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But she doesn't want to be part of it anyway, so it's irrelevant? You can't blame me for not representing a specific subset of women who do not want to be respresented. If they're going to go all Maggie Thatcher on this that's their biz. But that's obviously them opting out of this too.

To be honest, a lot of these same points were raised and dealth with, especially the "evidence of bias" sort of thing. It kind of looks like you very lightly skim read the thread. Saying the only boundaries are the ones you set yourself to me is just being ignorant of the fact that there is a...

I think writing this night off as purely political is really demeaning, as far as I'm concerned improving and showcasing diversity & gender balance in music is something that's good for music - not just politics. I think there's a degree of naivety here because there are always going to be...

While I don't have as much direct experience perhaps, I have to disagree with parts of this because I think you're making a fundamental mistake with where a lot of these issues are coming from. In particular being labelled as a "girl band" and not just "a band", and sort of implying that having...

Yeah. My situation is pretty complicated though.

Someone suggested OpheliaMC or Lady Grew.

Well, maybe you have to ask why there aren't more black people in bands? At least there, there's sort of a cultural thing that has a slightly more valid history than subtexts that equate to "girls can't play guitar". But it does seem wrong that a lot of black dudes are still stereotyped into...

There was a much higher proportion of female fronted bands in goth(and related genres) than there are in most rock genres. This is hard to deny. What does this even mean? If there were more women in it, more balance, that's a good how. How does that "not matter" because it was "corporate...

I think it's pretty sad that people are more into winding someone who wants to do something decent up than actually getting behind improving the scene. I think it says a lot about how a lot of people's moral centers have been utterly lobotomised. Bunch of wasters.

They'll say they're "Joking around" but the problem is that also means that they can't take things like women's representation seriously at all. They just come off as a bunch of vapid eejits trying to show off to their mates.

You guys are SO funny!111 lollzzz

This is the problem with discussing sexism, or any "ism" - people fail to recognise that sexism is an institutionalised thing - it happens as a wider effect, as part of our culture. An entire gender cannot make a choice. It's a ridiculous notion but it's become acceptable discourse when...

As opposed to you who think there isn't even a problem and attack me for thinking there is and trying to do something about it. Whatever. That is not my experience at all; there are nearly always a greater proportion of women in the audience than on stage. With heavier & hardcore gigs I tend...

If people did just look at them as "musicians", and there were no barriers, there would be n equal amount of male and female musicians. Do you seriously believe that unless there are legal restrictions there are no barriers? Talking about sexism always results in vast wads of intellectual...

Yes, but it's not. The most frustrating thing is when people act like pretending like everything is okay, we don't have a problem is the only way forward and if anyone tries to intervene they're the real "sexists" or some shite. If you're seriously going to push that there's not much I can do as...

the problem is if there was really no male or female in punk, you would see an equal amount of male and female. Nothing like it, in the music scene in general, so we have a problem. By showcasing what artists we do have, we hope to help draw more female musicians out of the woodwork. I can...

"Get your God out of my Gowl" was my favourite.

Wait what, seriously? Boris are great, Wata is one of my favourite guitarists.

No offense to her, I think that sort of attitude is missing the point. In terms of bigger name artists I like, I remember for years Bjork used to have that sort of attitude but turned around in recent years. A lot of people in the 90s got this feel things were more progressive, pushing forward...

Hey; don't think I'll be able to make it up for that, but can you please direct people to this? http://www.facebook.com/FemfestCork Thanks!