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| quote: | Originally posted by EddieZilker
The article you quoted goes on to say that in spite of brostep being thought of as a predominately male genre, it seems to be popular among women.
Could explain the whole "ear sex" angle she has. |
Actually a funny thing -
I know a girl who I went to high school with who came out as a very butch lesbian (boi) and recently friended me on FB. I've been fascinated, stalking her facebook. Actually she is a massive overshare, so at first it was involuntary, but then I became hooked. She lives in the midwest, in a very homogenous town, with no real LGBT community to speak of. So she hangs out with her lesbros a lot. At least once a week she will post stuff like "mixin' dub (code for brostep) and drinking PBR with ___, ___, &____". The rest of the week she will post about how much she drinks, where she is off skateboarding with her lesbros, or even more common - what celebrity femme she wants to bang at that moment, or how many women she is ogling at a strip club.
I can't help but feel all these stereotypically masculine activities are correlated with brostep.
First of all let me say that I think it's generally ridiculous to describe any listening of music for music itself as gendered in any way. But unfortunately, society is generally ridiculous, and as a result, a lot of music IS loaded with gender roles. It is kind of silly to make the comparison I am making though, because something like going to a strip club is obviously chauvinistic since it deals with women in a very explicit way, whereas brostep doesn't really deal with women as its object.
I suspect that women liking brostep has something to do with the dance and energy aspect of it, but also something to do with a whole 'raunch culture' aspect. Similar to how some women may feel like to be considered 'hot' or 'cool' among their social group they have to do 'bro' things like go to a strip club, or that men will think they are hotter if they make out with their girlfriends, etc. It's a weird kind of 'if you cant beat them join them', post-feminist, reverse-chauvinist kind of mentality. I love a good gender stereotype challenge, but to me this seems less of a challenge and more of a surrender. In a truly liberated, post-feminist world, we might think of college bros dancing to 'femmestep'.
Now I don't know how much all this I described is actually a factor - like I said I think it could be somewhat a factor, but even if it is, it's definitely not all of the factor. Every teenager loves loud noisy music.
That said, it's rare you see girls with grotesquely huge sound systems in their own cars, with all the doors open in the parking lot of their local applebee's, and a blue glow emanating from the bottom of their car. And there is a reason we call it 'Brostep'
Last edited by nefardec on Jun-10-2011 at 15:58
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