who knew Fanny, in the 70's, was so good

...real musicianship hasn’t been cool since Punk

generally speaking, in the seventies, female influence and accomplishment in the realm of rock and roll was comparable to its importance in climbing.

Past all that and shifting gears, I'd have to cast my vote for all-time best musician and master of guitar work.......David Gilmour. Hands down!

The evolutionary perspective we take here highlights the fact that team aggression is predominately an activity of young males, and although it affects women it very often does not benefit them in a lasting way, as we will show. Women compete for resources for themselves and their offspring, and may even benefit from associations with the most aggressive, successful male leaders or groups, but their competition is not usually expressed with such violent destructiveness as among men. There are women gangsters, warriors, and terrorists, of course, just as there have been great female military leaders. But despite some fanciful misinterpretations of prehistory and anthropology, women have never shared men's propensity to band together spontaneously and sally forth to viciously attack their neighbors.

The same can be said for older males, who may well gain more from war as generals than the young do as foot soldiers, but who also generally have much more to lose. We will show that societies where the proportion of young males to older males is high are often particularly prone to conflict – and that one way to reduce the risk of violence is to empower women and maximize their role in society.

This is perhaps the most profound insight to come from taking an evolutionary perspective on war: empowering women reduces the risk of violent conflict. Far from being a politically correct notion of feminist philosophy, women's role in reducing the risk of war is born out by rigorous study and historical experience. We will argue that contemporary Western nations have a great opportunity to make the world more secure and reduce terrorism by doing everything they can to empower women who live in countries where they currently enjoy few choices and wield little or no political power.

There is a clear and important evolutionary link between this biological perspective on war and Martha's and my work in family planning. For most women, the first step toward autonomy and equality is the ability to choose when to have children, and how many to have. From Italy to Iran, it is an empirical fact that wherever women have access to modern family planning, family size always falls. This is of crucial interest at a time when rapidly growing human population stresses our infrastructure and social systems, and threatens what remains of the natural environment. Reducing birthrates can also have a dramatic effect on the prospects for peace by reducing competition for resources and lowering the ratio of testosterone-filled young men to older men and women in the population. By understanding this and other biological dynamics underlying war, we can begin to see our way toward taking real, effective action to reduce war's likelihood and limit its destructive potential.

Definitely an astounding technician, le petite juene fille

Soul, melody, blues roots?

Not so much

Great guitarists, and great musicians in general, use changes in tempo and empty space to make their music great.

Blind performance auditions, much research has proven, often results in the hiring of more women and minorities because it eliminates the opportunities for bias to influence who makes the cut.

To simplify, Feminists claim that if men weren’t such dicks, the numbers would be equal. I believe it’s biology in both regards, related to higher testosterone levels in men, and the evidence, so far in human evolution, supports that. I ask for examples that prove the claimed equal performance and enter the condescending ad hominem attacks, tangents and smoke and mirrors.

It’s pretty damn funny really

But then circumstances changed, and commercial whaling all but eliminated great whales precisely because they had to surface in order to breathe air – the same trait went from being highly adaptive, to neutral, to wildly maladaptive, solely because the great whale's environment changed.

We propose that, like the lungs of a whale, the human male predisposition to violence, teen aggression, and war are, in essence, an evolutionary hangover. The impulses behind the behavior must once have given a reproductive advantage to those who express them – and in some cases may still. But culture and conditions have changed while the genes have not, and many of our Stone Age impulses are decidedly undesirable in an Information Age man. The simple fact is that biology has painted us into a behavioral corner, and it's up to us to find a way back out of it. That's where we have the advantage over Wales – they can't stop breathing, but humans could choose to stop fighting wars.

We recognize instincts in other animals, as when a cat or a dog cares for its young, but the word instinct is rather too mechanical to capture the subtlety of human behavior. EO Wilson calls the behavioral frameworks we have inherited *predispositions*, a term we have already used. Sometimes, a single gene can control these tendencies or proclivities. It has been shown for example that the lack of a particular gene in a mouse (and possibly a person) produces a self-destructive fearlessness. Mice lacking the gene run about in the open and climb on prominent objects exposing themselves to cats and other predators instead of hiding. However, most behaviors, such as our desire for sex or our ability to hate our neighbors, depend on complex, shifting interactions between large sets of genes and are influenced by the environment around us.

Jane Goodall observed that male chimpanzees make mistakes and fall out of trees twice as often as female chimpanzees, and that all the falls over ten meters involved males. Human accident statistics also show that young men are twice as likely as young women to break a leg or an arm. Obviously, culture plays an important role (a little girl who is taught to stay at home is unlikely to be run over in the road), but the chimpanzee data does suggest that the predisposition of men to take more risks than women probably also has a biological basis

I will never understand why some women want so badly to be just like men, and why those same women often resent the very men they strive to emulate.

I will never understand why some women want so badly to be just like men

Thelma & Louise is a 1991 American road film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Callie Khouri. It stars Geena Davis as Thelma and Susan Sarandon as Louise, two friends who embark on a road trip with unforeseen consequences.

Numerous critics and writers have remarked on the strong feminist overtones of Thelma & Louise. Film critic B. Ruby Rich praises the film as an uncompromising validation of women's experiences,[11] while Kenneth Turan calls it a "neo-feminist road movie".[12] In her essay "The Daughters of Thelma and Louise", Jessica Enevold argues that the movie constitutes "an attack on conventional patterns of chauvinist male behavior toward females". In addition, it "exposes the traditional stereotyping of male–female relationships" while rescripting the typical gender roles of the road movie genre.

Hole is an American alternative rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California in 1989 by singer and guitarist Courtney Love and lead guitarist Eric Erlandson. The band had a revolving line-up of bassists and drummers, their most prolific being drummer Patty Schemel, and bassists Kristen Pfaff(d. 1994) and Melissa Auf der Maur.

Hole has been noted for being one of the most commercially successful female-fronted rock bands of all time, selling over three million records in the United States alone[2] and having a far-reaching influence on contemporary female artists. Music and feminist scholars have also recognized the band as the most high-profile musical group of the 1990s to discuss feminist issues in their songs, due to Love's aggressive and violent lyrical content, which often addressed themes of body image, abuse, and sexual exploitation.[3]

In the months preceding the band's full formation, Love and Erlandson would write and record in the evenings at a rehearsal space in Hollywood, loaned to them by the Red Hot Chili Peppers;[13] during the day, Love worked as a stripper to support the band and purchase amplifiers and their backline for live shows.[14]

Love and Erlandson began writing new material for a second Hole album in 1992, in the midst of Love's pregnancy with Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. Love's desire to take the band in a more melodic and controlled rock format led bassist Emery to leave the band,[31] and drummer Caroline Rue followed. In an advertisement to find a new bass player, Love wrote: "[I want] someone who can play ok, and stand in front of 30,000 people, take off her shirt and have 'f*#k you' written on her tits. If you're not afraid of me and you're not afraid to f*#king say it, send a letter. No more pussies, no more fake girls, I want a whore from hell."[32] In April 1992, drummer Patty Schemel was recruited after an audition in Los Angeles, but the band spent the remainder of the year without a bassist; Love, Schemel, and Erlandson began to write material together in the interim.[26]

Hole went on to become the most commercially successful female-fronted grunge band in history, selling over 3 million records in the United States between 1991 and 2010.[2][134][135] In spite of Love's often polarizing reputation in the media, Hole received consistent critical praise for their output, and was often noted for the predominant feminist commentary found in Love's lyrics, which scholars have credited as "articulating a third-wave feminist consciousness".[136] Love's subversive onstage persona and public image coincided with the band's songs, which expressed "pain, sorrow, and anger, but [an] underlying message of survival, particularly survival in the face of overwhelming circumstances."[137] Music journalist Maria Raha expressed a similar sentiment in regard to the band's significance to third-wave feminism, stating, "Whether you love Courtney [Love] or hate her, Hole was the highest-profile female-fronted band of the '90s to openly and directly sing about feminism."[138]

While Rolling Stone compared the effect of Love's marriage to Cobain on the band to that of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, they noted that "Love's confrontational stage presence, as well as her gut-wrenching vocals and powerful punk-pop songcraft, made her an alternative-rock star in her own right."[139] Author Nick Wise made a similar comparison in discussion of the band's public image, stating, "Not since Yoko Ono's marriage to John Lennon has a woman's personal life and exploits within the rock arena been so analyzed and dissected."[140] The band has been cited as a major influence on several contemporary artists, including indie singer-songwriter Scout Niblett,[141] Brody Dalle (of The Distillers and Spinnerette),[142] Sky Ferreira,[143] Lana Del Rey,[144] Tove Lo,[145]Tegan and Sara,[146] and the British rock band Nine Black Alps.[147] The band ranked at #77 of VH1's 100 Greatest Hard Rock Artists.[148]

I don’t approach this debate or any other polemically or with any vitriol, Roy, until my opponents continue to refuse to back up their (bs) position, or resort to name calling and ad hominem attacks. That’s when respect dwindles and sarcasm is appropriate. And entertaining, frankly. At least for me.

Buhl and Bonatti are hardly anomalies in the broad spectrum and history of daring male climbers, Mar. Steph, on the other hand, is one of the only women I’ve ever heard of to solo somewhat regularly near her limit, a realm inhabited by lots of male climbers btw.

The point is that in men it isn’t (nearly as) freakish - it’s more natural

I was afraid
I opened my arms and
pushed off

The air filled my wings
and it was all there:

Freedom... wonder... pain...
mystery... magic... joy...

I want it all, I choose it all
I choose to fly

It would be interesting to test her testosterone levels

Women just like being around something dangerous part of the time.

In the pages to come, we will show that for most of history and prehistory, small groups of men who were prepared to attack their neighbors and steal their resources, and who could seduce or coerce women for sex, ended up having more offspring. Women, meanwhile, were more likely to improve their reproductive success – to have more children survive to reproduce themselves – by aligning themselves with successfully violent men rather than by joining raids and risking death themselves.

In a 2008 study of 28 populations over 300 years, British researchers Rebecca Sear and Ruth Mace found that the early death of a father often had "surprisingly little effect" on their offspring's survival, while a mother's death significantly increased childhood mortality. In evolutionary terms, fathers are more expendable than mothers, and thus can afford to take more risks.

If a woman is brilliant in a profession that is dangerous and she becomes a mother, how old do her children have to be before it is acceptable for her to return to work? This is the question that James Ballard had to face after his wife, the mountaineer Alison Hargreaves, died while climbing K2 seven years ago, when their children were aged four and six.

In May 1995, Hargreaves became the first woman to make it to the summit of Everest alone, unsupported and without any artificial oxygen. She received almost universal praise. "One of the greatest climbs in history," declared the front page of the Times. But, just three months later, having successfully reached the summit of K2, Hargreaves died on the way down - and was criticised in the media for having "left" her two children.

Rhythm and blues, soul music, in my opinion ... cuts every single thing ... if you play it for anybody anywhere in the world ...

... they're gonna be tappin' their feet and lookin' to get laid.

If you don't knock that sh#t off, next time you're giving me head I'm going to piss all over you!

if he doesn't stop pissing me off, I'm gonna take a hike up to Bass Lake and hire some angels to beat the schitt out of him