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Re: Women in Brass Bands

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Subject: Re: Women in Brass Bands
From: Peter Younghusband <monkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 16:32:18 +0800
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Rod wrote:

> Monkey, and a good many other males, apparently, do not like women in their
> bands. So what!
>
> It isn't sexist, per se, and nobody has suggested that women players are not
> as good as or better than any of the males.

Goodness gracious - where has this sensible reply come from............oh
yeah...........a bloke!!!!

;-)

> They do not need a reason, but
> if the members of an all male band were to give reasons they might all be
> different! Some might even say that their wives were not happy about women
> in the band, a lot of Navy wives do not like Wrens being at sea with their
> husbands.

I can back that up - I know of blokes who would have left bands that let women
in not because they wanted to (far from it!!!) but because their wives would
have. Some of you might sau old fashioned again, but if a wife has been used to
her husband going out three times a week to band and then they suddenly got
women in.........work it out for yourselves.

> I didn't hear a great fuss from the men excluded from the Ivy Benson Big
> Band, and was there not also an all female JSVB style ensemble a year or two
> back.

Funny that - neither did I!

> ....... and I also don't have a problem with any females who
> want to start their own exclusive band.

Which is just what Trinity Girls did a few years ago. Good on 'em.

Monkey

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