Helen Barrell wrote:
> Dan said:
> >I think what I said still stands. Anything so directly "gender
> >specific" will not be of much interest to the opposite.... and
> >>considering
> >the predominately male make up (no pun) of this list ( and >any mod
> >scene
> >in general) one could guess the outcome of any such topic >being
> >broached...(Phew...) Just a bit of common sense I think.
> >Not to slam the female gender in any way, shape or form. I happen to
> >like the female gender in many ways, shapes and forms.
>
> to be honest, the people who'd analysed e-mail lists were feminists with
> an
> axe to grind - i spose if the men on this list started to talk about
> shaving
> and sideburns, girls would get pissed off! i was just wondering how
> people
> felt the findings of those 'researchers' reflected what goes on here on
> the
> modslist.
> there isn't that much on the modslist at all about clothes or image-wise
>
> posts, it's mainly music-based, unless someone asks about shops or sites
>
> where they can get clothes or shoes from. is the gender thing perhaps
> why
> this is?
> what is quite amusing, Mr Geddes, is that, as you say, this list is
> mostly
> bloke-esque, and so there is little point in girls posting about girl
> things
> - well, most of the people who read Dansette (my fanzine) are men, even
> tho'
> i always have articles about make-up or girls' clothing etc!
> i dunno - maybe they skip through those pages!
>
They probably do skip those pages. But you know, I have a copy of
"Quant by Quant"
out of historical curiousity....that doesn't mean it pops up in
conversation much.
Nor do the women's fashion articles in my copies of "Rave". The point
was not to
"silence" you, as you put it, but to respond to your question as to why
men aren't
interested in mailing list discussions of women's hair-dos and make up.
It seems rather
obvious to me. I'm not telling you to not bring it up, just don't be
surprised by a lack
of interest.
Dan
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