"Definitions throw light on the best and worst in human nature, the desire to cherish and preserve and to place on a pedestal and make untouchable. One detects the lack of a female touch and the pragmatism and immediacy that touch brings."

As a man I say we let the chicks tell us what a folk song is." 'glueman', 14th May 09 - 6:38 AM

Glueman you really do 'take the biscuit'! So far, in order to persuade us that the 1954 definition is rubbish and that folk song is anything you say it is you've tried:

- To send us on a guilt trip because of your hurt feelings (Ahh! Diddums!). Although it sounds like over-dramatisation, foot-stamping and paranoia because you can't get your own way to me.

- To accuse us of being political reactionaries who patronise the singers as you maintain the collectors did.

- To accuse us of being supporters of Victorian romanticism.

- To blind us with science by occasionally lapsing into impenetrable 'academic speak'.

- To directly insult some of us who don't agree with you.

And all that having failed NOW you attempt a feminist critique!

What next? Air strikes?