All posts tagged "Yoko Ono"

Silvana has an interesting follow-up to the explosion of anger following her hilarious rant on Dude Music. As follow-ups go---especially those that address a wave of men getting angry when they experience even a sliver of what many to most women consider a normal part of our everyday lives---this one is true to form: serious, thoughtful, kind-hearted. For the men angrily demanding legalistic definitions of Dude Music, she comes closer, basically talking about the way that B and C level musical acts get taken more seriously if they're male-dominated than A level acts that center the female voice/experience. As I noted to her at the time, this is such a major issue that often fans will rewrite the artistic history male musicians/bands to discount the influence women had on them. For instance, the influence that female musicians had on singers like Joey Ramone, Kurt Cobain, or Mick Jagger is often pointedly ignored. And nothing creates more angst than a male musician of some stature who actually marries someone who does more than stand behind him smacking a tambourine.

I was really impressed by Cara's four part piece on how the demonizing of Yoko Ono is a classic tale of how racism and sexism work out culture. Here's the first part. Before you start flipping out and saying that you hate Yoko Ono for reasons that are pure and have nothing to do with the social punishments meted out to Japanese women who are perceived as uppity, please read the four posts. It's well worth your time.