Where are the girls?
Posted by austinplatt on 13 June 2008 - 1:55pm.
Am I right in saying that the (vast) majority of people blogging on this site are men? The site does have the feeling of conversations in a barber's shop. Am I wrong?
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I get all the girls
I get ALL the girls
That's right
There was a massive row about free jazz going on in Terry's Hair Affair when I was last in for a number 4 all over.
Every Tuesday Afternoon
I am Marjorie. Hey, it's a site with men complaning about lists put together by men about rock music. What's not appealing to women about that?
However, my wife likes The Word. She's had absolutely no time for any other music magazine in the whole of our relationship with teh exception of the Word. Must be that buffed up Johnny Martyn on the cover. Phwoar!
Girls don't talk about music
They've got shoes for that.
Oh Dear
My wife loves the word. Where does yr copy live. Ours is a bathroom buddy, I'm afraid.
The good natured young lady
has asked if at some point it can be promoted to the coffee table. It's not right.
Course it would help...
...if people didn't have asexual usernames.
agree to that
and happy to be sexual. I think thats right.
Aspecial, please.
I'm two small dogs, interestingly, both male.
Hey!
Who are you calling asexual?
Cue...
...barrage of indignant people with gender-specific monikers...
Bathroom here too - no offence
Different reading habits here - the Mrs likes to gobble the whole mag up on arrival, I'm happy to do a bit at a time. But the bathroom is Word's spiritual home - alongside Private Eye, The Guardian Weekend and the terrifying Financial Management Monthly...(her indoors, not mine)
Bathroom Books
WORD, Erotic Review, 1001 Albums To Hear Before You Die, Guardian, Highway Code
Bathroom books, mmmm,...
... does this deserve a thread of its own?
My wife...
is very happy to read Word, I'm just not sure she sees any great necessity to talk about it on t'web afterwards
I think
music mags, web blogs and lists pretty much hits a certain demographic.
Mostly married
We mostly seem to be married too. We are quite a specific demographic.
I'm no women, but...
I am a 16-year old boy, and as such, am not married. So there!
I stand corrected...
..we are diverse and eclectic.
I too have a non gender specific login...
... but as a woman trapped in a mans body I often feel in the minority of Word readers
You're often to be found
You're often to be found feeling the majority of Word Readers?
;)
I AM A WOMAN
Hello. I know quite a lot of women who read Word and enjoy it, although they don't comment on blogs as much because they are ferociously busy, aren't they?
And I hate shoe-buying, Archie. It's the most boring thing in the world. This despite the fact that I am straight and wear eyeliner daily.
Is that
the equivalent of being male and not giving a monkey's about football..?
I realise plenty of women like football, by the way, but it really seems to wrongfoot a lot of blokes if you admit to not knowing anything about it.
That first bit might be me
I'm male and I don't give a monkey's about football, and before assumptions are made I don't much like shoe shopping either.
Which barbers do I need to go to where the conversation is generally on music trivia?
Don't know, Matt
But please tell me as soon as you find it. I'll be there.
"Ferociously busy"?
What happened to the "multi-tasking" we hear so much about then, Rogers? I tell you what, that Peggy Lee would have posted.
yes but you are a taff
so you dont count
(i'm welsh too & was only messing,like, so go easy)
I Am A Man
And I too hate buying shoes. Love buying records though.
I've got a ten quid gift thingy to spend at Amazon.
Should I go for Harvest and After The Goldrush? Or Tonight's The Night and Trans?
Coldplay?
Their quite popular apparently...
HARVEST & AFTER THE GOLDRUSH
He shouted. Or Harvest twice.
The cleverclogs fashionistas would say Tonights the nIGHT.
I prefer Goldrush.
A cleverclogs fashionista writes
You know it could just be that they like Tonights The Night beter 'cos they like it better. I do get a bit tired of this thing about how you must only like that because you want to look cool and hip and if you were being honest you'd prefer this. I am being honest and I do prefer that. Actually I like On The Beach best - that is the really cool one isn't it?
Best cover, certainly
One of my favourites, in fact, and I certainly wouldn't claim to be a big fan of the No. 2 Celebrity Railroad Modeller in America.
'On The Beach'...
is my favourite NY album. I paid a fortune for it on vinyl and then he released it on CD about a month later. Bastard.
On The Beach
His best, I reckon.
But it wasn't being offered as a choice....
O, never mind.
(Sven, uncertain if your post confirms or refutes my assertion, but never mind that also)
Just
questioning the implied assumption that's all. No big deal, though I probably over reacted a bit.
Neil Young albums
How dare you put Tonight's The Night and Trans together...
Buy After The Goldrush or Harvest for the morning after listening to Tonight's The Night, I reckon.
Fifty quid bloke?
This seems the appropriate time and thread to ask: whatever happened to the fifty quid bloke? Is he now the fifteen quid bloke, to get the free postage on Amazon?
50 Quid Bloke
Has spent 50 quid signing up to Amazon Prime, so he doesn't have to worry about postage, no matter how much he spends.
She likes the podcast...
..but she doesn't do forums.
If Elvis Costello would like to continue the theme in song, I'm sure Mrs Skirky would be only too happy to listen to the subsequent track on iTunes and have me read out bits of blog while she enjoys a cheeky Marlboro light perched on the worktop. I know, it's an endearing image, isn't it?
Would JK Rowling
go for 'Harry Potter & the Marlboro Light' as a left field sequel do you think?
my name
is non-gender specific...unless you all think I'm called Emlyn!
In no particular order I like:
Word
Blogs
Shoes
Lipstick
Music
Music
Music
Last time I looked
I was a man.
But I have no time for football. Or shoes.
I enjoy my cloak of anonymity.
Is it possible?
You know, women generally have slightly different tastes to men.
As soon as Word begins featuring the likes of Will Young, Leona Lewis and any chancer from some competition programme (including the Eurovision), then they'll be converting in their droves.
As for that lot, in my opinion, we should defer to the late, great Kenny Everett: "Round 'em up, put 'em in a field... and BOMB THE BASTARDS!"
Eyes to Heaven
The other day , I was quite happily tooling around my itunes, you know, weeding out unwanted and unloved tracks, checking for duplicates, changing playlists and what-not , when my darling wife enquired as to what the bloody hell I was doing , I responded the above. At that she rolled her eyes to heaven and continued with her cleaning/cooking/childcare duties. Women truly are from Venus,or Mars.
The new garden shed
As someone mentioned, most of us seem to be male and married and I would guess between late 30's to early 50's.
Maybe retreating into lists and discussions about music with complete strangers on an internet site is our generation's way of pottering about in the garden shed?
I Am Female Of The Homo Sapien Kind
Am a Jen, Jennie or Jennifer if you want to be formal.
Named after after a Donovan song am approaching that age milestone at the end of the year.
I used to fancy as a young woman, David Hepworth on "The Whistle Test" (a good part of twenty years ago BTW). Thought he was quite dishy too when he interviewed Springsteen!
I have over 2,500 records and the same number in CDs. People think that women/girls didn't collect music? Move over £50 man, £50 woman is here!