Not Just Whistlin’ Dixie
Posted Monday, January 30th, 2006 by nycgadgetgirlThe Conversation
Her (w/Jamaican accent): You whistle like a man.Me: … oh, ok …(sudden extended silence) … … wait. HUH?
Her: I’ve never heard a woman whistle like that. I can hear you whistlin’ all over.
What the heck does that mean? Whistling ability is gender specific and mine is wrong? I’m really a guy in a girl’s body? Was there a POINT to that remark?
All the way home from work I’m thinking to myself “Have I ever heard another woman whistle the way I do? Or only men? Is there something WRONG with me?”
I loved listening to my dad whistle when I was a kid and now I do it. If I’m deep in thought, I may be whistling away and not even know it.
weird. Just weird.
January 31st, 2006 at 6:37 pm
That’s very… odd.
I never thought of whistling as being gender-specific. We probably whistle alike, since I picked it up the same way you did.
Now I’m going to have to be conscious of what other whistlers sound like and see if there really is a gender line of some sort!
December 10th, 2006 at 5:31 pm
Some ladies have excellent whistling skills,
and nobody can tell them they sound like men.
Here’s a site with some of the world’s greatest female whistlers, of the past and present:
http://north_wrong_tune.tripod.com/
December 12th, 2006 at 10:39 am
There are some flaws in the site linked to on my previous comment.
The correct link to Linda Parker Hamilton’s site is:
http://www.northernnightingale.com/
The correct link to UC site about Emily Eagen (with a sample of her whistling) is:
http://www.magazine.uc.edu/0101/whistler.htm
Both sound great !!
January 17th, 2008 at 9:42 am
It’s very weird…..I agree,
In this case, my mom would whistle like a man too.
She has the most powerful whistle ever heard.And no finger needed, even for calling me……..
Definetly the best whistler I know.