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Re: the past 3-4 pages of this thread
I have been on the net since 1991-92.
Nothing changes.
there will always be people who either choose to just share their most juvenile thoughts, or are just plain juveniles, whether of age or of mind.
Part of the "anonimity" of the net is that no one knows how old you are, or what gender you are, or what ethnicity you are, etc.
This leads to a lot of words being typed without thought as to whom they may annoy/disgust/insult, because there is NO WAY to know who your audience is gonna be on any given forum.
This can either be addresssed by never typing or posting anything that may be offensive in the slightest, OR, by posting anything and everything you wish to, letting people deal with their own issues, whether they are offended or not.
It is an individual's medium, which somehow coalesces into a collective medium.
to expect that the SYG forum is gonna somehow reflect the individual personal politics of Sonic Youth is preposterous. SY do not post here (aside from lee and Steve occassionally checking in). They do not moderate here.
I think the fact that anyone can post anything at any time is much more indicative and representative of Sonic Youth's personal politics than whether or not they would be upset at naked ladies, or some poster being mysoginist.
and while that pic of Monica Belucci is risque', it is not anything that would get even a blur on prime time network TV, or even a PG-13 rating on a film.
I hnoestly think the reason it is seemingly imbalanced on the SYG Forum between men and women is that men are typically the more obsessive gender when it comes to their recreations, their pasttimes.
Music is a pasttime, and in the flesh and blood world, it is about the same ration as here.
There arejust that many more men and young men talking about music and playing music and endelssly poring over the minutia of music than there are women. It's not a sexist thing. It is what it is.
There are way more women than men in the world out buying craft supplies, and frequenting the Hobby Lobby forums, but that does not amke it sexist, nor is there any reason to question why that is so.
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