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]

By the way, what do you guys think of Flyleaf? "Goth" never quite seemed the right term for them, or for Evanescence either. But "emo" isn't either. And have any of you ever made it to Kelly Clarkson album tracks like "Addicted" and "Hear Me," and Avril Lavigne tracks like "Unwanted" and "Losing Grip"? It isn't as if emo is the only source for feminized loud teen agony.