How Not To Write About Female Musicians: A Handy Guide

modernistwitch:

gillianmae:

perpetua:

Maura has a lot of good advice here. I think writers should always be thinking about this stuff, and not just about female artists - this applies to race, sexuality, age, genre. No one is perfect, but it’s good to be mindful about this stuff as you write. It’s important to keep in mind that when it comes down to it, writers are paid to think. So you should be thinking! And it can be fun sometimes: I’ve done reviews where to counter the way other writers have written about a subject, I went totally the other way, or made subtle points about an artist’s aesthetic by deliberately not including references to any other artists.

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The crux of what Maura is saying here is ‘recognize & write about the artist as a complicated, legitimate person whose gender is neither invisible nor her entire being,’ I think, which is like … how we should all be viewing one another all the time (but obviously not how society is set up - how scary is it that only certain privileged people, the ones with the money and the power and the whiteness and the accepted gender presentation and the heterosexuality, get to be recognized as fully human on a daily basis)?

YUP

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    right-on. Too bad...people who really need to read it either won’t,
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    Unsurprisingly, several audience members called out for her now-famous cover...Big Black’s...
  7. tessastrain said: YES the nonspecific comparisons thing always KILLS me. See it a lot w/ regard to female comedians especially, who are, of course, all Tina Fey?
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    ^ word. And aside from the following clunker: even...single back-to-back spin
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