I think we're not talking about folk music here. We're talking about female relationship songwriters, not singers of stories about "us" (male, female, young, old, political,social, etc as in the tradition) but about "I". I had some sing before me a couple of times in Canada and frankly, they were appalling. There sexuality is not the issue, it's their content.They appeared to sing through the guitar hole and into their navel.It was like some singing TV discussion progs that swamp our TV now. Confess!!Feel!! Empathise!!Cry with me!! It's got us singer/songwriters a bad name as we've discussed on other threads.