So if it's all about a woman's voice, why is it that men get credit for saying things online that women say repeatedly without acknowledgement (or worse, a hostile response)? Does male typing have more "base"?

It's because men are just so much more authoritative. It even comes across online.

Gud, that must be it. Good thought!

I see what you did there, Gud.

And Tom? I'm so glad you got seen!

:: loving on Gud ::

Your feel-good story of the day--the Route 29 Batman: [link]

I HAZ THE CODEINE!

Narcotics FTW! Begone, cough! Depart these lungs!

Well-done, Gud.

t nods to Jesse

DON'T YOU PEOPLE HEAR ME???

4 is way too small a sample because what if the female "professors" SUCKED?

At least it was four actors, presumably reading the same script?

Here's my cool thing of the day, a map of wind patterns over the continental US

That is wonderful.

The students perception of your intelligence is inversely related to how high your voice is.

Not just students. I think that's generally true. Relatedly, I've noticed I get taken much more seriously when I drop my voice an octave.

Because of the high pitch and the softness of a woman's voice, it makes them very difficult to understand unless they are right up in your face

Like a woman can't project? I mean, some women can't, or don't; I've known several women whose speaking voices were almost impossible to understand unless they were "right up in your face", but I think that's because our culture teaches women to speak softly, and some women seem to really take the lesson to heart. More than once I've said to a woman, come on, speak up, talk out loud! and they look at me like I've encouraged them to fart in church.

One of my friends from grad school has a really high voice -- like, Minnie Mouse quality -- and it usually took forever for her students to trust that she actually knew what she was talking about.

One of my coworkers M. also has a really high, child-like speaking voice. She's also a tiny woman who looks about 20. I know she has a hard time being taken seriously. One reason she likes her job is that we all treated her like a competent adult from day one. (And now I wonder if it matters that the team she joined is all women?)

Once I was at a brainstorming meeting, also attended by my boss and run by her boss, at which I was the junior staff. I said a Thing, and it passed without note. Two minutes later, the male manager sitting at my right said the exact same Thing. And everyone said, wow, Bill, good point! I could NOT believe that happened. Oh hell no. I said, Bill, I just said that exact same thing two minutes ago. There was silence, and then Boss Boss grinned and said, yeah, Bill, she did. And Bill had the grace to blush and keep his damn mouth shut. I think that incident contributed to my reputation at work.