With his height, deep voice and easy manner, he exuded charm and authority.
I entered puberty before secondary school: my height, broken voice and stubble meant that nobody picked a fight with me, no matter how often I admitted to liking poetry.
"You, the artists and writers and musicians who come here — you are my family," he said, regaining his composure, his face smooth again, pulling himself up to his full, haughty height, his voice soothing and careful, though not quite careful enough to hide the condescension.
In soul, in rock 'n' roll, and in pop, there is a long tradition of men singing in high voices, the height of the voice suggesting the pitch of the singer's fervor.
For while capable of reaching earthily soulful heights, the voice of Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power, disappears between numbers.
My bow ties and brightly colored eyeglass frames are as much a part of me as my height or my voice.
One or two of his friends have had their growth spurts, so that I find myself deferring to the sudden height and booming voice of a boy whom last year I knew as a clear-skinned little pipsqueak.
It's hard to deny that humans are very susceptible to the process of social dominance; we exist in unequal hierarchies with inferior and superior individuals in almost every context, so it's not far-fetched to assume that some men rise to the top of these hierarchies due to a combination of physical and psychological qualities (such as height, a deep voice, and so on).
Pu, known as China's "Giant Lawyer" for his commanding height and baritone voice, has gained a massive following online as a bold and acerbic critic of government policy.
We cannot use public restrooms without garnering backlash, and many trans women are often shamed by society for diverging from already-high expectations for women's bodies, from our height to our voices to what's in our pants.
