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i mean "average man". the modulated example sounded a lot like the stereotypical "gay voice", how is that observation worrisome? since that voice is intentionally not like a regular man i don't see how it's problematic.

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Stereotypical gay voice is unintentional mostly and not reliable to predict sexual orientation.[1] Typical is the most neutral word for what you meant probably.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/07/28/what-...

Gay people are normal.

What definition of normal do you operate on? Surely it’s a minority of people, compared to the number of people who do not identify as gay. In sociology this is called social deviance, a feature of human variation

Men are a minority of people. Being gay is more common than having green eyes. Social norms where most HN commenters live allow both. Social deviance means breaking social norms not being in a minority.

sure, not disputing that, i was using it as a synonym for "typical" or "common". that's a pretty common use of the word btw, google says it means "conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected"

i also wasn't talking about gay people in general, only gay people who use the stereotypical voice which is a pretty small fraction of them. i think you're reading too much into nitpicking that word instead of the other three paragraphs.

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