Holmes, at one point the youngest self-made female billionaire in the U.S. before being charged with nine counts of fraud, has . . . an unusual way of speaking
Decent people, as a rule, do not comment upon traits that are beyond other people’s control. Height, nose, gait – all off limits.
“Elizabeth Holmes’s Fake Voice Is Actually Just ‘Stupid Man’ Voice,” postulated a writer from Jezebel, who pointed out that Holmes sounded like a Saturday Night Live cast member doing a skit about a moron. “Inside Edition” ran a segment on her voice. The Cut published a deep analysis into whether this could possibly be how Holmes actually talked and determined it couldn’t.
Holmes is an alleged fraud and scam artist who, if she’s found guilty of even half the charges against her, deserves a lot of prison time. But faking a voice? Let’s talk about that. Of course, there was a reason young women used uptalk, as linguists would later point out. It’s not only a more inclusive, inviting speaking style, it’s also a reaction and counter-response to another frequent charge levied against women: She’s yelling at me. Of course, there was a reason young women might employ vocal fry. Making your voice guttural is the opposite of making it breathy, and breathy women’s voices are also viewed as wrong – childlike and insubstantial.
Here’s another way of putting it: The 2020 field of presidential candidates has given us a wealth of female voices. So if you don’t like Kamala Harris’s voice, and you don’t like Elizabeth Warren’s, and you don’t like Kirsten Gillibrand’s, and you don’t like Amy Klobuchar’s – and if you’re observant enough to realize that none of them have voices that are at all similar to each other – then maybe it’s not their voices you have a problem with.
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