{"id":2013,"date":"2009-02-18T00:30:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T05:30:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-02-18T00:30:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T00:30:28","slug":"hey-ladies-are-you-capable-of-talking-ro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/hey-ladies-are-you-capable-of-talking-ro\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Ladies, Are You Capable of Talking Rock Shit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hy5iQubfV5s?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nWe sometimes joke about the fact that few <strong>Townswomen<\/strong> comment in the Halls of Rock &#8211; in fact, I can&#8217;t tell you how long it&#8217;s been since the last time we&#8217;ve had a comment from a woman &#8211; but it hurts. I don&#8217;t know about you, but I worked hard to get this passionate, witty, and articulate about the the music I love &#8211; and here I am, still stuck in the same wrong side of the party, along with Mohammed, Jugdish, Sidney, and Clayton.<\/p>\n<p>If this were Literature Town Hall or Film Town Hall I&#8217;d bet we&#8217;d hear from almost as many men as women. Why not Rock Town Hall? I see women at concerts. I know women buy records. There are even women who play in bands. Wasn&#8217;t it the <strong>Year of Women in Rock<\/strong> just a few years ago? Women were talking rock shit in that special issue of <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>, but it seems they&#8217;ve been quiet ever since.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t be sure that every Townsperson who does post here on a regular basis is a dude, but I&#8217;m pretty sure that&#8217;s the case. It&#8217;s easy to think that the problem is with us, but I want to look at this from another perspective: <em>Are women capable of talking rock shit?<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nA lot of folks don&#8217;t <em>get<\/em> what goes on here &#8211; and that&#8217;s cool. A lot of knowledgeable rock fans (ie, guys) have given me all sorts of reasons why they are happy to talk rock shit with me <em>in person<\/em> but not here, on the public record. I wish it were otherwise, but I&#8217;ll accept their excuses. But only one of the knowlegeable women rockers I know has ever given me any reason why she only rarely comments here. I&#8217;ve gotta wonder if women are even capable of talking rock shit. <\/p>\n<p>Hey ladies, show me I&#8217;m out of my mind for even raising this question. I know you&#8217;re out there, if only looking over your man&#8217;s shoulder. Grab the mouse, ready your fingertips at the keyboard, and tell me what&#8217;s holding you back. You can&#8217;t tell me you don&#8217;t harbor some odd perspective on rock that may not be received as openly in a venue populated by more reasonable, socially adjusted people, can you? This is why we&#8217;re here. Deep down, are you simply more adjusted than men? We&#8217;re a pretty polite and open-minded bunch, no? Despite some occasional sophomoric references to the contrary, is your silence a statement that this is a particularly sexist rock music discussion blog? Or are you just not <em>capable<\/em> of talking rock shit?<\/p>\n<p>At the risk of losing what little goodwill I&#8217;ve built up as Moderator of Rock Town Hall, I am compelled to ask this particularly poorly phrased question. I hope you will read between the lines and see the welcoming, inviting nature of my question. I hope you will make up for lost time, let your freak flag fly, and share some of the rock shit that&#8217;s been stored up inside you, even if it means telling us what we don&#8217;t want to hear. <\/p>\n<p><em>I look forward to your comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We sometimes joke about the fact that few Townswomen comment in the Halls of Rock &#8211; in fact, I can&#8217;t tell you how long it&#8217;s been since the last time we&#8217;ve had a comment from a woman &#8211; but it hurts. 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