Spry Lorax
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This is the truth. See also: The Ship's computer's voice on Star Trek. I actually make it a point to go in to any voice assistant (including the voice navigation in my car) and change the default to a male voice whenever possible.

Sexism shouldn't be the default.
01:21 AM - Sep 29, 2023
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Yorick
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In response to Spry Lorax.
That's weird to me. Most of the important/influential authority figures in my life have been women.
10:30 PM - Sep 29, 2023
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Dad For Ever
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In response to Spry Lorax.
They'd need to create a decent neutral voice.

Most of the neutral voices sound too synthetic.
05:32 AM - Sep 29, 2023
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Happy Dem
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In response to Spry Lorax.
Misogyny is a cultural universal, which is very rare. It's extraordinary really. I wonder if this is bec women are the 1st ppl we communicate with. They're the 1st to tell us NO. Somewhere in our pre-verbal brain we remember this shock of the power of the other.
02:52 AM - Sep 29, 2023
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Arik Absurd
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In response to Spry Lorax.
It especially doesn't help when you consider that Majel Barrett eventually married Gene Roddenberry
01:32 AM - Sep 29, 2023
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