I was in a restaurant a few days ago and had the misfortune of sitting next to a table with a young woman whose voice I hated--flat, unemotional, uninflected, self-involved, self-centered. My wife thought it was a New York thing but my daughter agreed with me that the voice is now absolutely standard. There are, of course, variations. My wife was watching The Bachelor last night, and I listened for a few minutes. It seemed to me the voices of the women were somewhat coarser and less smug, but otherwise generally similar.E either way, the effect is (among other things) extremely anti-erotic.