Klarinet Archive - Posting 000099.txt from 2009/08

From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: Why women? was Solo pieces by living women composers
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:09:20 -0400

On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:05:19 -0400, John Ranck <drjayjr@-----.com> asked:
> Something I've been curious about. Why, when discussing female
> gender-specific questions to people most folks use the adjective
> "women". Why not "living female composers"? Just curious.

It's interesting to me that you would ask this question. Do the two
terms have a different connotation for you?

In my brain, "female" is a more clinical and detached term. "Women"
seems more personal.

Plus, veering into the inane, "women" implies homo sapiens, thereby
excluding compositions written by females of other species (mole rats,
say), which might be desirable in many cases.

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Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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