Keira WitherKay wrote:
and lastly what the F@#K has gender got to do with how good a guitarist is....truly we all just guitarists.....
Well there's the rub. Because the ladies are severely under represented in the worlds of rock and jazz. Especially on guitar. What's going on? Either a lot of BS obstacles are being placed in their way or they just aren't interested. I have no reason at all to think that they CAN'T play guitar at the highest level - and even if I did start from that position I've seen enough evidence to the contrary.
So the numbers are odd. It's worth asking why.
And I do wish that we could get over the defensiveness or qualifying ... "she's pretty good FOR A GIRL". What is that? Either she's good or she's not. Gender shouldn't come into it either way, there shouldn't be a different standard of "pretty good" for guitar playing for women. Women are just as prone to this kind of statement as men, it seems to me. I can see the justification when it comes to things like weight lifting where the slighter female physique rules absolute parity of performance out, but not for guitar playing for crying out loud.
and gender should not be an issue in this time of social development..... i mean do you look oddly and pass comment on women doctors or lawyers or judges, or engineers....
Doctors... well that is a different matter from the other professions. I know women who will not go to a male gynaecologist, and I know men who won't drop their trousers in front of a woman doctor. There is an extra bit of sensitivity there.
so next time you see a girl guitarist just treat her as any other guitarist ..... try forget her gender ...heheheh yeah yeah i know thats hard for you straight boys...... but try.... and maybe if you see past your centuries of inbred sexism you will see the artist for the artist she/he is and forget to be competive....
which once more is in your male makeup.....
Exactly. And ix-nay on looking down her top ?
I mean, you wouldn't base your enjoyment of a Status Quo show on what you got to see when you peeped down Rick Parfitt's shirt, would you? You probably wouldn't even THINK of copping that kind of eyeful.
Sheesh! Last time I played at TJs I got sandwiched (performance slot wise, let's keep it clean) between two women who are waaaaaay better players than I am. If I'd been of the "girls can't play" school of thought my ego would have been in real trouble.
