LOLOL "manly speaker"

Kathleen Jamieson's article, "Eloquence in an Electric Age" talks about a topic that I have always found incredibly interesting: Gendered writing. She states, "Because it was presumably driven by emotion, womanly speech was thought to be. personal, excessive, disorganized, and unduly ornamental. Because it was presumably driven by reason, the manly style was thought to be factual, analytic, organized, and impersonal" (801). This creates an interesting dynamic between how ethos, pathos, and logos relate differently to each men and women. If men are factual and impersonal, then it must be hard to cover pathos. On the other hand, if women are too personal, then they may have a difficult time covering logos. I also found it hilarious that she  quoted Max Atkinson as saying "High pitched vocalizations tend to be strongly associated with emotional or irrational outbursts, a deeply rooted cultural assumption that no doubt derives from, and is sustained by, the screams of each new generation of infants"(803). Therefore, naturally, women are much less credible because we just sound like crying babies. Yeah. Ok. I mean, I get where these horribly sexist ideas would come from as for women, in history, have always been treated as a child whom needs protection. But the ideas are still ridiculous.