Gonzo wrote: * | Sun Jan 21, 2018 11:12 am |
Step back a few steps Gonzo and look at the wider picture
I've been thinking about this... Seems that you want to make me seen something that I haven't noticed yet. Yet, I don't think I see what you mean...
There are a number of things going on here, as per usual..
One is, this is not about a music festival, similar things are also going on in various workplaces across many lands and in society at a more general level.
Gonzo wrote: * | Sun Jan 21, 2018 11:12 am |
Maybe I am getting a little paranoid... But it seems to me that there are a lot more men in bands anyway. Maybe I am wrong, but men just seem to be a little bit more pro-active in forming bands and getting on stage to perform their music. Yet no one is actively stopping women to do the same thing.
It would seem that way.
If I can draw a parallel, STEM fields.
Gonzo wrote: * | Sun Jan 21, 2018 11:12 am |
To me it seems very artificial to have a rule that there should be at least 50% women on stage. Shouldn't it be about the most talented people, who make the best music? Regardless of gender, race or nationality?
Is this as artificial as saying that 50% of your employees have to be women?
or 30% or 40% or any arbitrary number...
I'll mention STEM again.
Gonzo wrote: * | Sun Jan 21, 2018 11:12 am |
Shouldn't it be about the most talented people, who make the best music? Regardless of gender, race or nationality?
You included the magic word 'should'...
One would think in a balanced fair and open world that it would be about talent, drive and other things, as you say regardless of age, race, gender, nationality, social status etc....
The question is: do we live in that world?
I will quote the translation given above:
"The content, the artistic, is at the top, but at the same time it is important to keep in mind that this discrepancy exists."
Ignore everything before the 'but'
Gonzo wrote: * | Sun Jan 21, 2018 11:12 am |
Do you mean that women would never blame themselves or their own gender?
Why would they, when some other groups offer themselves as sacrificial lambs as soon as they can.
Just think, say for example they get their way and 50% of represented performers on stage are women... If that number is an artificially chosen and picked for one, and they are currently way below 50%, then one would think that they would have to exclude some acts in order to add more female acts.. exclude some male acts by definition.
So some acts who qualified for the lineup are going to be excluded to include some female group or act to 'make up the numbers'.
How does that sit?
Another option is that they are proposing that women are actively being selected against and excluded from the lineup currently...
Again, think of the parallels in workplaces currently and across the whole of social media.
A shower thought... what happens in a few years when the ratio is over 50% and there are say 70% female acts on stage, do you think they would remove some and add some male ones to take it back to their 50%?