Headdesk

[shewhomust]

I don't know whose idea it was that the audience for Sounds of the 60s would not be attracted to a programme about Peggy Seeger promoted on her own merits, but the trailer they broadcast began by telling us that all her life she has been surrounded by remarkable men: Woody Guthrie was a visitor to her parents' house, her half-brother was Pete Seeger, her husband...

And so on. She was, in short, "inspirational" - which is code for "interesting only for her part in other people's work."

In the background I could hear a voice defiantly singing "I'm gonna be an engineer!"

Comments

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

The problem with defining as the shadow of a bunch of important men is that her own voice is pretty defiant.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

The description of the program itself sounds OK, but someone clearly thought they had to sell it to us this way.

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

I'm seeing a lot of that round right now, alongside a lot more racism and etc. If this is the pattern of the current decade, I would very much like some nice new protest voices to sing against it.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Argh. That is just.... Argh.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

From the department of 'what *were* they thinking?'

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

I've been around the folk scene for years (decades) enough to have met a lot of powerful women.

Shame these programme makers don't seem to have met the same people I have without a man in sight.

[grondfic.livejournal.com]

cmcmck -

Hope you don't mind - I Friended you on the grounds of fellow folk-sceners.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Welcome aboard!

[grondfic.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Not at all. I'll friend back as I keep my blog f-locked.

[sovay]

all her life she has been surrounded by remarkable men: Woody Guthrie was a visitor to her parents' house, her half-brother was Pete Seeger, her husband...

Well, that's . . . no.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Exactly.