I'm a man, and I'm bored as hell with women who sing nothing but "male-centred songs", as you put it. The female performers I was deeply influenced by when I was young were Joan Baez and Buffy Sainte-Marie. They sang about everything, including every sort of social and political issue. More power to them! They were the first 2 performers I really listened to. Then came Bob Dylan...so my holy trinity of music is 2/3 female, even though I'm a male.

Lousy male songwriters, as you say, tend to write about sex, getting drunk, getting high, and about what a big dick they have (figuratively speaking, if not literally). Lousy female songwriters tend to write a lot of sad, drippy love songs.

In both cases...gimme a break! (but the males are even harder to take than the females)

Great songwriters write about everything. Everything in Life. Same as great novelists. They address the deeper issues, and they also write about the fun stuff. Great songwriters do not regard the male (or female) genitalia as "sacred", but merely necessary for an effective sex life and procreation...neither do they denigrate the male or female genitalia out of some sense of hostility.

The "ideal woman" you describe is a totally ridiculous notion, as you clearly agree. In reacting against that notion, please do NOT go and make sweeping generalizations about us men. Some of us are not idiots.

A "war between the sexes" is not a war worth fighting, in my opinion, and will not be supported by those who see other people as people first, and see their gender identity long after that.

Besides, I've lived lives as a man AND lives as a woman numerous times before this present embodiment, so why the hell would I get hung up on being just exclusively one or the other at this point????

EQUALITY, sister! And mutual love and respect. That is what puts us on a good basis.

I have plenty of compassion for any female who busks on a regular basis. Given the levels of ignorance out there, she is bound to have to put up with a lot of unpleasant stuff. As for the police, they intimidate males too. Some people don a uniform just so they can go on a power trip, it seems.