# What's up with women and whispering? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 28, 2025, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-women-and-whispering/1022547 "2025-08-28T02:19:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EnolaStraight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@EnolaStraight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnolaStraight)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-women-and-whispering/1022547/1 "2025-08-28T02:19:46Z")
Observe this Tik-Tok/Tweet [Licorice.com](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/utfdgYPvDBo) I’ve seen commercials with women whispering. Is this supposed to be the new Cool Thing? ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-women-and-whispering/1022547/2 "2025-08-28T02:25:25Z")
I’d call it a gimmick to get you to turn up the volume and keep watching. That and a woman whispering is kind of a sexual marketing ploy. Just another attempt to get more clicks. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-women-and-whispering/1022547/3 "2025-08-28T02:29:46Z")
[ASMR](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASMR) ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-women-and-whispering/1022547/4 "2025-08-28T02:59:59Z")
Yup - before I clicked on it I thought “I bet this is an ASMR thing.” And that’s what it says right at the top of the video. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-women-and-whispering/1022547/5 "2025-08-28T03:01:39Z")
Good god, It just makes me irritated. I’ve always encountered it when someone’s selling a scam, so I associate it with that. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-women-and-whispering/1022547/6 "2025-08-28T03:10:34Z")
[1977: everything old is new](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3VFnj-pr0sk) ---
**Author:** ![EnolaStraight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@EnolaStraight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnolaStraight)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-women-and-whispering/1022547/7 "2025-08-28T03:14:09Z")
It annoys me. I don’t trust those who whisper a conversation at me. I remember in 2nd grade a girl whispered at me, I got closer, she whispered even quieter, i put my ear directly up to her lips… …and she spit in my ear.😡 ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-women-and-whispering/1022547/8 "2025-08-28T03:17:21Z")
Sure didn’t work on me. I only find it mildly annoying. But, if she gets the clicks I am sure she doesn’t care. I am only sad that this might actually work on anyone. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-women-and-whispering/1022547/9 "2025-08-28T16:13:31Z")
As I get older and more hard-of-hearing, I’ve told my wife she needs to start _shouting_ sweet nothings in my ear.