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Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Pink: Women Have Been "Stepping Up" Forever
The Mary Sue: Singer Pink took to Twitter to express her anger after the Recording Academy president, Neil Portnow, said that female artists need to “step up” if they want equal representation at the Grammys.
CALL HIM OUT PINK!!!! I love women that empower other women and Pink has just done that. Portnow is absolutely not allowed to say that women are not stepping up and that’s why they’re disproportionately represented in the music industry, because they’ve been more than stepping up to just get into the recording studio and to find themselves in any sort of position of power. ANother article I read said that only 2% of the industry’s producers are female which automatically makes it an “untraditional role for women,” because it’s less than 15%. That is such bull because if the other 98% of the music industries producers are male, that means they are giving title positions to more males. To say that women aren’t stepping up is like saying there’s no gender gap. It’s blatantly false, and entirely unfair. I got paid 75 cents less at my last job than a male coworker that worked there for less time than I did. The pay gap is real and so is the gender gap.
“Women need to step up”. Wow that is a low blow. It’s not the women who need to step up. Women in the industry have been stepping up over and over again. Like the article said woman have been stepping up for themselves and for the future of the women in the music industry for years, and now a man in power is telling them that they need to. No, he has no place to tell them that. And him saying that is putting the responsibility on them for not getting the recognition that they deserve not placing the responsibility on some committee that is old and outdated and can’t see that their ways are antiquated and that they need to start recognizing art for the beauty in it not for the persons gender or skin color or sexual identity or religion that created it. If you asked for a solution to change this double standard in the music industry, I couldn’t give you a possibility, outside the fact that the industry needs to wake up and see that the times have changes and equality needs to be something that they strive for not whatever patriarchal crap they have going for them right now.
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CALL HIM OUT PINK!!!! I love women that empower other women and Pink has just done that. Portnow is absolutely not allowed to say that women are not stepping up and that’s why they’re disproportionately represented in the music industry, because they’ve been more than stepping up to just get into the recording studio and to find themselves in any sort of position of power. ANother article I read said that only 2% of the industry’s producers are female which automatically makes it an “untraditional role for women,” because it’s less than 15%. That is such bull because if the other 98% of the music industries producers are male, that means they are giving title positions to more males. To say that women aren’t stepping up is like saying there’s no gender gap. It’s blatantly false, and entirely unfair. I got paid 75 cents less at my last job than a male coworker that worked there for less time than I did. The pay gap is real and so is the gender gap.
“Women need to step up”. Wow that is a low blow. It’s not the women who need to step up. Women in the industry have been stepping up over and over again. Like the article said woman have been stepping up for themselves and for the future of the women in the music industry for years, and now a man in power is telling them that they need to. No, he has no place to tell them that. And him saying that is putting the responsibility on them for not getting the recognition that they deserve not placing the responsibility on some committee that is old and outdated and can’t see that their ways are antiquated and that they need to start recognizing art for the beauty in it not for the persons gender or skin color or sexual identity or religion that created it. If you asked for a solution to change this double standard in the music industry, I couldn’t give you a possibility, outside the fact that the industry needs to wake up and see that the times have changes and equality needs to be something that they strive for not whatever patriarchal crap they have going for them right now.
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