And yet, perhaps, after I am simply confronted with the possibility of Jessie’s downfall, I have developed a new preference for her. Jessie does not pretend to be the ideal woman; She has less in common with the imperfect perfect Alexa than she put the deep, resonating and pompous of authority that Laurie Anderson cultivated in the speech that came to the fore in the 1980s. (Here is an unknown pontificator, perhaps a retired geology teacher, channeled by Anderson: “There are some things that you can simply look up, such as the size of Greenland, the data of the famous 19th -century rubber wars, Persian adjectives, the composition of snow.” Both play with technology to announce themselves as a clear fake.
Give me Jessie in fact about many of the other female voices that contemporary media have produced: a typical female voice of Japanese anime is so disturbing that it makes me physically nauseous – high, young, whisper and querulous, but somehow sexualized. More crazy is the voice of the wildly popular Internet Tradwife, which is soft, calm and gentle when she separates wheat from chaff while her children – drugged on an opprylicl? Performance with docility, trained on the pain of death? – Play quietly with sticks from the camera. A former Christian fundamentalist woman and mother, Tia Levings, built up a significant supporters on Tiktok, among other things, among other things, her former “fund voice”-a submissive tone, breathtaking and highly awakened, partly from tips in a book from 1963 called “fascinating femininity”-who left behind the church; In the meantime, another new generation of women learns how to cultivate the same voice from the rise of videos that emphasize against images in soft light.
If the porn of the digital era is deformed, as many sociologists are worried, the feeling of young people what an ideal sex life looks like, the ubiquity of told media in their lives may also have distorted their idea of how the female voice is supposed to sound – what a different way to say they can be in the world. AI is likely to learn from the voices of those real women, perhaps even those with the most followers, creating a potentially dizzying feedback job of female mutter instead of roar.
As the mother of two teenage boys, I got used to hearing the noise from the basement, from an epic anime struggle, those helpless female voices that competed with the sound of the local news I tried to concentrate (while performing my own sex conformity, making dinner. But when I didn’t hear that, I was bombed with the sound of a son who loudly shouted his computer in the middle of a Fortnite struggle. I find it fascinating that my son, like many serious Fortnite players, has chosen what is called female skin for his avatar in the game. This means that from the moment he was perhaps 11, he spent countless hours with the incredibly closely linked to a female character who represents him in his most powerful: shooting, creating, outfit. Perhaps he chose a female skin, or avatar, at such a young age because the older gamers he admired also did, and perhaps they chose female skins because they are faceless – the game means that you are staring for hours to the back of that avatar (which, in the case of some female skins, is noticeably round and set). But I was also struck by another facet of his Fortnite Avatar, where for her and all her colleagues: she never pronounced as much as a word in all those years that he played the game.
Those avatars are remote from the women who trust Jessie, I could say: the dozens of influencers who choose Jessie’s story for their videos are, when using technology, also the choice to silence themselves. A crucial aspect of their humanity is completely absent, with only their beautiful young faces the lasting representation of themselves for their thousands of followers.
But I turn it back into my mind and I land somewhere else. Perhaps when choosing Jessie they find a way to protect themselves, to make a subtle claim of power: with their voices kept private, the world can only have so many of them. Jessie may be annoying, but she apparently doesn’t care, which is perhaps the reason why so many women embrace her for their endless videos “go me with me” – just as they primarily prelude themselves for the male gaze, they make the male ear clear that they are not completely packaged for consumption. Jessie is loud and proud; She is a pill, so completely artificial that she is transcendent – completely above the search for male approval.