Female voice AI more popular with 35 and under age group

Although this article
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/female-voices-assistance-digital-audio-alexa-research-young-people-a8614401.html
makes this sound like a new trend, Cliff Nass, who was studying computer voices back in the 1980s and 1990s, always stated that female voices were preferred, except in Japan, where male voices were considered to be more intelligent and authoritative.
Ironically, back in the '90s and the aughts, I preferred male voices, set very low in pitch, but in the past few years, I have preferred female voices. This might just be because female voice AI have become more pervasive, and thus become more integrated to "the voice in my head," which is what I call the kind of AI voice that becomes so quotidian as to be rendered unnoticed as something "other," something occurring outside of my own thoughts.

So, audio AI are honorary blind people?

Or am I an hnorary audio algorithm? Because I can do most of the things these AI can do.
While this may poke a ratioinal pin in the over-inflated balloon of blink superpowers, I can tell you, interpreting information from how people speak isn't rocket science. When people are lying, their voices tend to go up. When they are under stress or upset their body postures curl in on themselves, inhibiting the voice. When couples fight repeatedly, their arguments form patterns and, once name-calling comes into play, you can take a guess that that relationship is doomed. Even your facial expression affects the voice, and it's often easy to tell if someone is happy or sad. I think one could possibly even diagnose depression if one had access to a sampling of voice recordings.
This is why voice exercises are one of the first things acting classes focus on.
And yes, your phone is listening to you, because that's what it is programmed to do, not because it is trying to inform Big Brother what color your panties are.

And now you might be asking yourself, Can Kes tell what color my panties are?

*Kestrell smiles enigmatically.*