Why do guys always talk in baby voices to their girlfriends?

The BBQ Pit
1

God, it pisses me off!! And the worst part about it is that I do it too! I just got of the phone with her and I feel like I’ve had a conversation with a three-year-old!!!

Shit! What the hell is wrong with me??? That phone rings and suddenly my voice goes up about ten octaves and I’m making little cooing sounds! What an incredible pussy!

But it’s not just me… This guy who works behind me in the sports department sounds like he’s rocking an infant to sleep every time his wife calls… Then another guy just giggles in a girl’s voice when he’s yakking with his fiancee… I mean ** what the fuck!**

2

Hmm. Interesting question. I’ve always been able to talk to my SO as an adult. In public at least–some pet names lend themselves to goofy pronounciations.

3

Actually, you know damn well that is our REAL voice. The phony one is the “look-at-me-being-a-grownup” voice we use the rest of the time…

4

You just answered your own question, man.

5

allright… left myself open, I know…

It doesn’t change the fact that I am one cooing, babbling idiot. But at least I got laid last night.

6

Uh, you just got in touch with your feminine side? You suddenly feel free to feel?

You’re at a loss for anything more apt to say? ::picture Alex Karras blushing, "Mongo straight!!::?

You’re (plural) facistic male oppressors who cannot relate to underlings save through juvenile lingo?

Or…nuthin’ else you’ll say will make much more sense, so why not?

Discuss.

Ouch! Okay, so gender relations baffle us all. So quit throwin’ brick fragments already.

Slouching away, grumping,
Veb

7

Nudges his fellow male posters and winks
Women…

8

I don’t. But I’m fairly sure that if I did, she would never let me live it down. Ah well, we all have our soft spots.

Besides, if you gotta be whipped by something, I can’t think of nothing I’d rather be whipped by.

Reminds me of our last camping trip. One of the guys was growling about his girlfriend. But then he suddenly lightened up. In the next breath it was ‘honey’, just as she got within earshot. We all marvelled at such survival instincts.

9

I would have hung up the phone. Is your woman under the age of 16? Christ in a side car but I never, even at that age, wanted my man to speak to me as if I were a child.

I guess it’s your woman’s taste and what drives her wild but the mimicked voice of my father doesn’t do it for me. You might want to get some professional help but I find this faintly sickening… Oedipus, Electra… I know some women long for that “strong” man to dictate their life but if you don’t like it and she does I would suggest you seek your pleasure elsewhere.

Oh please, other adult women of the board, do any of you really want your man to babble at you in baby talk? Give me one woman on this board who delights in a man that treats her as no more than a babe in arms and I will shut my voice from further talk of this.