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A Girls' Club in the Arts? Girls dominated performance at local talent showcase
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| April 22, 2004
| Bobby Chang
Posted on 04/27/2004 10:59:37 AM PDT by Bobby Chang
Is there any wonder why most people in the performing arts are women today? At a recent talent showcase for the South Carolina Festival of Roses, the Double X chromosome had 8 out of 12 performers, and there were just two male performers, one mixed "step" show, and a group of young boys who danced and tried to "sing". The women dominated, with dance, gymnastics, and vocals. What has happened to men? Are they being pushed to the sidelines in the performing arts because of "sissiness" or is it a product of sports "equality"? Furthermore, it seems dance is replacing vocals as the dominant performing art among local girls (guys don't make any difference), as the beauty queen was "clogging" to the cheesy Europop version of "Cotton Eye Joe" by "Rednex" (can I call for the Oval Office?) (thankfully I don't have to worry about hearing that song again until October), and female dancers are dangerously close to exposing their belly button in today's outfits.
Today's young singers are HEAVILY relying on soundtracks and microphones in their singing, something I don't understand being classically trained myself. They need to work on projecting their voice using their diaphragms. There was one delay in the programme for a soundtrack malfunction. I just shook my head and said to myself after seeing the rash of soundtracks, "Now we have THIS? This isn't a karaoke bar. Whatever happened to accompanists? Where's Marion Sprott (pianist) when you need her?"
If you're a guy, you have no way to do anything. You have become the weaker sex and now are relegated to the sidelines. It's all about having girls in performing now. Guys don't stand a chance in today's girl-heavy world of the arts. Seems today's kids would rather dance or sing to commercial popular music today. The local Civic Ballet used an all-girl performance themed to music from Lennon and McCartney. Oh give me a break considering they were huge hippies and promoted Transcendental Meditation, which is taught in Augusta (GA) schools, and other wacky New Age ideas.
The only decent singer was classical and she told me she's on a one-year vocal rest. Still that and doing this? Oh dear. Real singers use orchestras or pianists, and don't use microphones.
Now that the girls dominate the arts, they're taking over the ballfields. Laws are now designed to wean guys off the playing field, and it's been working (I remember a classmate in my Social History Thesis talk about Title IX -- he was a wrestler who left that school in anger after feminists eliminated selected men's Olympic Sports programmes.). The local gymnastics teacher says she wants to start a boys' programme but the lack of programmes caused by Title IX has hurt her cause.
Are the only male performers left the thug rappers which irritate Bill O'Reilly?
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: arts; dance; feminism; men; questions; singers; titleix; vocal; women
I thought Title IX, like in sports, drove men out of the arts, but my voice teacher told me it was the "sissy" factor when I asked her why guys are being put to the sidelines in the arts the way they've been pushed to the sidelines in sports by Title IX.
I'd like to hear your thoughts.
To: Bobby Chang
Hmm..
Not sure what to comment on this.
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04/27/2004 12:26:46 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Fortune for the day: Beware, my coffee has become weaponised and was used to take down net servers.)
To: Bobby Chang
Yes, I agree.
Until we start fighting the feminazi multicultural save a village crap, our whole country is going down the drain.
It's not just the arts programs, it's everywhere.
Turn on the television. (I know. Yuck. But just do it.) Wait for an ad that portrays a sympathetic child. Nine times out of ten it is a girl. Now wait for an ad that portrays a devilish or mean child. Nine times out of ten it is a boy.
In the new regime, boys are evil.
This is partly because so many fathers are absent parents. Law and politics are arrayed against the family, too.
We responsible adult men need to step in and act as mentors. That's all we can do today. Ultimately, we have to reverse the court-directed screwed up family policy that encourages divorce and family separation.
And we need to promote masculine pride. Being a man is not just playing a sport or shooting a gun, though those are very important, and men do them better than women. Being a man is using your brain, both your rational thinking and your creative thinking.
And being a creative man does not mean you get tattoos and piercings, do drugs, and vote for wuss candidates. Being creative is consistent with Ernest Hemingway, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lewis and Clark, the Wright Brothers, and so on.
The whole of the intellectual class has become feminized, and that is not good. We need to promote masculine intellectualism.
Both men and women have value. Just as men are starting to show more respect for women, women must now show more respect for men.
And if you're relationship is screwed up, try to talk to one of your wife's friends or relatives and get her a copy of Dr. Laura's book on Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands.
If everyone listened to a little Dr. Laura, it would be much better.
Finally, if you haven't read this, do so.
http://www.kimdutoit.com/dr/essays/essays.php?id=P2327
To: rogueleader
Some of today's feminist philosophies are designed to create male-unfriendly places everywhere, and you see it when they're being sent off.
To: Bobby Chang
Many young men were only able to afford college based on wresling scholarships. Title IX nazis sought to elimininate wrestling first. Now there are fewer and fewer men having access to sports scholarships.
HOWEVER womens rowing teams are in full bloom , no experience required (or water). 20/20 had an article on in with a NUTJOB law professor from on on FL two new law schools.The new on in Jacksonvile, Coastal I believe. Forget the well known law schools, what are the 6th tier law professors teaching future lawyers? (s) o wait, women are going to be the majority of law students. Affirmative actions/quotas only works one way.(/s)
To: longtermmemmory
Exactly my point on the Title IX nazis. My voice teacher said it was "sissiness" of the men.
But I do wonder sometimes because I've studied it in school, and in the old days, men were dominant in opera. But now with a lack of respect by people of classical, baroque, and even older music other than the 1950's rock movement, something is truly wrong.
Many young men went to college on scholarships based on need, and sports were just to help pay for scholarships. Now that avenue is gone thanks to these freaks. It's golf and a slew of Olympic sports which has been affected most -- soccer (men), wrestling, gymnastics (men), rifle, fencing, track, and baseball, sports where the United States has been hurt by Title IX cutting programmes, with the first two on the list the Americans FAILING to qualify in 2004.
But you have to wonder what's in their mind.
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