Subject: Re: (a woman's attention-getting voice) (was speech-level singing)
From: Jessica
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on 2/3/00 11:55 AM, Lloyd W. Hanson at Lloyd.Hanson-at-NAU.EDU wrote:
> Thank your for you delightful description of how necessary it is for
> women to use a voice that we recognize as one of authority when
> requesting assistance. It is true that we have an innate ability to
> shut out that wonderful, natural female sound in almost all matters
> of life unless it is coaxing us toward the consummation of a
> relationship.

This is getting off-subject, but I want to share this story about male -
female communication:

A friend of my father's, a minister, no less, had convinced his wife that
her voice was somehow on a frequency he had difficulty hearing. Often, when
he was in his study and she called his name, he would simply ignore her.
Later, if she was upset about it, he apologized sweetly and said he couldn't
help it if her voice was on his "deaf frequency". True story, and she
bought it!! I, for one, did not, even as a little kid.

anyway... back to regularly scheduled programming.

Jessica