Sexism in Music - Infuriating Things People Say to Women Musicians

[Lord Sausage]

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1386429052' post='2300013']
Good thread Nige. my heroes in music are 50% women. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEyJmR7z4ng[/media]
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What if you get a new hero who's male and it tips the balance. Do you jettison an older male hero to keep that perfect balance!

[Guest bassman7755]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjxY9rZwNGU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ0jRuASVEQ

[RhysP]

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1386430234' post='2300044']
Rhys come on man, i may have had a few beers with when i posted a lame one now and then, but music is subjective and all that.?
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Just kiddin' - you'd probably think 99% of my record collection was bloody awful if you saw it.

[gjones]

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1386429339' post='2300016']
she plays fantastically well for a chick.
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I saw what you did there

Edited December 7, 2013 by gjones

[itsmedunc]

Slightly off key but about 26 yrs ago I was banned from playing at 'musician collective' venues. I wore a union jack t-shirt and the 'Women of the World' stage started to call me a Nazi based only on the 'offensive' emblem that I wore. The mid 20's ringleader (with a girlfriend of 15!) decided to rant and rave at me backed by nods and tuts from her cohorts. I didnt see why I had to defend myself over my t-shirt so I told her to f**k off and do some ironing. I was then (without trial) duly given my marching orders for being a sexist. The latter 80's were indeed dark times...
I suppose at the time, being a vicious scaremongering paedophile was ok!

[discreet]

[quote name='itsmedunc' timestamp='1386441496' post='2300232']
The latter 80's were indeed dark times...
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They were. The current mrs discreet was a Greenham Common woman. To this day she regales me with hilarious stories about latrine-digging, women being strong and how to knit your own wholemeal tipi.

[bubinga5]

[quote name='Lord Sausage' timestamp='1386433072' post='2300085']
What if you get a new hero who's male and it tips the balance. Do you jettison an older male hero to keep that perfect balance!
[/quote] maybe i was a little specific in that percentage but ok that makes no sense. unless you can explain to me different Mr Sausage. im little slow this evening

Edited December 7, 2013 by bubinga5

[Lord Sausage]

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1386442253' post='2300250']
maybe i was a little specific in that percentage but ok that makes no sense. unless you can explain to me different Mr Sausage.
[/quote]I'm no good at explaining anything!

[Dingus]

[quote name='itsmedunc' timestamp='1386441496' post='2300232']
Slightly off key but about 26 yrs ago I was banned from playing at 'musician collective' venues. I wore a union jack t-shirt and the 'Women of the World' stage started to call me a Nazi based only on the 'offensive' emblem that I wore. The mid 20's ringleader (with a girlfriend of 15!) decided to rant and rave at me backed by nods and tuts from her cohorts. I didnt see why I had to defend myself over my t-shirt so I told her to f**k off and do some ironing. I was then (without trial) duly given my marching orders for being a sexist. The latter 80's were indeed dark times...
I suppose at the time, being a vicious scaremongering paedophile was ok!
[/quote]

Ah , I remember it all so well and those were indeed great days to be an angry woman . I could tell you so many stories of how , during the long and bitter war against Thatcher , otherwise very ordinary women managed to do and say extrordinarilly silly things. under the guise of feminism. I wish it was that time again, to be honest with you . Nowadays both men and women seem to be united in the unbridled pusuit of buying more useless crap they don't really need . That woman you mention is probably a Tory councillor now.


I have had the thought more than once that there would be money to be made from a Peace Camp-themed holiday park , where disgruntled liberals of various persuasions could go ( for a fee, of course) for a week or two to get whatever injustices are currently making their blood boil off their chests. The evening entertainment put on by the staff of the camp would be like a period-correct benefit concert, with out-of -work actors playing the part of Paul Weller , UB40 and Bronski Beat. Instead of bringing spending money , holidaymakers would be given a Giro when they arrived at the beggining of the week that they could cash at a fake post office, and then they would have to make that money last the whole two weeks of the holiday. We would then sell them lentils and Findus Crispy Pancakes at exhorbitant prices. The possibilities are almost endless.

Edited December 7, 2013 by Dingus

[Dingus]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1386441773' post='2300236']
They were. The current mrs discreet was a Greenham Common woman. To this day she regales me with hilarious stories about latrine-digging, women being strong and how to knit your own wholemeal tipi.
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If Mrs Dingus knew how to dig a latrine, our life together would have been very different.

[itsmedunc]

Your reply has made my day! Perhaps those times weren't that dark after all!!!

[seashell]

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1386428631' post='2300010']


You are banned from Off Topic?!! That is f***ing sad. I don't always agree with your angle on things but you are one of BC's valuables in OT.


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+1

[Beer of the Bass]

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1386442997' post='2300262']
I have had the thought more than once that there would be money to be made from a Peace Camp-themed holiday park , where disgruntled liberals of various persuasions could go ( for a fee, of course) for a week or two to get whatever injustices are currently making their blood boil off their chests. The evening entertainment put on by the staff of the camp would be like a period-correct benefit concert, with out-of -work actors playing the part of Paul Weller , UB40 and Bronski Beat. Instead of bringing spending money , holidaymakers would be given a Giro when they arrived at the beggining of the week that they could cash at a fake post office, and then they would have to make that money last the whole two weeks of the holiday. We would then sell them lentils and Findus Crispy Pancakes at exhorbitant prices. The possibilities are almost endless.
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Do we get a bottle of Merrydown and a dog on a string? In that case count me in!

[toneknob]

There's nothing wrong with being sexy

[discreet]

[quote name='toneknob' timestamp='1386497791' post='2300607']
There's nothing wrong with being sexy
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Thank you!

[Big_Stu]

My other half's degree is in a male dominated industry. She wasn't quite hounded out, more just largely ignored, credit taken by men for her discoveries, work, etc.
She now has a very successful business coaching women to be independent in a male environment. Shows women how to develop their death-stare, that kind of thing . I've just helped her write her first book on a relevant area of her coaching.


Then I patted her on her little head and said "well done".

The plaster comes off Tuesday - and they should be discharging me on Wednesday.

[discreet]

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1386501955' post='2300700']
Shows women how to develop their death-stare, that kind of thing .
The plaster comes off Tuesday - and they should be discharging me on Wednesday.
[/quote]

Quite. You should also try being on the receiving end of the current mrs discreet's death-kick in the bollocks.

Edited December 8, 2013 by discreet

[Big_Stu]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1386502354' post='2300709']
Quite. You should also try being on the receiving end of the current mrs discreet's death-kick in the bollocks.
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IME that's what you get when you're playing at wibbly-wobbly; when you should be listening intently with a concentrating look on your face and nods at appropriate times.

[tauzero]

I must confess to being accidentally one of those sort that are being held to contumely in this thread. I was at my first Basschat bass bash in Northampton a few years ago, and asked a young lady who she was with. Fortunately she held her temper and explained to me that she was a bassist. In my defence, I had gone there with my band's USP, Mrs Zero the singer, and was in an accompanying-female mental gear.

Can'r remember who said female bassist was now, she was around at the same time as AM1, Shara 5-string and Zoe BillySheehan but wasn't any of them.

[flyfisher]

Maybe she stormed off from BC in disgust . . . .

[spinynorman]

I was a bit sceptical about the article when I saw it was in the Huff, and it came across to me as a thinly disguised plug for the author's band.

It all seems a bit trivial compared to some of the things my wife's had since she went blind - probably the worst being - when she had a corneal ulcer and was acutely sensitive to light - "If you took the shades off, you'd be able to see better".