Female Voices

Eden Faithful considers the primarily feminine voices employed in artificial intelligence as reinforcing cultural subservience.

Faithful's criticism reminds me of the description of a household robot from a 1956 science fiction novel:

"That's why we called the monster 'Hired Girl' -- it brought back thoughts of the semi-slave immigrant girl who Grandma used to bully."

Heinlein, Robert A. (1956). The Door Into Summer. Fantasy and Science Fiction, 11(4), p. 17.

-DD