From Michael Upton Sent Tue, Jun 23rd 1998, 01:42
From Michael Upton Sent Tue, Jun 23rd 1998, 01:42
On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, ninphil wrote: | OK, I considered letting this thread go...figuring everyone elses 2cents | would eventually make my point. But then it lead to a discussion in our | office about men women, music and competition. I think there is a male | misconception out there that if you don't ceaseslessly buy, collect, | proove your knowlege that somehow you don't appreciate or truly | understand music. Although I think the above has actually been said a few times, I just have to say "right on", cos it's a generalisation I've found to be soooo true. The number of male friends (well, and enemies for that matter) I have who say "ahhh women are hardly ever passionate about music", because they don't buy heaps, or even read heaps, is nuts. I remember that dude einexile, if he still exists, saying on the ambient list that there was always a risk of turning trends about fewer women than men being into this shit into statements about what should be. Like, let's get girls up and out there doing stuff, as if the lives of those who don't take an interest the way more boys do are losing out somehow. I encountered this first hand with my g/f not wanting to comment on stuff I did, because she didn't feel she had enough knowledge of the kind of music I was doing. Not that she isn't into the music, mind you, just that she felt she didn't have the _knowledge_. I don't really care at all - I just want to know what people respond to, not how my precious peice of art fits the milieu of the IDM genre. ;) Maybe that's not a gender thing, but I've never had a guy who actually like IDM stuff say "sorry, I don't know enough about it to comment", and it reminds me of what 'illipa (heh) wrote. Michael "You know what? I'll call him Jet Jaguar..." http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~michael/jj.html Site last updated 15/4/98