So how come the men on NPR get to talk like grownups, while the women....

[LAS14]

.... like Mary Louise Kelly and Elsa Chang (and a number of others) have to talk like nursery school teachers trying to get a three year old to get excited about cookies after nap time?

[SharonClark]

1. Elsa Change has a lovely voice and Mary Louise Kelly's voice is unique.

I'm curious to know what man you want them to sound like.

[LAS14]

6. I want them to stop talking like they're talking to toddlers. With that simpering up tick. nt

[Igel]

2. I figure they talk the way that they either want to or think they should.

Can't really imagine that there's some man standing over them, "Sorry, your voice isn't soothing enough, it may upset some misogynists."

[brooklynite]

3. Why do people commenting on media programs assume everyone watches/listens to the same thing?

I have no idea what this refers to.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. Sometimes people think it's specific women when it's really that they hear all women as preschool

teachers, unless the women make an effort to sound firm and authoritative, at which point the radio station gets letters about women who sound mean and unpleasant, and also like preschool teachers.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

5. I find both of these NPR reporters to be very fine journalists and I like their radio voices.

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Here are a couple of random stories from the NPR website:

Mary Louise Kelly
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/14/1129223029/how-protests-in-iran-are-similar-to-the-constitutional-revolution-of-1906

Elsa Chang
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/19/979340058/biden-and-harris-have-traveled-to-atlanta-to-meet-with-asian-american-leaders