“Then She Was Like…”

What strikes me as incredibly funny is the fact that everybody (and I mean everybody) has his or her own imitation of the female voice. It’s amusing to hear the way men mimic the women in their lives. Almost invariably, they’ll contort their faces and speak in the most exaggerated, high-pitched, and antagonistic screech imaginable. What’s even funnier, though, is when females do it. After all, women naturally have higher voices. And yet, many a woman that I’ve come across will alter her voice in much the same fashion when quoting another female. It’s all so gratuitous and subversive and sarcastic, which is what makes it so funny to me. Underneath the exaggeration and the unintentional humor resides a certain amount of hostility and resentment that most of the girls being lampooned may never get to hear about because all of the frustration that they inspire is being bitched about while their backs are turned. If you overthink it, the whole situation starts seeming a little sad. Well, so be it. Inappropriate or not, I choose to keep on laughing.