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?

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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

You can see this happening a bit in the comments box to the Popular write-up of "San Francisco", which is a really blatant dragging of a scene into a pop context. The pop context plainly one and it's only the dwindling band of hippies who 'were there' that would claim otherwise.

(i.e. "history" bears little or no relation to "memory" shocker)