Why are there no female drummers?

My theory is that they evacuated the planet before it's about to be recycled. 

Edited by Slartibartfast - April 02 2011 at 11:14

jean-marie wrote: Slartibartfast wrote: My theory is that they evacuated the planet before it's about to be recycled.  so we're about to hold our sex life in hand

Oh and by the way, it's my sad duty to inform you there's been a four foot restriction in humanoid height.

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Edited by Pekka - April 02 2011 at 14:45

Slartibartfast wrote: jean-marie wrote: Slartibartfast wrote: My theory is that they evacuated the planet before it's about to be recycled.  so we're about to hold our sex life in hand Oh and by the way, it's my sad duty to inform you there's been a four foot restriction in humanoid height.

          the sex too?     

More of a percussionist, but Sue Hadjopoulos:
OK I should take that back:
Dual drummer arrangement so not enough focus on Sue.



Edited by Slartibartfast - April 02 2011 at 21:09

Peter wrote:  Legend has it, there was at least one female drummer, as far back as the Napoleonic wars:   Female Drummer (as recorded by Steeleye Span, 1971) I was brought up in Yorkshire and when I was sixteen I walked all the way to London and a soldier I became cho:    With me fine cap and feathers, likewise me rattling drum         They learned me to play upon the ra-ba-da-ba-dum         With me gentle waist so slender, me fingers long and small         I could play upon the ra-ba-dum the best of them all And so many were the pranks that I saw upon the breech And so boldly did I fight me boys although I'm but a wench And they buttoned then up me trousers so up to them I smiled To think I'd live with a thousand men and a maiden all the while And they never found my secret out until this very hour When they sent me out to London to be sentry at the Tower When a young girl fell in love with me and she found that I's a maid She went out to me officer me secret she betrayed He unbuttoned then my red uniform and he found that it was true "It's a shame", he says "to lose a pretty drummer boy like you" So now I must return to me mum and dad at home And along with me old comrades no longer can I roam Seriously, re the relative dearth of the fairer sex behind the skins, perhaps it's because girls don't usually like to hit, but wound with words -- they have many more singers!   Actually seriously, thinking about it: likely societal/cultural AND biological factors are at work. (See also explorers, philosophers and mathematicians....) Individuals are individuals, but broadly speaking, the sexes are different. That's okay, no?

You should read "Monstrous Regiment" by Terry Pratchett, in which a woman joins the army to look for her brother. She joins a recruiting party led by an old sergeant, and one by one all new recruits turn out to be women. who joined the army for various reasons. When they are finally admit to being women they get into trouble because they have been more successful in battle than the rest of the army, and they even have to face a court martial. But it turns out that about half the officers at the court martial are women  too, and even the old and famous sergeant who is feared for his skills in battle turns out to be a woman.

Peter wrote: Seriously, re the relative dearth of the fairer sex behind the skins, perhaps it's because girls don't usually like to hit, but wound with words -- they have many more singers!   Actually seriously, thinking about it: likely societal/cultural AND biological factors are at work. (See also explorers, philosophers and mathematicians....) Individuals are individuals, but broadly speaking, the sexes are different. That's okay, no?

What ?
I mean, it's a confusing statement: what do you mean ? What role are the "biological factors" playing in this story about explorers, philosophers and mathematicians?

If the sexes are different (next time I checked, I could see a noticeable difference between what men have in their own trousers and what women have in their own trousers), it... Er, yeah, I guess it's okay, but... No, frankly, what do you mean???

Triceratopsoil wrote: ^ he means that bouncing breasts get in the way

And when a man spends one hour or two sitting behind the drums, what is flattened and painful?

Epignosis wrote: I once dated a female drummer, but she would never let me get to first bass! (Ba-dum-crash).

Edited by Dick Heath - April 04 2011 at 08:10

Dick Heath wrote: Epignosis wrote: I once dated a female drummer, but she would never let me get to first bass! (Ba-dum-crash).   Do you mean you never had a  roll on the drums?   (paradiddle)

Did she try to snare him?