The Voice

Somewhere I thought someone told me that Calvin (or Luther?) had a problem with women preachers because their voices weren't loud enough....

...I found another blog (railing against female pastors, btw) which offered an audio version in either a male or female voice. I wonder why? Were males only supposed to listen to one while females listened to the other?

(from RevGalBlogPals) I have been getting slammed by my male coworker who tells me to do things that are not possible for a female voice to do - such as - more of a vocal range in pitch (hello - I'm female. I can't do low and gravelly and if I go too high, I sound shrill.)

(a comment on the same blog) Women create emphasis in different ways. I had a terrific speech professor in college who taught me that women can create emphasis by being softer instead of louder or intentionally speaking slower instead of faster. When you speak more softly, you can build back to "normal" and it is heard as if you were getting louder. The same professor talked about body movements and how we "hear" postures differently from men and women.