An Angry Marty

'Jessica Hopper leveled the charge that the "third wave" era of emo was sexist. Hopper argued that where bands such as Jawbox, Jawbreaker and Sunny Day Real Estate had characterized women in such a way that they were not "exclusively defined by their absence or lensed through romantic-specter",^[24] contemporary bands approached relationship issues by "damning the girl on the other side ... its woman-induced misery has gone from being descriptive to being prescriptive". Regarding the position of women listening to emo, Hopper went on to note that the music had become "just another forum where women were locked in a stasis of outside observation, observing ourselves through the eyes of others".'
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This small piece of text that I just read angered me. It really did.
I find it rather stupid aswell. I mean, how did this person get the impression that women were being view in a different manner in this wave of emo? I'm sorry, but all waves of emo have sung of the depression associated with the loss of a loved one (whether that be death or dump-age). I fail to see how this third wave of emo differs from the rest in that respect.
Talk like this is what truly scares me. The fact that people are complaining (I'll skim over the fact that it's a woman complaining about apparent sexism, because the rant could go on for longer than any human could cope with) about something which they clearly don't understand and in a context that fails to be in any way relevant.
One aspect that I have long loved about the rock fringes of society is that sex is not a factor. Both sexes can get along and enjoy everything without sex ever being a barrier.
But, as ever, people seem to believe that they need to comment on something that dearly doesn't require it. But that appears to be human nature, to meddle where it isn't needed.