Date: 2010-04-12 02:26 pm (UTC)
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The reason I asked the question "Why don't girls who like ballads become critics?" rather than "Why don't people who like ballads become critics?" - though obviously the latter question is more accurate - is that asking the latter question might produce the answer, "Well, most people who become critics are white males, and they have blind spots for the music of girls and women and nonwhites etc.," which is true, but ducks the question I want to ask, which is why does the class or category of people that writes about music - a class or category that includes nonwhites and women, though not nearly enough - not like ballads? So asking the question my way - "Why do women rock critics hate ballads? Did they always hate ballads - most teenybopper girls like ballads - or did they learn to hate ballads? If the former, why don't girls who like ballads become critics?" - throws my question in the reader's face. My assumption is that if I don't throw this question in people's faces, they'll evade it, as they always do. Not that they won't evade it anyway.

(And yeah, obviously not everyone who doesn't vote ballads hates ballads, but in the aggregate there's a shutting of ballads out of the discussion, and a shutting out of the people who make and listen to ballads as well, though obviously people who listen to and make ballads also listen to and make nonballads. But, you know, for some people ballads are bread and butter.)
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