Discussion of "Sajiao" and gender
Example of discussion of online sajiao usage in Chinese webnovel "Guide on How to Fail at Online Dating"/"网恋翻车指南." Warnings for implied sexism, homophobia, transphobia.
For context, the narrator's friend Lu Wenhao has been catfished by an older man pretending to be a young woman using a voice changer, who convinced him to spend money buying him items in an online game. Part of the scammer's persona is using sajiao. There's discussion of what sajiao is, characters' emotional response to it, and how they feel about a man using it. Relevant passage from linked translation below, with instances of the term "sajiao" in original Mandarin indicated.
"He had heard Lu Wenhao chatting with his online girlfriend through voice messages before. The girl’s voice was all sickly sweet; each sentence would even be followed by a ~, and it always sounded like it was wrapped up in sugar. During this cute act [sajiao], Jing Huan could get goosebumps all over his body.
'Voice changer.' Gao Zixiang said, 'In the morning, his girlfriend probably forgot to open that thing and asked him for new clothes in a male voice. I almost died on the spot after listening to him act cute [sajiao]… That voice was even more boorish than Old Yan’s, and he sounded like someone who’s over 30.'"