Just fancied a rant. Never really taken feminism to heart, although have always shouted and soap boxed about unfairness etc.
My dd has music lessons and talking to her teachers and dh who is also a musician. I have learned some awful things about how women are treated and perceived.
Ok whilst I never agreed I always knew that tv presenters, dancers, singers etc had a certain career length. But ffs instrumentalists not on the front line, but sitting in an orchestra or band.
I know several have been told by MD's they are there because they have tits, or long blonde hair. They are eye candy, and nobody seems aware of the fact they can fucking well play fantastically.
I am so gob smacked, some artists only book female players, which one would think great, it stops it being a male dominated profession. I know who was told she was getting a bit chubby and had she considered surgery.
I know to many this will not be new, but I am totally arghhhh!. Are we to put our dds off a life in music or entertainment then? It doesn't seem right to encourage it when these are the attitudes they will find.
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OMG eyes opened is all I can say.
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morethanpotatoprints · 28/01/2013 12:57
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