Lack of Female Representation

Did you ever think that sgreg was being deliberately provocative to get the sensitive among us upset? Good on you if you were joking. If not then I think it may be time to revaluate your relationship. Just sayin!

Guilty as charged. Always fun to poke the bears and see how they respond.

I’m noticing a big change in an associated field... Music Production. As an audio engineer/hobbyist, I notice many more women getting into audio & video production, and rock bands. Just look at YouTube and you’ll see amazing women drummers and guitarists making their own videos, and Killing it! 10 years ago it was still a novelty to see a woman in a rock band, and now a 50/50 split is not uncommon at all. I see a lot of change in the music world, but I don’t know if that will filter down into audiophile land. I see YouTube as a great equalizer. It allows young women to learn things that previously they’d have to "break into the boy’s club" to do. Joining a band as the only girl to learn how to play guitar is a big obstacle.  But learning at home watching YouTube videos is safe & comfortable.  This goes for many other fields of study too... machining, woodworking, photography. YouTube has issues, no doubt, but it is a treasure trove of "how-to" information.  Even for audiophiles!

Amazing how some of these responses boil down to nothing more than, "too bad, grow thicker skin, I'm not gonna change or make any effort to accommodate you, It's your perception which is wrong, etc."

All of that is just validation of how immutably primitive some can be. It also brings out other, associated realms of like thinking (politics) and conflates the two.

This is like going into a therapy session with the intent of telling off the therapist. You go, dudes.

All the best,
Nonoise

@nonoise Now why did you have to bring up therapy? For some of those on Audiogon, they tried therapy in the attempt to reconcile the issues with their first four marriages, so, apparently therapy just doesn't work! ;-) 

I will make the same effort to accommodate a women as I would a man. How could a woman expect more? Anything else is patronizing and true chauvinism. Because there is no universal female experience, everything is individual perception and as such can only addressed individually. Same applies for all the other so-called "systemics". By telling someone what to expect you can influence the expectation.

If by referring to me as a primitive you imply a desire to go back to the days of open discourse, lack of cancel-culture, teachers that dont socially indoctrinate, open college forums, willingness to embrace our actual history, rejection of societal androgenization, recognition/reward, etc then I am definitely a primitive and I wear this badge proudly. 

What do you suggest we do to increase female participation?