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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[koganbot]

Also, Meg & Dia are getting called "emo" now (don't know if they'd go along with this); I think of them as Vanessa Carlton decides to rock LOUD. Asking where the emo girl bands are is kind of like asking where the boy Tori Amoses and Alanis Morissettes are. If a girl's going to go emo it might be to go LOUD where previously she hadn't allowed herself to, whereas a boy might use it to go swishy and vulnerable.

To shift the topic slightly, based on very unrepresentative samples I'd say that cutting is way more a girl thing than a boy thing.