A hot topic has been how women talk, and more specifically, how females tend to resort to something called "vocal fry." I didn't understand what vocal fry was, so I Googled it. Vocal fry is a term for "the glottal, creaking sound of lower-register speech oscillation."

I still didn't understand, so I watched a video of Kourtney Kardashian speaking.

Then it made it made more sense.

The point is that vocal fry is real, and apparently it's another thing women need to change so we can be more like men. Among other speech errors, women also need to stop uptalking (the tendency to make your voice rise at the end of sentences so that it sounds more like a question) and using the words "like" and "um" in their sentences.

Well guess what? I like, like the way I talk.

Yes, sometimes my sentences sounds like questions.

It's not because I'm unsure of what I'm saying, but because it's not stupid to want another perspective.

Yes, sometimes I say "like" or "um" while I'm speaking.

Not because I don't know what I want to say, but because I AM THINKING.

And yes, sometimes I lower my voice register.

This is because I am shy, which isn't a "girl thing"—it's a human thing.

The only real problem with women and talking is women talking about one another. I'm not saying we need to throw the rules of grammar and rhetorical discourse to the wind, but tearing apart how women speak to propel women forward isn't progressive; it's moronic. So now when you're watching YouTube videos of women making fun of the way the Kardashians speak, you shouldn't hear the sound of vocal fry; you should hear sound of the sound of the female race shooting itself in the foot.

So can we like, all respect each other?