Originally Posted by Ruby Slipper

Hi, thanks. Yeah, I hear you. In truth, I was a member of this forum several years ago under a different username. I hung around as long as I could, but as is the case with most music forums or chat groups where I've spent time, there was a lot of typical 'bro' stuff going on - overt, sometimes covert and unintentional sexism, but still sexism nonetheless, and a lot of overt lookism. Rather than focusing on the musical talent of the female-identified musicians they admired, some people just focused on looks. Yeah, that's par for the course all over the interwebs, but I was hoping to find a respite from some of that in a forum devoted to music discussion. It didn't feel like a home for me, so I moved on. I returned with the hopes that maybe things have changed a little. We'll see. I'd like to meet more women with similar taste in music.