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Re: Women in Brass Bands

To: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Women in Brass Bands
From: Robin Oye <rlopmo@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:15:36 -0400
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Robin McCubbin wrote:

> A standard of playing is gender neutral, set the bar/standard, measure
> against it and don't diminish the quality for any reason.

By this reasoning, the standard is, indeed RAISED when one ceases discriminate
against a part of the population.  After all, when you have, say, an all-male
band, you've already made sure that qualified players can't get in by virtue of
being female,  and you have likely allowed inferior players in as a result of
excluding people on the basis of gender.. I find it ironic when the "lower-the
bar" argument is trotted out against anyone trying to be inclusive rather than
exclusive.  To put it another way, a Black professor I know pointed out that the
most pervasive affirmative action programme ever employed was the one that
allowed only white males into professions, trades, universities, etc.

>
> ... to appeal to 'political correctness' or to appease sexual
> orientation.

The only "political correctness" I have seen in all of this discussion is the
political correctness of the antedeluvian, male, conservative variety.

Robin Oye
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