I am very keyed into my speech patterns and mannerisms. Today’s youth babble incoherently as their speech patterns take on a lazy mumble in order to fill the air with nonsense to prevent that “awkward silence.”
Our children have been taught not to think critically but to attempt to sound smart. An astute listener will realize how inept our children have become when it comes to verbal communication, and I believe that’s a big reason they see Obama as some great orator while history shows he’s one of the least orally-skilled presidents we’ve ever had.
Serious question:
If a guy has a natural-born effeminate voice, how difficult is it for him to change it, if he wants to?
Anyone ever dealt with this issue, either first, second or third hand?
What do you expect when our drinking water is now contaminated with birth control drugs, something not mentioned by the EPA as they regulate everything else under the sun?
To avoid this, men should drink nothing but beer.
As for the men, they do what they learn. There are TOO many boys growing up mostly fatherless. From whom do they learn to be a man? All they have as role models are women, many of them angry at men. Read that as women blaming men for their not being happy.
Fathers are SO important. They teach boys how to deal with adult male authority and they teach girls how to deal with men. Black boys need fathers even more as they teach their sons how to deal with adult WHITE male authority.
Choices.
Yep. I shake my head when I hear “my wife wont’ let...”. Isn’t it called marriage? You have no say in what your kid does in life? The commercials and sitcoms of the stupid, useless white father have seeped into our collective consciousness.
I cannot stand that affectation in girls (real women do not talk that way) and if I was conversing with a man who did it I'd be sorely tempted to give him a bitch slap.
Anyone over 35 does not speak that way, regardless of gender.
HGTV highly gay tv. All gay, all the time.
My theory is, that after decades of women taking hormones for birth control, they ‘flooded’ their bodies with the stuff and the male children born to them were exposed to an over abundance of these hormones, thus giving them more female characteristics than past generations of males. ???
I am amazed at how small teenage boys are. Back in the 80s half of us were in the gym throwing the iron around. Granted, the family docs were helping out with “supplements”, but that was maybe 10% of us. What do teenage girls see in long haired, skinny armed, lightweights ?
Oh my gosh....
Oh, like I totally hate that? You know, where every declarative sentence is really a question? Like, the speaker is insecure about making an assertion so qualifies it with the insecure vocal uplift? I see this in young men now, and I used to hate it in women.
....as if.....
No surprise at all from a society that thinks it’s okay to start 90% of their sentences with “Well, I mean .....”
OHMIGOSH !
"You talk like a fag and your s---'s all retarded."
We live in the hoosier state but at a restaurant the other day a couple of college girls sat across from us and I swear every other word was “you know” or “oh my god”. I mean they laced their conservation with this constantly. It is like a speech impediment.
I felt I was at a showing of Valley Girls.
It’s an almost universal affection amongst Canadians.
"I know, right?"
I wanna punch him in the face,