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How Not To Write About Female Music Fans

Michael Hann, in the Guardian, about Gaslight Anthem:

The girls in the front row at the Middle East in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are gazing up at Brian Fallon, singing every word back at him.

There were no men in the audience doing the same thing? Because at most Gaslight shows I go to, the entire audience is singing every single word back at the band. And what were the men in the audience looking at? Were they reading their email or something?

Finally, unless the females were under the age of 12, adult women should be referred to as such.

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    yeah, eat shit, guy
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    Very interesting perspective
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    paging gazingmales
  7. jumonz reblogged this from jukeboxgraduate and added:
    You can have a vagina and you can be a superfan, BUT… Caryn Rose has some (good) thoughts on this.
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