Reaction of women's hormone level to vibes in male voices

Now wait. This is a sport's blog, remember?

So what has this to do with sport????

Well i will come to that later. Looking up my notes (the one i made about some 30 minutes ago, to be exact) i saw that after my own personal experience in the last 2 days, i wanted to make a research on that. Always good to turn experience into knowledge. You never know what it might be good for.

After skimming several articles and forum posts, i found out about the following interesting aspects ( i'm adding sources at the bottom of this post, don't want to be sued for plagiarism):

- When a woman and a man out on a first date make small talk, their “antenna” for sex appeal isn’t focused on what the person is saying, but on how they’re saying it.

- Women prefer deeper, more masculine voices. The pitch of the man’s voice is also related to how much testosterone the man had at puberty; women pick up on these testosterone cues on a subconscious level. 

- The males of other species develop deep voices to attract women and to intimidate other men. It is possible the human male voice developed for the same reasons.

 [Just for the record, not really important for my view on things: after giving birth, women prefer men with higher voices around them. They aren't ready for another encounter- yet.]

If you're a man, you might be interested to read this, from a woman's posting in a body-builder forum:

'I don't care so much how the guy looks- just have a deep, vibrating voice, turn out the lights and i'm ready!' Now really...

- Guys will be delighted to know that there are bloke-centric websites with discussion forums for voice improvement and how effectively they can be used to attract members of the opposite sex. "A man with a low-octave baritone only has to speak one line to draw my attention. With a fine accent, it can sound very sexy," says Pallavi, a student of art.

Men are definitely having it too easy. All you need is to develop a low bariton and women will come and lie at your feet??? Thats just not fair, come on.

Well, draw your own conclusions. I'm certain its not the only thing. If you are a guy and have a voice like a mouse on a bad day, get rich. That helps too.

Well, back to the question of what this has to do with sport. It has actually, with Tennis, precisely. For two days in a row i received what i would call 'an overdose of  pheromones through voice'. In other words, i didn't have to sniff on the guy to feel 'high'. I just listened.

For quite some time, i have asked myself how some man's voice over the TV (or livestream) can make half of the women listening faint and the other half wanting to have a child from the guy. Or the other way round. Or both. Or whatever. Not that the man in question is not attractive- but that is not what the girls in the forums are talking about. Only the voice. I'm beginning to understand.

If you are a woman- to you, this man's voice says: 'get ready'. Well it actually uses another word, but since i don't know if you are over 18....well i suppose you get the idea. And what he is really saying are just numbers. Yes, numbers. And we women can become the victim of such a voice faster than you can say supercalifragilisticexpiallydocious (hello Mary Poppins, btw). What can we do??

I have a bad message for you, girls. Nothing. This is something out of our control. To know about something doesn't automatically give you a choice. Its a hormone thing, and you can't escape. Should you ever fall for a guy who is treating you badly, has a notebook with girls names as thick as an encyclopedia and hates his mother just because he has a 'low bariton'....well at least you will know why.

To come to an end, i would like to present an example of the 'low bariton'. Just to make myself clear, i cannot be held responsible for possible female reactions like fainting, tearing clothes off, or running to the next store buying a kilo of chocolate ruining the diet.

Some of my sources for the research:

http://www.kaobie.com/2010/06/deep-male-voice-strong-attraction/
http://nikadon.com/women-prefer-men-with-deeper-voices/
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-09-08/man-woman/28272550_1_voice-body-language-singers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/articles/lifecycle/teenagers/voice.shtml

The rat experiment

Today an interview was published with Lewis Hamilton, blaiming some 'personal problems' for his mediocre performance last season.

I can't help but remember that hilarious article about Martin Whitmarsh calling Hamilton an 'experiment'. Its here, in case not everyone has seen it:

http://www.crash.net/f1/news/158448/1/mclaren_experiment_made_hamilton_who_he_is_now.html


So, since i read this, when i see Hamilton i always imagine a rat trying to find its way through the labyrinth.

Maybe the labyrinth is quite approbiate. Trying to find his way through the labyrinth of life. Maybe the main problem of Mr. Hamilton is Mr. Hamilton.

Ask any psychologist and he will tell you the personality is being formed in the early childhood and adolescence. Now, how can one develop a personality if he is being raised as an experiment??

The question is: was the 'experiment' successful?

If you ask Ron Dennis, for sure. He will love his creation aside from some little flaws: 2008 Australia: Hamilton won the race and when RD gratulated him and at one moment trying to take a coke bottle out of his hands ('YOU DON'T DRINK THAT STUFF DUDE NOT IN FRONT OF A CAMERA') Hamilton almost knocked him out. And it wasn't a joke. The boy looked dead serious, and RD backed off quickly. He better.

'When you raise crows, one day they will hack out your eyes.'

Anyway, he won the title in 2008 (how is debatable) so for RD yes, it must have been successful. I'm not so sure about Whitmarsh. Would he call it a success?

Would you like to learn that you have been raised as an 'experiment'? Isn't that a bit like finding out (waving to Arnold Schwarzenegger) that you are a clone?

Not any better than to find out that in the end, you are nothing but....

'Grumpy' Fernando

Thats 'grumpy Alonso' for you, Mr. Allen. Maybe if you weren't a british journalist with your head deep in some british driver's you know what, he would smile to you, too.

Fernando smiles, and the world smiles with him.

Have a look...a happy, relaxed, charming Fernando. Does Mr. Allen even know this guy? I really doubt it....

I left quite a grumpy comment on Mr. Allen's blog. If he calls me grumpy, he would have a reason. I mean, i can be really, really grumpy. I also tend to shake my fist at people. My bad luck that there is never a tv camera around.

One day i met two spanish guys in a train. I told them i'm a die-hard fan of Fernando and what a great guy he must be, charming smile and all. They looked at me as if i had gone mad. One said: "But we thought he is really grumpy all the time". I asked them how they got that oppinion and they said they read it in the press. Excuse me????

I told them 'no he is not. He is sweet. He flirts with the ladies.' They kept looking at me as if i had gone mad. They just didn't believe me. They read it in the press, you know.

So, is Fernando grumpy or not?

When you are a british journalist- sure.
When you are a german journalist- depends. When your name is Kai Ebel, probably.
When your name is Petrov- 'THOU SHALT NOT INTERFERE WITH THE CHAMPIONSHIP WHEN YOU HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT'

 For all others- take a look at the video.


Thats Fernando for you.

The year is coming to an end...

and i decided to create a blog.

Probably a bad idea. The internet is full of sport blogs. My personal preference is motorsports and tennis, so i might concentrate on those two most of the time.

Over the years i detected that by swimming against the tide (and being a fan of the 'villains' in sport) you can make a lot of enemies. But i'm not only a natural sceptic, very susperstitious (i firmly believe in Murphy's notebook) and overcritical in general, i also love conspiracy theories. I can promise to be at least entertaining. Wether you like it or not.

I know there is no way to become as popular as James Allen, Peter Bodo or Steve Tignor. Or even Turrini, though his main fault is that he is only blogging in italian. He should try english for all the crap he produces on a daily basis. Brits love that kind of stuff.

I still have to find out how this thing works, all comments will be welcome (flame me, insult me, give me animal names, take away my credit card), all blogs will be more or less provocating.

Oh and call me Sherlock. I seriously think i should have become a private eye. Maybe even a spy. I was born too late for a career as a double agent!