And yet, maybe after I was simply confronted with the possibility of Jessie’s demise, I developed a new kindness for her. Jessie does not pretend to be an ideal woman; She has less to do with the imperfectly perfect Alexa than the deep, resonant and pompous of the voice of authority, which Laurie Anderson cultivated in a speech that appeared in her innovative music at the age of 80. (There is an unknown pontifier, perhaps a retirement geology teacher to direct Anderson: “There are some things that you can simply find, such as Greenland’s size, the data of the famous 19th century rubber wars, Persian adjectives, snow composition.” Jessie could be heard as sending, also artificially, some stereotype of the Featherbrained woman. They both play with technology to report themselves as apparently false.
In fact, Jessie gives me over the many other female voices created by the current media: one typical female voice of the Japanese anime is so worrying that it will physically captivate me – tall, young, whispering and Faltinul, yet somehow sexualized. More mad is the voice of wildly popular internet tradition, who is soft, calm and gentle when it separates wheat from the chaff, while her children – dazed on Benadryl? Do you perform with harassment, trained for death? – Play softly with the shin from the camera. Former Christian fundamentalist wife and mother Tia LEVINGS built a considerable watching on Tiktoku, who spoke, among other things, about her former “fundie voice” -submissive tone, brass and high-ranking, partly acquired from 1963 tips called 1963 entitled 1963; Meanwhile, another new generation of women is learning how to cultivate the same voice from the rise of videos that emphasize it against images in soft light.
If the porn digital age is distorted as many sociologists are afraid, the feeling of the ideal sex life, the ubiquity of the narrated media in their lives can also distort their idea of how the female voice is to sound – which is another way to say how women should be in the world. AI is likely to learn from the real female voices, perhaps even those with the most followers, and create potentially dizzying feedback on female sketches rather than roar.
As a mother of two teenage boys, I used to hear the noise coming from the basement, some epic anime struggle, the helpless female voices compete with the sound of local news that I tried to concentrate on (because I made my own gender match and prepared dinner). But when I didn’t hear it, I was bombarded by the sound of one son who shouted loudly at his computer in the middle of the Fortnite battle. I consider it fascinating that my son, like many serious Fortnite players, chose what is called female leather for her avatar in the game. This means that since he was about 11 years old, he spent countless hours identifying incredibly narrowly with a female figure who represents him at his strongest: shooting, escape, outfoxing. Perhaps he chose female skin or avatar, so young, because the older players he admired also did, and maybe they chose female skin because they are without face – the game means staring for hours on the back of the avatar (which is in some female leather, which is noticeably around and decorated). But I was also hit by another aspect of his Fortnite Avatar, true for her and all her peers: never, in all years when she plays the game, she spoke as much as the word.
These avatars are remote cousins of women on Tiktoku who rely on Jessia, I could say: The score of influencers who choose Jessie’s narrative for their videos will also decide to silence technology. The key aspect of their humanity is completely missing, and only their beautiful young faces stand for permanent representation of themselves in front of their thousands of followers.
But I turn it again in my mind and I land somewhere else. Perhaps when choosing Jessie, they will find a way to protect themselves, with a gentle claim of power: with their voices maintained private, only so many of them can have the world. Jessie may be annoying, but obviously does not care, which could be why so many women accept it for their endless videos “Prepare with me” – just as they are preparing for a male look, they clarify the male ear that they are not completely packed for consumption. Jessie is loud and proud; It is a pill, so it is completely artificial that it is transcendental – completely over the search for male consent.
