Submitted for your discussion: Women and Emo

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Someone in The Other Place noted with disapproval the absence of women on the bill at the Reading Festival this year, (compared to women and mixed-gender bands from, say, a decade ago) and discussion quickly devolved into one aobut sexism in music.

I don't follow emo at all, but based simply on my scanning of music mags, the web, etc., it suddenly struck me that one reason for the lack of women is probably the fact that emo bands are so popular now, and every one of the bands that jump to mind are all-male. Is this just my ignorance of the scene? Or am I correct in somehow thinking that emo is a VERY male music?

Comments

[cis.livejournal.com]

And the artifice - this is the theater-kid thing, it's very consciously histrionic, literally "acting up". Pantomime, melodrama, tragicomedy (P!ATD sometimes do this kind of semi-brechtian thing they totally learnt in drama class). Taking what you're given to the extreme: if I'm supposed to be effeminate i'll go androgyne and wear eyeliner, if I'm suposed to be angry i'll be incoherently spitting rage, if I'm supposed to be sad i'll be the saddest person in the world.