Re: Why No Girls
Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 5:59 am
I have only read through the first couple of pages but I think I've read enough to make a few comments.
I used to be all gender equality and all that but over the years I have come to learn that generally women are indeed remarkably different to men. I'm not talking inferior/superior terms - just different. and I beleive it is pretty much the same in different cultures, but in different ways.
For instance: On this forum, who posts? Men. Disregarding the notion of machismo which may or may not be relevant (I'm not very macho myself) why would that be? Who has time to spend on such fripperies as talking at length and repeatedly about music? Men! Why?
I can only answer for myself - in my personal life there are few opportunities to hang with the boys and anyway the 'boys' don't really share the same taste in music. So I'm willing to lose an hour or two of sleep cruising this forum finding like minded people and sharing opinions, ideas etc.
It has no practical value (I beg to differ on this point!) and I think this is where the gender difference might be.
Women tend to think themselves more practical than men and will dismiss this form of indulgence, while indulging their own 'wastes of time' at other times not seeing the disconnect in the duality therein. It is a matter of perception. What a woman sees as important a man may consider no big deal and vice versa.
Posting on forums is essentially a geek activity - while it is so easy to do nowadays it was not always so - the computer world is still male dominated too. Changing, but little by little.
Collecting records is as others have said really a male
pursuit.
I don't know if I've really made a relevant point here at all because it just occurred to me that most people I've known over the years would just not be doing whay I am doing now at this moment - their concerns are different.
Most people consider other things more important than music.
A good illustration of this whole thing is the explosion of blogging in the past few years. I have no idea about the ratio of women to men but I would guess that even if there is a good showing of women percentage wise, you'll find that the men are the ones who feel a need to be up to date, relevant and (self) important somehow. Again this is personal experience talking.
Just a light note here and no intention to offend - the one female poster was LadyDJ (were there more? not sure) - so why Lady DJ?
Where is Man DJ? or Gentleman DJ?
Women still feel a need to assert their identity while men just seem to be the same old rag tag bunch of blowhards we've always been!
I am man! hear me miouw...
and I just remembered this too. I was invited to participate in a Europe Asia Dub seminar in Sweden in 2007 and in the lead up to the actual event the organisers were having great difficulty finding women in either Europe or Asia in some way involved in the Dub craft. The resulting 20 or so people were mostly men and the handful of women were basically drafted in from different scenes.
you can hear the male dominated results of 1/3 of the event here:
http://www.acetonestudio.com/lefthandofdubness.html
That were four blokes and a lady doing lady loops and sound effects on a lap top!
I used to be all gender equality and all that but over the years I have come to learn that generally women are indeed remarkably different to men. I'm not talking inferior/superior terms - just different. and I beleive it is pretty much the same in different cultures, but in different ways.
For instance: On this forum, who posts? Men. Disregarding the notion of machismo which may or may not be relevant (I'm not very macho myself) why would that be? Who has time to spend on such fripperies as talking at length and repeatedly about music? Men! Why?
I can only answer for myself - in my personal life there are few opportunities to hang with the boys and anyway the 'boys' don't really share the same taste in music. So I'm willing to lose an hour or two of sleep cruising this forum finding like minded people and sharing opinions, ideas etc.
It has no practical value (I beg to differ on this point!) and I think this is where the gender difference might be.
Women tend to think themselves more practical than men and will dismiss this form of indulgence, while indulging their own 'wastes of time' at other times not seeing the disconnect in the duality therein. It is a matter of perception. What a woman sees as important a man may consider no big deal and vice versa.
Posting on forums is essentially a geek activity - while it is so easy to do nowadays it was not always so - the computer world is still male dominated too. Changing, but little by little.
Collecting records is as others have said really a male
pursuit.
I don't know if I've really made a relevant point here at all because it just occurred to me that most people I've known over the years would just not be doing whay I am doing now at this moment - their concerns are different.
Most people consider other things more important than music.
A good illustration of this whole thing is the explosion of blogging in the past few years. I have no idea about the ratio of women to men but I would guess that even if there is a good showing of women percentage wise, you'll find that the men are the ones who feel a need to be up to date, relevant and (self) important somehow. Again this is personal experience talking.
Just a light note here and no intention to offend - the one female poster was LadyDJ (were there more? not sure) - so why Lady DJ?
Where is Man DJ? or Gentleman DJ?
Women still feel a need to assert their identity while men just seem to be the same old rag tag bunch of blowhards we've always been!
I am man! hear me miouw...
and I just remembered this too. I was invited to participate in a Europe Asia Dub seminar in Sweden in 2007 and in the lead up to the actual event the organisers were having great difficulty finding women in either Europe or Asia in some way involved in the Dub craft. The resulting 20 or so people were mostly men and the handful of women were basically drafted in from different scenes.
you can hear the male dominated results of 1/3 of the event here:
http://www.acetonestudio.com/lefthandofdubness.html
That were four blokes and a lady doing lady loops and sound effects on a lap top!