Klarinet Archive - Posting 000101.txt from 2009/08

From: corvo di bassetto <rab@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Why women? was Solo pieces by living women composers
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:10:32 -0400

Exactly, I don't refer to my spouse as "my female"!

best,
danyel

On Aug 13, 2009, at 11:09 PM, Tim Roberts wrote:

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