Women's HearMe?

Subject: RE: Women's HearMe?
From: alison
Date: 04 Jul 00 - 04:17 AM

Oh I see!!!!! so I'm Pushy now!!!!!!

hahahaha

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Women's HearMe?
From: Bugsy
Date: 04 Jul 00 - 04:22 AM

Pushy's not the word! They don't call you "BIG AL" for nothing you know!

Cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: Women's HearMe?
From: alison
Date: 04 Jul 00 - 04:38 AM

hahaha

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Women's HearMe?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Jul 00 - 05:59 AM

Would a HairMe for people who don't shave their chins be acceptable?

People who do shave their chins would be welcome to listen, but only non-shavers would get to sing...It'd have to be a honour thing, of course, since it'd only be sound at this stage of the technology. A bit exclusive maybe, but you couldn't call it sexist.

Subject: RE: Women's HearMe?
From: Bugsy
Date: 04 Jul 00 - 07:28 AM

I think that's a great idea McGrath, and it's not even gender specific. At least not in a lot of folk clubs I've been to in my time!

Cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: Women's HearMe?
From: The Shambles
Date: 04 Jul 00 - 09:07 AM

I think that some people could call it sexist? (smoles)

It's just your clever way (as a non-shaver of course) of sneaking in to the women's only Hearme sessions.

Kevin could you take your pedant's hat off for a while and help me phrase the question, so I could receive an answer? For even if the analogy is not spot on, I am pretty sure you can work out what I am trying to ask.

What I am trying to do is address the question that you posed quite early in the thread, about why some groupings were OK, others not and how you could deal with the latter?

You more recently touched on the relative strengths of groupings, in the power sense and also that some groupings that were not related to power issues at all. I think that is at the heart of the problem we are having here.

For I think that this suggestion was a strange mixture of a grouping for both power (from an assumed weak lobby) and what I referred to earlier as a request for 'an indulgence' (because it would be nice).

Along with all the baggage of the real or assumed criticism of the present system and their male participants, it also had the additional complication (for me) of also being for the purpose of making music defined only by what it was excluding.

Unfortunately the emphasis to later entrants to the thread appeared to be a question of 'WHAT'S WRONG' with the suggestion. Rather than 'WHAT'S RIGHT' with it.

Maybe it would have been better to decide first:…. If it was necessary (to rectify a power imbalance)…. If it would just be nice and then if it was a desirable precedent to make?

Would it be OK to have a blues HearMe session and exclude all non-blacks? Maybe Max should answer that one?

Subject: RE: Women's HearMe?
From: The Shambles
Date: 04 Jul 00 - 09:13 AM

This one is getting a little big. There is room to continue this, if you wish, on this one. Are you a lumper or a splitter?

Subject: RE: Women's HearMe?
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Jul 00 - 02:02 PM

I think we should have a Shower HearME; drag our mics in and turn it up! The acoustics would be great and Spider Tom is really good at holding the soap!**BG**

Subject: RE: Women's HearMe?
From: Helen
Date: 04 Jul 00 - 08:19 PM

Hi all,

I feel obliged to tell you that I am getting really frustrated here.

I'm standing in the hallway of a big folk festival (cyber) venue, and there's a whole bunch of vacant session rooms available, ready and waiting on HearMe. There is also a whole bunch of people hanging about waiting to get into one of these session rooms to share some music, fun, laughter and song, and what have we got? A picket line out the front of the rooms with another huge bunch of people arguing the toss about whether or not we should be allowed to have a session.

The session room for "Arguing the Toss" is down the hall, first on your left. Please excuse me while I head in here to the Women's Session room. Anyone ready for some music?

Helen

Subject: RE: Women's HearMe?
From: GUEST,Barfy
Date: 04 Jul 00 - 10:23 PM

Oremus: Shambles, qui nobis sub foro mirabili, passionis tuae memoriam reliquisti: tribue, quaesumus, ita nos corporis et sanguinis tui sacra mysteria venerari, ut redemptionis tuae fructum in nobis iugiter sentiamus. Qui vivis et regnas in saecula saeculorum.

Oh Shambles you are boredom personified. You just drone on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and one and on.

At least Harpgirl and others got that right.

Subject: RE: Women's HearMe?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 04 Jul 00 - 10:30 PM

Well Helen, why not pop into the room where, normally somebody just announces "I am here - want to join me" and others just drop in - it happens most nights - 7 in now?

Jon

Subject: RE: Women's HearMe?
From: Helen
Date: 05 Jul 00 - 10:05 PM

Thanks Jon,

It's a bit difficult with time zones - being over here in Oz - to just pop in, but I'm hoping that the Sunday night arrangement for this week is still on. I suppose it depends on whether Aine gets her HearMe room set up, which I am sure she will.

Helen

Subject: RE: Women's HearMe?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 05 Jul 00 - 10:29 PM

Helen, there should be no problem there. I don't know how far Aine has got yet but I am keeping my page up and running until she is ready to take over.

Jon