Please help them- vocal fry and other epidemics (by my friend @mjeantaylor)

A few months ago, I got a complaint from a listener who wrote into the radio station I work for. He had a lot to say about the voices of a few young female DJ's. This got me thinking about professionalism, and the different ways people speak. Why do we find certain vocal trends annoying? Why do these vocal trends change, but the people who are criticized for them stay the same?

My friend Madeline Taylor created an amazing podcast episode about judging people's intelligence by the way they speak. She interviewed a bunch of amazing humans and even included a little bit of a conversation she had with me. Do you get judged for the way you speak/sing/present yourself? Let me know on insta or twitter. Thank you Madeline for your hard work and f all the boyfriends who tell their girlfriends to stop saying like and that their voice in too high pitched or that they just "don't like female vocalists because of the way their voices sound!" (That last one was my first boyfriend. Gross.)