花が咲いた
最近家の中にある植物の花が開き始めた。何か寒くなってきたときに花が咲いてくれると、とっても嬉しい :D
なので思わず朝写真を撮った。お花はいいね。
花を見てると、私ももうちょっと女らしくなろうカナ、、とか思ったりもする。
最近特に、バイクだー、ギターだー、と男の子路線を走っていたから、女の子ちっくなことしてないなぁ、、。まぁ、そういう柄じゃないからしょうがないか。
50歳か60歳ぐらいになったら、素敵な大人の女性になってたいけどね。
（遅すぎ :-?）
posted by yuki @ 12/08/2004 01:49:00 AM
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Guitars aren't feminine? hrrh?
Hmmm, the following articles suggest that the guitar is actually quite feminine, a prominent symbol of femininity. So you and other women should be expressing your femininity through guitar playing....
The second article has the interesting quote "There's also nothing sexier than a girl playing acoustic guitar."
The third article has the interesting quote "The most popular instruments for girls are, in this order: piano, flute, keyboard, sax (presumably alto), drums, violin, clarinet, electric guitar, guitar and harp."
Lastly, the guitar is a symbol of a poor bohemian, compared with a bourgoise piano player "A demise in popularity of the guitar among Europe's aristocracy came with the introduction of the grand piano. The musical range of both instruments is comparable and both can accompany themselves in canonic form or melody/bass lines. But the louder sound of the piano, its relative ease of mastery and its impressive physical size made it the instrument of choice in the mid 1800s. Fortunately, the peasants couldn't afford these new developments. As a result, the guitar was seen as a poor man's orchestra for many years. "
http://www.3-cities.com/~cgstc/history.html
early guitars include chords strung over turtle shells, wires on clay pots, strings over wooden bowls in various shapes, or even melons.
When did the so called modern guitar first take shape? .'...the history of what we call the guitar begins at the point where the form of the instrument takes on the shape of a woman's body: softly rounded at the shoulders, curving inward at the waist, and concluding with another gently rounded curve at the bottom.' This allusion appears frequently in guitar history. For example, Luc Dominique, the singing nun, describes the feminine psychology of the guitar when she sang 'I would like to be like a guitar with a singing heart...like a guitar which you can fill with your song.
Another less politically correct statement relating guitars to the feminine mystique comes from Spain....('La mujuer y la guitarra, para usarlas hay que templarlas' says an old Spanish proverb: To use a woman or a guitar one must know how to tune them). In one ancient sculpture, the bowstring of Apollo Argyrotoxos ('of the silver bow') is stretched out over the vibrant body of a woman. (I wonder if the Rosewood Guitar carries that instrument!). It gets better (worse?) ... according to Segovia, 'The guitar was invented when Apollo tried to rape Daphne - he embraced her, Daphne was changed into a laurel, and from the wood of the sacred tree the first guitar was made
http://askmen.com/women/singer_100/127b_michelle_branch.html
Michelle Branch will leave the job of being a sex kitten to Britney Spears [....]. She prefers to exude her femininity through her music a la Sarah McLachlan. That won't make her the subject of salivating teenagers' dreams, but it will maintain the focus on the music itself, not her latest belly piercing or hair color. As one of our voting panelists so eloquently put it; "There's also nothing sexier than a girl playing acoustic guitar." Well said.
http://www.musiced.co.uk/teachers/keele/keele3.html
Why does children's music participation decline
following the transition to secondary school?
Frequently played musical instruments: Children's 'Top Ten'
There is a mismatch, most pronounced among boys, between the instruments children would like to play and what they actually play in Y6 and Y7. That is perhaps no more surprising than that the most popular instruments for boys are drums (25%) and electric guitar (24%). In practice, 9% and 3% respectively have their wish fulfilled!
The most popular instruments for girls are, in this order: piano, flute, keyboard, sax (presumably alto), drums, violin, clarinet, electric guitar, guitar and harp.
For boys: drums, electric guitar, keyboard, sax, piano, guitar, electric bass, bagpipes (2%), trumpet and flute. In this survey, no boy gets to play the bagpipes, the sax, the electric bass or the flute.
In practice, the recorder is top of the list of instruments actually played by girls and boys.
Instruments and gender differences following transition to secondary school
This section includes some of the most interesting discoveries in the research. The Practitioners Report includes a table which shows the number of children playing each instrument as their main instrument in their last year in primary school (Y6) and at the end of the first year (Y7) in secondary school.
Overall, 42% of those originally playing instruments were still playing one year later. Girls have more staying power than boys (48% as opposed to 35%). The most marked gender differences appear for traditionally "masculine" instruments. The number of girls playing those instruments hardly drops from primary to secondary. But there is a spectacular fall in boys playing these instruments, viz trumpet, drums and guitar.
The report draws attention to "the curious and initially paradoxical finding that boys who start traditionally 'feminine' or 'neutral' instruments at primary school are more likely to continue with them than boys who start traditionally 'masculine' instruments. However, on reflection this makes sense: boys taking-up 'feminine' instruments at primary school have accumulated considerable motivation and support to challenge gender-stereotypes, leading to greater long-term commitments."
About whether motorcycle riding is masculine/feminine...
In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Rob Pirsig says that motorcycle riding is romantic and thereby feminine in the eyes of "Northern Europeans", and he is presumably using "Northern Europeans" as a proxy for AngloSaxon culture that is approximately equivalent to Western/ModernGlobal culture....
So, according to him, you can retain your femininity as a romantic motorcycle rider... but you shouldn't learn to maintain your bike, as that's classic/masculine!
So... a secondary conclusion... is that you can express your femininity by riding a poorly maintained motorcycle.....
http://bonigv.tripod.com/chapters/chapter6.htm
The romantic mode is primarily inspirational, imaginative, creative, intuitive. Feelings rather than facts predominate. "Art" when it is opposed to "Science" is often romantic. It does not proceed by reason or by laws. It proceeds by feeling, intuition and esthetic conscience. In the northern European cultures the romantic mode is usually associated with femininity, but this is certainly not a necessary association.
The classic mode, by contrast, proceeds by reason and by laws...which are themselves underlying forms of thought and behavior. In the European cultures it is primarily a masculine mode and the fields of science, law and medicine are unattractive to women largely for this reason. Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic. The dirt, the grease, the mastery of underlying form required all give it such a negative romantic appeal that women never go near it.
Although surface ugliness is often found in the classic mode of understanding it is not inherent in it. There is a classic esthetic which romantics often miss because of its subtlety. The classic style is straightforward, unadorned, unemotional, economical and carefully proportioned. Its purpose is not to inspire emotionally, but to bring order out of chaos and make the unknown known. It is not an esthet- ically free and natural style. It is esthetically restrained. Everything is under control. Its value is measured in terms of the skill with which this control is maintained.
To a romantic this classic mode often appears dull, awkward and ugly, like mechanical maintenance itself. Everything is in terms of pieces and parts and components and relationships. Nothing is figured out until it's run through the computer a dozen times. Everything's got to be measured and proved. Oppressive. Heavy. Endlessly grey. The death force.
Within the classic mode, however, the romantic has some appearances of his own. Frivolous, irrational, erratic, untrustworthy, interested primarily in pleasure-seeking. Shallow. Of no substance. Often a parasite who cannot or will not carry his own weight. A real drag on society. By now these battle lines should sound a little familiar.
This is the source of the trouble. Persons tend to think and feel exclusively in one mode or the other and in doing so tend to misunderstand and underestimate what the other mode is all about. But no one is willing to give up the truth as he sees it, and as far as I know, no one now living has any real reconciliation of these truths or modes. There is no point at which these visions of reality are unified.
And so in recent times we have seen a huge split develop between a classic culture and a romantic counterculture...two worlds growingly alienated and hateful toward each other with everyone wondering if it will always be this way, a house divided against itself. No one wants it really...despite what his antagonists in the other dimension might think.
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