"But the absence of women from recent, mainstream rock music is troubling. I want to argue that there are two, interconnected reasons: the first has to do the masculinist nature of the “rock myth”, and the second is the increasing commercialisation of what we used to call “alternative music”."
- John Gunders, Where were all the sisters? — The Memes of Production. It’s an interesting point, and one I wish he’d expanded on a little more in this article.