Re: [idm] idm girls/musical aesthetics and other pretentious stuffs
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quoted 3 lines Who is that anyway, and why the fuck does she have a>Who is that anyway, and why the fuck does she have a
>cult of girls following her around?! I've always
>wondered that.
Ani Difranco is a baddass singer-songwriter with phenominal guitar
playing skills and an excellent sense of melody and rhythm (IMO) who -
because she is female, has opinions, and expresses them with
conviction - has a cult of little girls following her around. sorry
for the OT rant but I just went to a concert of hers and had to
interact with these kids it was very frustrating.
I guess the point I'd like to make from this is that even if the
motivations for starting any kind of gender-specific group may be well
founded, it may in the end server to widen and solidify the gender
divide. Be it women's music or women's history, which are argueably
both very necessary subjects, encouraging people to think along those
lines is encouraging men and women not to take each other seriously.
the answer, when we find that women aren't being included in one area
isn't to go and build them another area, it's to figure out what's
wrong with the first one that's keeping them excluded and to fix it.
-Paul Hendrick
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