According to an article I found, valley girl speak
or uptalk is used by both men and women but women tend use it more frequently. The stereotype for American southern California
valley girl accent originates in the 1980’s.
Frank Zappa’s song “Valley Girl” was released during that decade along
with movies like Valley Girl, Heathers, and later Clueless. Uptalk is not limited to the Southern
California region, it is however a staple of their dialect. Sociologist Thomas J. Linneman found “Men use
uptalk more when surrounded by women contestants, and when correcting a woman
contestant after she makes an incorrect response. The more successful a man is,
the less likely he is to use uptalk; the more successful a woman is, the more
likely she is to use uptalk.” One theory
as to why uptalk is used is to prevent interruption.
My personal theory is that women are used to having
to work harder to be heard. The more
success they gain the more they expect people to listen to them, so they pitch
their voice accordingly in preparation of being interrupted. Men deepen their voices to sound authoritative,
so they are not interrupted at all. In answer to my original question men do speak valley girl, but it does not fit in with their natural language usage the way it does for women. I had not connected valley girl speak with Kaylar's "Language Police" until I started looking into it. Now that I have it makes sense that the two would go hand in hand.
Sources:
https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/23/overturning-the-myth-of-valley-girl-speak/https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/12/scienceshot-men-talk-valley-girls-too
