Re: [313] New Years Eve

[maldita]

hey,

what's going on in germany over new years since i'll be there...again. i
don't think i'll be heading out toward berlin, but it highly likely i'll be
around munich, or if worse comes to worse, duesseldorf.

-m.

Re: [313] R: [313] women and electronic music

[maldita]

the fact that there were only 4 girls willing to try should tell you
something about the way things are. i won't bore you too much with things,
but we don't live in a vacuum. societal norms, rules, laws, etc. influences
everything and everyone. 2 girls dropping out of the class when there were
only 4 is a large percentage. the limitations aren't imaged, they are real
because of the images of females we are constently bombarded with. people
can'tdistance themselves from the problem, because that only adds to it. in
fact, doing so makes it easier to justify unjust actions, and to construct
an image of a person who is at fault because of their situation and their
inability to change it, instead of seeing how we are all related, and how
we perpetuate these injustices, and trying to resolve them for real.  it's
the same with race and class issues...very complicated, but i won't go
there. 

maia

--On Fri, Oct 6, 2000 7:56 AM -0700 Nick Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 
  I currently
  am the only girl out of 
  16 guys to be taking a Cisco networking class at my
  high school... 
 
  Not 
  only am I a girl but I'm also 17 so I get looked
  down upon by other woman a 
  little bit older. 
 
 Yeah, I'm doing Computing at college and there were
 only like 4 girls when we started... now we're down to
 2 because lots of ppl dropped out... it's a very
 difficult course u c. 
 
 Maybe there is something in girls not liking techno
 and IT and stuff like that? I dunno, it seems to me
 that most girls look at their (sometimes imagined)
 limitations first rather than just going for the
 target. Whereas guys have a tendancy to do first,
 think after (or not think at all:).   
 
 It's fact that men and women's brains are wired
 slightly differently, I don't think this makes one
 more intelligent or able than the other tho... Men and
 women process information differently that's all...
 
 Nick (Dj Pacific:)
 
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Re: [313] R: [313] women and electronic music

[maldita]

i was very intimated during the very few times i've djed in public, and i'm
still intimated when i have to prove to other djs, usually males, that i
know what i'm doing. at times, i feel as if i can be nothing more that the
dj whore trailing all the djs. i get really self-conscious when i'm the
only female trainspotting, even though i know i only go to clubs to see
djs, to watch their techniques, and to hear records i might want to buy.  

i also, i spin primarily techno in the realm of mills, beyer, surgeon,
etc., and it's hard enough finding female techno role models who spin this
type of techno. i haven't even found an african american female role model
ever. it seems that a lot of female spin house or more housy techno, so i'm
also happy to find female djs spinning more harder or weirder stuff.
currently i'm not djing anymore for reasons beyond my control.

maia

--On Thu, Oct 5, 2000 4:25 PM +0200 fab137 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
 
  As to why more women aren't doing it, it beats me.  Sexism is a factor
  everywhere
 
 One thing I've always noticed is the abnormally high number of males
 compared to females in techno clubs worldwide. I think its just the
 appealI mean it obviusly appeals more to men than women. So
 considering that female djs are already scarce, couple that with the
 macho appeal of technothere you have it! No women djs!
 
 bye
 fab
 
 
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