I read this article in The Huffington Post today. If you don't want to click the link it's by Emma Jackson who was in indie band 'Kenickie'. The article is about the sexism she received in the music industry back in the 90's but also how even now, in 2015, the contribution to Britpop by female artists has been largely ignored by the recent BBC documentary 'Music for Misfits'.
However, one part of her article really bothers me:
As a young woman in a band I was patronised by sound men, literally kicked by roadies who saw us sitting down in a corridor and assumed we were groupies when we were locked out of our dressing room at Brixton Academy (The Ramones' roadies. Joey Ramone came and apologised afterwards. He was a sweetheart).
So is kicking a groupie acceptable? Is her point that she was mistaken for a groupie the sexist bit, or the kick? And why did Joey Ramone have to apologise, why didn't the roadies have to?
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Left confused by article about sexism in the music industry.
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JimmyCorkhill · 20/10/2015 09:39
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