at work i usually don’t deal with customers over the phone but the last 3 times i did they all called me “ma’am”? i didn’t even think i was putting in a ton of effort into it when i did that time but holy shit i sound like a girl now??? customers in person rarely if ever gender me as female but one even did today and I’m even getting way less “sirs” too! i didn’t even get one at all today wow I feel so great!!! 
I’m reading your post with an internal voice that has a beautiful, sultry dulcet tone, congrats comrade!
that is absolutely not what my voice sounds like but PLEASE imagine that it does
I’m reading her voice as an abrasive mid-western wine mom.