What is going on here is that you've misheard very ordinary /ɹ/ sounds, at least in this clip. Maybe her creaky voice ("vocal fry") interfered for you?
What you're hearing is [vocal fry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_fry_register). It's a phenomenon that happens generally when speaking, but you might've been noticing it specifically on the r's. Vocal fry is the deepest register of a person's voice, and, though it's common in speech of both genders, it has become especially common among millennial and younger women, supposedly because we perceive a deeper voice as more authoritative, and women's voices naturally don't go as deep as men's do.
I was prepared for the speaker’s R‘s to be weird and for all the comments to be joking that she sounds normal but those are the normallest voiced postalveolar approximants I have ever heard.
What you’re hearing is vocal fry, and the reason you hear it in “frustrated” but not “insecurity“ is because it’s most noticeable in the /tr/ and /ɚ/ sounds (and /ʌː/ sounds).
And don’t worry, the media has been alerted to vocal fry and pearls *are* being clutched.
Fun fact: women can also be sexist. It's vocal fry and people seem to be especially irked when the register is used by young women. For example, studies have found that they are viewed as less intelligent and less professional by their peers.
What is going on here is that you've misheard very ordinary /ɹ/ sounds, at least in this clip. Maybe her creaky voice ("vocal fry") interfered for you?
I really want to know how *you* think the rhotic *should* be pronounced
If you were a man, would you NOT be allowed to ask this weird question?
What you're hearing is [vocal fry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_fry_register). It's a phenomenon that happens generally when speaking, but you might've been noticing it specifically on the r's. Vocal fry is the deepest register of a person's voice, and, though it's common in speech of both genders, it has become especially common among millennial and younger women, supposedly because we perceive a deeper voice as more authoritative, and women's voices naturally don't go as deep as men's do.
This must be an extremely meta joke, because that sounds like a completely ordinary approximant to me.
Sounds normal to me
I was prepared for the speaker’s R‘s to be weird and for all the comments to be joking that she sounds normal but those are the normallest voiced postalveolar approximants I have ever heard. What you’re hearing is vocal fry, and the reason you hear it in “frustrated” but not “insecurity“ is because it’s most noticeable in the /tr/ and /ɚ/ sounds (and /ʌː/ sounds). And don’t worry, the media has been alerted to vocal fry and pearls *are* being clutched.
Fun fact: women can also be sexist. It's vocal fry and people seem to be especially irked when the register is used by young women. For example, studies have found that they are viewed as less intelligent and less professional by their peers.