Female-only folk.

[nonethefewer]

I remember a bit from the book Cunt by Inga Muscio, where she encourages the reader to spend a year only reading female authors, only going to female-owned businesses, and so forth.  It's a good idea, but I couldn't do it.  I know me well enough to know that there are things I want to do that would insanely benefit me that I don't get around to, so conceptual things like this?  Ha ha ha, ha.

Not to mention, I have comfort books, books I've reread a zillion times because I like the story and I'm comfortable with it.  I understand that the point of these sorts of things is to push one out of one's comfort zone, but… I dunno, maybe I'm bad at activism.  *shrugs*

Anyhow but, I do listen to Pandora Radio all day.  I have two stations on it – one for classical music (!!), and one for everything I like forever (in order to confound PR).  So, I made a new station, that'll just have female artists on it.  That means blended-gender bands (like Prozac For Lovers, I think) don't get in, either – female-only or bust.  (It doesn't mean female-only artists automatically get a thumbs-up.  See also certain Alanis Morissette songs.)  I seeded it with Poe, Garbage, and Aimee Mann, as those are three female-only artists I could remember off-hand.

I make no resolutions, because I am bad with follow-through.  But I am going to leave this station on here at work, and when I'm at home, and I'll continue to restrict it to female-only artists, and we'll see.

So far, holy crap there's a lot of stuff I forgot I loved.  Like "Ready To Go" by Republica, and "Cannonball" by The Breeders.  And there are a couple of songs that are already dead awesome, like a cover of "Spooky" by Imogen Heap, and "All The Things She Said" by t.A.T.u.

*hums*

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.