So are you saying there’s no gender gap in other areas of music? I don’t think plonking down the Beyonce card here says anything anyway - there are far more people involved in that scene (which includes massive marketing machinery) and a few female examples don’t change the overall demographic.
Having said that, I do agree that the whole gender gap thing is an artificial construct of a culture that emphasises artificial differences between men and women. It’s really strange but I do find that the supposedly more equalitarian mentality in the West about this issues is completely blown out of th water in the supposedly more backward East in some areas, most notably science and engineering.There are few hangups about women training to be scientists and engineers over there whereas in the west there seems to be a reluctance to change whether from a societal mindset or individual expectations. Note that I’m not saying that women in the East have it any easier rising to senior positions, in fact it might be more difficult. Just that there are more women entering into those fields.
I’m saying there’s mechanisms in place that make it hard to judge how important a producer and composer she is… literally impossible to get through the haircuts and different way she serves up her bum and that - at that frequency
just like an mj or prince where we dont look at the composer side initially
sorry but the second part of your post is just not true at all
how can you not agree with ‘I do agree that the whole gender gap thing is an artificial construct of a culture that emphasises artificial differences between men and women’?
I don’t even think electronic music in general - is sexist…
In fact, I’d say it’s probably one of the most open to females
because it is “new” - it’s a product of the most new generations…
It’s the entire construct of the world as we know it
that still suffers the gender inequality…systemically/culturally
and the dynamic between a man and a woman -
is always going to be different than two dudes…
I don’t think that has to be a problem as long as everyone is aware of it…
and can acknowledge it in a playful, light hearted way…
We need a tap out signal - where either party can tap out
when the wrestling gets to be too much…
I feel like this is almost a waste of my time but @lovelydivot can you stop trying to sidetrack the thread by posting like 15 times in a row? Use the edit button and put it all on one rather than 3 in a row. Please, for the love of god.
the word ‘artificial’ doesn’t imply that we don’t observe differences, for example in the workplace as you mentioned
what it means is that these differences are not innate and are instead, as @kay pointed out, the results of cultural pressures that either overtly or covertly influence the way that men and women think about their gender roles
My God is cool as well, just without the hate, obsessive homophobia, revolting misogyny and wild ignorance. My God is a Filipina lesbian who smokes dope and listens to Bruno Mars. She wears the clit ring of power. Bow before her
idk how you can seriously act like cultural pressures/biases have nothing to do with it.
they exist in all facets of our lives (workplace, family, school, etc) and tend to be deeply internalized whether we’re even consciously aware of them or not. why is dance music some magical safe zone where they dont exist?
If we look at the beginnings of House, we see many female figures as vocalists, positively leading figures in Disco. But, see how those early days were also when dance held a connect with the Church, which was where the roots of House music lay
If we trace back on these roots, we see a clear triangle connecting religion, dance and the female. So many spiritual traditions concerning dancing women, to music played by (im assuming) men. Could be something there
mate… do some reading, there are no innate biological differences between boys and girls that are present as infants, it’s only when people start to grow up and internalize these pressures that differences start to be seen in brain structure etc.