And in the case of Kristen Chenowith, it’s not an affectation. First of all, she’s tiny so it’s believable, and second of all that woman is not passive and mousy, rather the opposite. She’s very assertive (not in an asshole way or anything, just the opposite of passive I guess). See this clip:
She has that kind of voice but absolutely none of the attitude that you see from the likes of Katie Britt or Kelly Johnson. To me, that’s the biggest sign that it’s a natural voice and not an act (or something taught/brainwashed into a person).
If you just use ‘quote=“arlo_guthrie”’ inside the square brackets (replacing whoever was there and potentially dropping the post: and topic: tags (if appropropriate)
Or I could do what I just actually did: which is to make a page with a note of it in the Straight Dope folder on the computer on which I generally browse the boards.
I don’t actually think Britt’s audience was American women, MAGA or otherwise. I think her target was MAGA and otherwise misogynist men. Sure, having a woman speak at all is probably about appealing to women, but I think her delivery was more about reassuring men that these women would still be submissive.
Britt is the first female senator from Alabama. I would imagine that she has played this game before. I suspect that she saw doing the SOTU response primarily as a way to move up in the Republican party, and was playing to that. She might have even been playing to be Trump’s VP, since she’s apparently on the short list.
I think she neglected to consider how others would see it, and that this would also be important to her ambitions. She went far enough to become a laughing stock. A more experienced politician would try to thread the needle.
I thought someone said their were links to her normal voice… or rather when she isn’t trying to use the “Reverend Mother Phlemmy GuessYourShit” voice…?
Somehow I just can’t see her using this voice when she’s picking up the dry cleaning.
