| OK, here's my "negative femo rant".
When I was with my "band" (four people, two of us actually knew how to play our instruments, the other two were the guitarists- and no, this is not a "guitard" joke, these guys had dropped lots of money on expensive axes that would have been better spent on lessons, and learned a couple of chords out of a book- getting together to abuse substances and musical instruments on Sunday afternoons).
We all worked in the warehouse of a music store.
One of our coworkers went to one of the "guitarists" (who was my BF at the time) and asked, "I hear Byzcat's your bass player. Is she any good?"
BF confirmed that I was, in fact good (good being a relative term, but hey, at least I knew the minor pentatonic scale, which was more than either of the guitarists knew).
Nobody ever came up to me and asked, "I hear (XBF, other idiot) plays guitar in your band. Is he any good?" Or "I hear (music store owner's nephew) is your drummer. Is he any good?" (Actually, he was the best musician in the band, by several orders of magnitude)
Because I'm a woman, it was assumed that I couldn't actually play.
And I've heard many musicians say "I wouldn't have a chick in the band unless she was either really good looking, or really, really good."
And that's my negative femo rant. Enjoy the rest of the thread.
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