• dexa_scantron@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Another example: all sound recording and amplification technology was developed to make white men sound good. So all audio equipment makes masculine voices sound better than feminine ones.

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      8 months ago

      True! It wasn’t until recently that female singers became popular enough to warrant better audio engineering for their voices. And even so, much of the pro-sumer hardware, and all of the casual consumer mics (like gaming headsets) is geared towards the existing customer demographic majority: white men