Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!gatech!bloom-beacon!dont-send-mail-to-path-lines From: rjc@cstr.ed.ac.UK (Richard Caley) Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Where are all the blokes? Message-ID: Date: 19 Apr 91 23:24:21 GMT Sender: Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU Distribution: rec Organization: Centre for Speech Technology Research Lines: 37 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu I was trying to sort out the mess that is my bedroom the other day and got as far as the CDs, tapes etc. It occured to me that there is a decided bias in my collection... Where are all the men? Consider the following artists KT, Laurie Anderson, Toyah Willcox, Suzanne Vega, Danielle Dax, Jane Sibbery, Janis Joplin, Tanita Tikarum, Sally Barker, Sinead O'Connor, Michelle Shocked, Enya. Now, try and construct a similar list of men... Peter Gabriel, Fish, David Bowie, Chris DeBurgh, David Silvian, BB King ... And that's just about it. I suppose there is Roger Waters, but he is well out of his class in this company IMHO. Since I am not yet willing to give up on my half of humanity, I assume there are loads of male artists out there I have never come across simply because I lean heavily on r.m.gaffa for hints and we seem to have a decided bias towards women here. So, can anyone help me end my blatently sexist buying practices? There must be some Gaffaish male artists out there. Some `Ground Rules': No groups -- That opens the field too wide. No composers -- for similar reasons. No Des O'Connor -- I sometimes read news at lunchtime:-) -- rjc@cstr.ed.ac.uk A good bookshop is just a genteel black hole. - Terry Pratchet `Guards! Guards!'