I Thought Salon’s Amanda Marcotte Had Already Reached Full Moron. I Was Wrong.

[GURPS]

“Sgt. Pepper’s” was the point when rock stopped being the music of girls and started being the music of men…

…When the quartet from Liverpool started releasing albums, their fans were mostly teenage girls who were frequently mocked for the hysterical outpouring of enthusiasm that clearly was an uncorking of repressed lust. Girls liked the Beatles because they wanted to #### the Beatles (or so the theory went), and the whole thing was kind of embarrassing, even for the men at the center of the enterprise who were getting rich and famous off all that female desire…

…“Sgt. Pepper” is a good pop record, don’t get me wrong. But it’s a record I resent, because it helped cement this notion that music for girls is silly and music for men is artistically significant. It’s a notion that is doubly appalling because history shows, time and time again, that girl-tastes are the ones that are ahead of the curve.”​

She resents Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, you guys. She resents it. Because sexism. And probably menstruation and abortions, or something. I don’t even know, because CHICK IS WACK.



I Thought Salon’s Amanda Marcotte Had Already Reached Full Moron. I Was Wrong.

 

[SamSpade]

I thought the original article's observations were --- interesting. I assumed that, back then, rock had just evolved from an innocent dance culture to a more angry, rebellious "masculine" (as she might term it) because of the events of the 60's, from the sexual revolution to the drug culture to the Vietnam war protests.

You're just not going to be able to dance to "Give Peace a Chance" or "For What It's Worth" or "Fortunate Son" - but it's what the youth wanted to hear.

Further - her article doesn't suggest some kind of "day the music died" per Don McLean, where we went from Buddy Holly to Mick Jagger. But her history shows the "girly"music running alongside the "manly" music.

BUT - her perspective blinds her to her bias -

She doesn't see that it's not that "manly" music took the forefront and gained more respectability - let's face it, guys didn't create rock bands to appeal to the MEN out there -
But that prior to the mid-60's it barely existed AT ALL.

She doesn't dislike the fact that there was a struggle between the two - she resents that there's "manly" music in the first place.

 

[GURPS]

I thought the original article's observations were --- interesting.

You Are A Better Man Than I ...... when someone starts talking 'gender disparity' in anything I tend to tune out the droning
its just another bitter 3rd Wave Feminist having a melt down over nothing

 

[tommyjo]

You Are A Better Man Than I ...... when someone starts talking 'gender disparity' in anything I tend to tune out the droning

So then why did you:

1. Read the article?

2. Cut, paste and post it on here?

 

[Lurk]

So then why did you:

1. Read the article?

2. Cut, paste and post it on here?

It was Bait. And you bit.

 

[Gilligan]

It was Bait. And you bit.

She's so easy, it's barely even sport any more.

 

[GURPS]

So then why did you:

I read the analysis ..... not the piece analyzed

just another example of how out of touch Progressives / 3rd Wave Feminists are With Main Stream Americans

 

[vraiblonde]

Original article:

http://www.salon.com/2017/05/29/aga...dy-and-important-and-that-wasnt-a-good-thing/

My comment:

I hope you will be able to untwist yourself after what it must have taken to write that silly piece. Aren't you a little old to be engaging in this sort of teenage pot smoker pseudo-philosophizing?

 

[BOP]

So then why did you:

1. Read the article?

2. Cut, paste and post it on here?

Speaking of bitter 3rd Wave Feminists having a melt down over nothing....