Without sounding anti feminist ok. Women dont seem to make good lead guitar players is there an explanation?

Question

Guys and gals i said...LEAD GUITARISTS!!

Answer 1

Oh brother, some of the answers to this question are just absurd.
Sorry girls, I'm sure you don't want to hear this, but it's the truth.
There's no real argument. Yes, there are a handful of decent female guitarists, but very few good lead guitarists, if any. Actually, I can't think of even one. All those mentioned in other posts are rythem guitarists, not LEAD guitarists.

There are a few theories, one study shwoing that intelligence is spread out in the population, differently in men & women.
If you picture a graph from left to right, females tend to be equally spread out from stupid to brilliant. - Most women are of average intellengence.
Men tend to populate the extremes of each end. There are more brilliant men than women, however, there are more stupid men than there are women as well.
This is why in the male population, you find lots of really smart, overachieving scientists, artists, etc., (where are the female DaVinci's, Michelangelo's, Jimi Hendrix's, etc.).
BUT, us males pay for this, buy there being a huge population of dumb-as-a-stick guys too. Far more complete morons among the male population than the female population.

Another factor is that there is far more Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in males than females, and spending 8-12 hours a day perfecting your musicianship is pretty obsessive!

Answer 2

You sound very angry. I know what anti-feminist is, but I can't say I totally agree with what your saying. My mother married at 16 my father was 18, they are still together. They shouldn't be. She worked watiress jobs, at a cleaners and a meat packing warehouse and a factory. Pretty much the same as him. She had four kids by the time she was 32 and finally landed a good factory job she stayed at until retirement. Him too. She did not know anything about a feminist movement, but she held that job, raised all of us, stayed with my dad and retired with quite a bit of money from stocks in that company. My father did the same. He landed a good factory job and stayed to retirement. (Back when you could do that) Now, salary wise they were about equal. Socially, my dad had the upper hand, it was the times. His idea of acting like a man was running off at the mouth. She handled everything while he talked. My mother did what she had to do to survive her life. My father was not understanding. There was no communication (still isn't) and he downed her constantly. But at the same time, she was smarter than him and she came out on top everytime. She ignored, babied and outsmarted him. My mother was raised to survive. If she would have been born at a different time, she might have done things differently, but I admire her more for accomplishing what she has through her life due to her own drive and attitude. She didn't measure things by who told who what or who paid for what, she had her own mind and did what she wanted in her own way. She was smart and made it work. Even in her opressed times, my mother came out on top. She not only was smart, but sweet, kind and a steady role model. She was a superior woman. But she never forgot she was one and didn'nt want to. I hear you on the feminist thing and it has changed a lot of rules but lets not forget we are women. The bottom line is what you feel inside and doing what you feel you are big enough to do and what will you do to get it done. We can still be women, get what we want, do the job better, smarter and more efficiently while still being feminen. There is no shame in loving your husband, likeing your home and housework, cooking if thats what your into & still be in large and in charge. My mother is the strongest person I know. I do live is this world, today, and I have said to her, how could you stay through all this. She doesn't explain. I wish I had half the confidence she has.

Answer 3

What bands are you listening to?

Have you ever heard of The Breeders, Throwing Muses, Luscious Jackson, Sleater Kinney? How about the Go Gos?

There are plenty of good lead female guitarists, just not many who get into the technical aspect of guitar like men are apt to.

Answer 4

Artistically, I'm sure many of both genders might disagree with you. But, if this is a phenomenon that you truly have observed, I would venture to say it has something to do with that jutting, belt-high vibrating phallic symbol of a guitar that adds a touch of favor to male performers, at least from the perspective of why so many, of both genders and inbetweeners, enjoy watching a guitarist play his hot instrument so much . . .kinda like a safe visual sexually satisfying psych thing going on there.

Answer 5

Just off the top of my head: Bonnie Raitt, Joan Jett, Janis Ian, Joan Armatrading, Joni Mitchell (if you count acoustic), et cetera. The linked article discusses a lack of female guitarists generally, although it disagrees with me on a few choices.

Answer 6

We are too busy cooking, cleaning, raising babies,reading, helping each
other, running the world without appearing to do so. This takes up so
much time that we really don't have any left for playing lead guitar. At
least i don't.

Answer 7

Ask Suzy Quatro

Answer 8

I disagree....I think its just a totally untapped market. Think about Courtney Love (even though many people hate her, she totally rocks), Nancy Wilson (Heart). But to answer your question, maybe it's the fact that you have to have short nails to find your way around the fretboard?

Answer 9

There are many excellent female guitarist's, you need to look around, happy searching.

Answer 10

there are tons of great female lead guitarist, carrie brownstien(sleater-kinney), alison robertson (the donnas) are just two of many great lead guitarist.