Women

In a paper counterpart to this blogging I was going on about people I like, as opposed to my usual people I have contempt for. After a short amount of writing and a short list of people it became apparent that I did not have any women on that list. The list was made up of not people I know but mainly artists as well as singers, authors and other such pop culture nonsense.

Why no ladies? Is it me or are they as unrepresented or limitedly represented as hard line feminism says they are? Surely there must be some name I can pull out of my head that would fulfill this missing piece(s).

Maybe it is enough to say i do not identify with women often as I am not a woman. That seems simplistic. I like say...Frida Kahlo well enough but have no real sense of who she was. I certainly am sure that Diego Rivera was a pompous ass but I still like him in a way that I don't like F.K. I can't come up with any actresses that I like if you discount have some kind of crush on them, not that I don't think there aren't any talented actresses out there. Again this is a list of people I like not a list of people I don't dislike.

Actually I don't think there were any singers on that list at all. Surely I could come up with some. For example, I like the music of Paul Simon and Billy Bragg but I think I would only like only B.B. in person (though P.S. seems subdued enough that he could be all right). There are certainly plenty of women and men whose music, playing or voices I enjoy but that has nothing to do with who they are and me thinking that I might like them as people.
That does bring up the point that all of this is moot if I never met nor will I meet them.

Let me back track, at the time I was mainly, for no good reason, focusing on painters and other artists. I started, I think, with Robert Crumb not because I like his art work but because I felt I could see a loving hand in his work. This mean a lot to me, I am willing to trade off talent and skill for NOT being an asshole. There are enough assholes in the world AND enough smart people. i think we need more loving hands.
With that said I was hard pressed to come up with many women names for my "loving hand" list. I am certain this is a lack on my part but it also emphasizes, I think, how women can only seem to make a place for themselves if they play it a certain way. They need to be about gender or sex or some other thing that usually deflects their passion. The list of males who lack the love in question includes majority of people I will ever hear of but that is just life. There must be some out there who, because of or despite how life is, still sneak through.

At this point I lost the thread of what I am saying. I do know that I wanted to end on how I intend to follow up on this to see if by paying better attention I can circumvent this issue and add to my list some name that deserve to be there but I have otherwise over looked. If not, c'est la vie.