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RE: Women in Brass Bands

I'm sorry!  I can't stay out of this discussion any longer.

To say that excluding women from a band on the basis of their gender isn't
sexist is ludicrous!!  Exclusion on the basis of gender is sexist by
definition!

To try to state that such exclusion is acceptable is reprehensible.  How
would you like it if you belonged to the group being excluded.  What if your
job forced you to move to the USA and we had some stupid rule against
allowing Brits in our bands?  Wouldn't that make you feel angry?  

Who else would you like to exclude?  Jews?  People of African extraction?
Irish?  Scots?  People whose noses are bigger than yours?  Where do you draw
the line?  This sort of discrimination is one of the first steps on the
slippery path that Nazi Germany took, or that of  Slobodan Milosevic in
Yugoslavia!
In America, we make a strong effort to be INCLUSIVE rather than EXCLUSIVE
and generally judge people on their abilities.  My band, the Illinois Brass
Band, would be a much poorer organization without the talents and abilities
of our female members.  Our first two solo cornets and principal
percussionist (to name a few) are women, and amongst the best brass banders
on this continent.  I am proud to be a member of such an organization.
I suggest that you rethink your attitudes toward your fellow brass banders
and humans.  
Guy Clark
solo cornet, Illinois Brass Band

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