re: #238 makeitstop

No, I think it’s very deliberate. There’s a video of Kim Kardashian doing it, and you can tell she does it on purpose.

The thing I don’t get - people associate vocal fry with being successful and intelligent. I. Do. Not. Fucking. Get. It.

I think they are imitating one another. And yes, it supposedly connotes intelligence and seriousness, and early on its prevalence women adopted it to add “weight” to their speech. Now, men are doing it, too.