their womanliness.
But if I never hear another female voice on radio or television for as long as I live, apart from singing something sweet, I will die a happy man. Sometime in the last ten years women began to take over the media, and now their voices are completely dominant. BBC is the worst offender. And please get the little lady out of my GPS.
You're in luck now, you can get Bert, Ernie, Cookie Monster, Yoda, or Darth Vader voices for your Garmin GPS
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... intriguing topics to share with us, the C-D population.
