Forum Biz Why don’t we get more broads around here?

Looking at the statistics, young women are buying as many or more new guitars as men. I keep an eye on new releases, and there seems to be an abundant number of female-fronted (if not all-female) punk and indie rock bands releasing albums every week. While there's certainly been some decline in the guitar's popularity, I think rock and roll is still a viable form of fucking off. The decline in new guitar sales is likely more to do with a glut in the used market, than any actual disinterest in instruments. I think forums really aren't as much of a thing as they were, either. Social media is likely a bigger draw for millennials and whatever the generation after them are.

Anyway, as a man living in a household with my wife, two young daughters, and female dog and cat, I consider this a bit of a . . . safe space?
 
it's not whether females buy and play guitars, it's whether they fetishize them. I don't personally know a lot of females who have an obsession about collecting things, buying vintage cars, instruments, motorcycles from their childhood, and talking endlessly about the most tedious minutia of gear like tubes, cords, and wiring harnesses. It's one personality disorder a lot of women don't share with men.
 
I can't see this forum being anything but accepting to female members. :shrug:

I see part of the problem is that we just don't get many new members at all. I think the site is small enough and most people know more than a few members personally, so it probably feels weird to try to jump in here as a noob. Also, message boards are for old people, and doubly so for guitar message boards. We are too uncool for the young hip musicians and don't have enough content to attract them.

DFB said:
We need to provide chocolate.
That will get them here.
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I have connections for that kind of thing.
 
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Tiltsta said:
I can't see this forum being anything but accepting to female members. :shrug:
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The fact that this board is overwhelmingly male is, in and of itself, a disincentive for many female players.

Plus the fact that forums in general are competing with other newer younger social media.

Plus the fact that few people are going to just stumble of this site unless they’re looking for Mark specifically or a guitar teacher in his area, or if they know one of us either personally or from another forum.

Plus the fact that this is a relatively close community, with most of us having been chatting together for at least 10 years, and some of us for closer to 20.
 
Honkridge said:
Cause Sonny is always getting on the couch
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Too late. The couch is fucked.
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Flamencology said:
I don’t think that people have stopped playing. But the market is over-saturated and people are able to find something close to what they want online.
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I've been told by some in the industry that their orders just aren't increasing. There are still plenty of players out there but the Industry isn't growing. DJ and sampling gear on the other hand......
 
baimun said:
I've been told by some in the industry that their orders just aren't increasing. There are still plenty of players out there but the Industry isn't growing. DJ and sampling gear on the other hand......
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Yeah, I meant the used market. Everyone other person on the planet owns a never-played guitar.

I don’t begrudge anyone for making a living. That said... fuck DJs.
 
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As a collective, "we" are the guy their mamas warned them about, except instead of being young, virulent, and sporting long flowing loches of perfectly coiffed hair, we're tubby, balding, middle-aged dudes that only get excited about finally being able to buy a riding mower to save our aching backs from pushing the Toro around the yard every Sunday.
 
I don't know, but maybe things would change if we put the forum on Tinder...seems to be a pretty effective way to attract the female species for one of us...
 
Flamencology said:
I don’t think that people have stopped playing. But the market is over-saturated and people are able to find something close to what they want online.
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I sort of agree with this and disagree at the same time. As I see it, a lot of small music shops survive by providing lessons and selling low cost instruments. I know of one independant shop fairly local to me that sells Taylors & Martins. Outside of the Mass sales tax they are totally competetive with GC. There used to be a shop in southern NH that went nto the online market. The brick & mortar store is gone, but you can order stuff from them on Reverb. What I think is going on is that people go to GC or buy online because they have fewer options locally.
As far as women playing.... I think it's great.
 
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