I'm DJing at a Women's Studies student party, what tunes would you recommend?

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Feminist and queer anthems should obviously be on the list, but I'm also looking for stuff that's not overtly radical/gay, yet fits the theme. Preferably danceable tunes. What say you?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:19 (twenty years ago)

I'm predicting some funny comedy responses in this thread!

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:20 (twenty years ago)

Queen, "Fat Bottomed Girls"

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:27 (twenty years ago)

ying yang twins - wait

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:28 (twenty years ago)

motley crue - 'girls, girls, girls'

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:29 (twenty years ago)

duran duran - girls on film

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:30 (twenty years ago)

Christ, I'd totally forgotten about "Fat Bottomed Girls", I might actually play that.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:30 (twenty years ago)

weather girls

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:31 (twenty years ago)

Queen, "Fat Bottomed Girls"
-- NoTimeBeforeTime (mbvarkestra197...), October 2nd, 2006. (Barry Bruner) (later)
ying yang twins - wait
-- The Lex (alex.macpherso...), October 2nd, 2006. (The Lex) (later)
motley crue - 'girls, girls, girls'
-- Charlie Howard (charlieflie...), October 2nd, 2006. (the sphinx) (later)
duran duran - girls on film

-- The Lex (alex.macpherso...), October 2nd, 2006. (The Lex) (later)

http://galaktikal.homestead.com/files/ban.jpg

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:31 (twenty years ago)

Can someone recommend me womanist disco anthems in the vain of "I'm Every Woman"? I'm probably skipping "It's Raining Men" and "I Will Survive", 'cause I don't really like either one.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:33 (twenty years ago)

'last night a dj saved my life'

― estela (estela), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:34 (twenty years ago)

i really really want to be commissioned to dj a women's studies party now, there is no way in the world i would be able to resist playing 'wait'

(but i would also play lil kim to MAKE UP FOR IT!)

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:34 (twenty years ago)

tok - chi chi man :D

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:35 (twenty years ago)

N.W.A. - She swallowed it.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:47 (twenty years ago)

Lex, do you really think Lil' Kim would be a good antidote to the Ying Yang Twins? Aren't they more like two sides of the same coin?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:54 (twenty years ago)

Donna Summer "Bad Girls"

― willem -- (willem), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:54 (twenty years ago)

Lex, do you really think Lil' Kim would be a good antidote to the Ying Yang Twins? Aren't they more like two sides of the same coin?

would this be the same currency that more right-on 'queer' acts like le tigre, peaches, gravy train et al also deal in? yes, yes it would, but with better beats!

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:56 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I agree that there's often a fine line between "selling sexuality" and "dealing with sexuality in a liberated way" when it comes to female artists. I'm not that familiar with Lil' Kim, but the stuff I've heard hasn't convinced me she's in the latter category.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 2 October 2006 12:01 (twenty years ago)

You might check this out:

http://www.girlmonster.info/

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 2 October 2006 12:03 (twenty years ago)

Though I could do with sexually liberated r'n'b tunes, like that song from a couple of year ago whose chorus went, "lick my pussy like you should". Who was it by, can't remember?

(x-post)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 2 October 2006 12:04 (twenty years ago)

A WINNER IS ME

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 2 October 2006 12:05 (twenty years ago)

i don't see the difference between the two at all. every artist who deals or trades on sexuality is "selling sexuality" (and i have yet to see an argument which has convinced me that this is a bad thing). "dealing with sexuality in a liberated way" - wtf does this even mean? liberating to whom? is this meant to be superior to selling sexuality?

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 2 October 2006 12:06 (twenty years ago)

Though I could do with sexually liberated r'n'b tunes, like that song from a couple of year ago whose chorus went, "lick my pussy like you should". Who was it by, can't remember?

khia - my neck, my back (lick it)

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 2 October 2006 12:07 (twenty years ago)

Why do people think Tuomas is fake? Oh right, bullshit threads like this.

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Monday, 2 October 2006 12:11 (twenty years ago)

What I meant is the difference between exploiting sexism towards women and being a sexually confident woman. Okay, many of those who exploit sexism are also sexually confident, but I think you can do the latter without the former. Of course, even then you're selling your sexual confidence, but that's not a bad thing to sell.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 2 October 2006 12:16 (twenty years ago)

Jo, can you point me to the bullshit on this thread?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 2 October 2006 12:19 (twenty years ago)

if "taking advantage of the fact that str8 men lust after women" = "exploiting sexism" i can't think of many women who aren't guilty!

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 2 October 2006 12:23 (twenty years ago)

Well, yeah, but there are different degrees to that.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 2 October 2006 12:28 (twenty years ago)

Lil Kim needs to rock a suit more.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 2 October 2006 12:33 (twenty years ago)

like the Ying-Yang Twinz!

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 2 October 2006 12:33 (twenty years ago)

Nirvana - Rape Me

― chakra khan chakra khan (sanskrit), Monday, 2 October 2006 12:34 (twenty years ago)

Someone suggest an Anal Cunt track now, we can get the trifecta!

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Monday, 2 October 2006 12:37 (twenty years ago)

lil kim in a suit:

http://api.mds.cw.com/xmlserver/img/010000-010999/med_10482.jpg

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 2 October 2006 12:43 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v201/sevenxviii/Isawsuchdisplaysofanti-feminismlast.jpg

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Monday, 2 October 2006 12:45 (twenty years ago)

lol, Marc Loi, you big pussy!

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Monday, 2 October 2006 12:53 (twenty years ago)

hahah, that's a very sly way of trying to get into women's pants

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:16 (twenty years ago)

Whitehouse - "Just like a cunt" (argues that women should empower themselves by stopping to act like cunts)

― wostyntje (wostyntje), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:21 (twenty years ago)

Consolidated - You Suck

― nate woolls (napawo), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:29 (twenty years ago)

i'm guessing ilm's population in 99% male, what with increasingly unsubtle suggestions re. this thread, and the mere existence of the stripper thread.

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:31 (twenty years ago)

There's two stripper threads! And an actual female and stripper posted in one of them.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:34 (twenty years ago)

i'm guessing ilm's population in 99% male

1% female, 6% male, 93% save-a-ho.

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:35 (twenty years ago)

lol, drunk people randomly grope and make out with people they didn't even talk to at a college party, film at 11! those horrible sober men, taking advantage of drunk women. note marc's use of the term "their women." what a sleaze!

why is this different from any other party, can't you just play random crap until everyone's drunk and then "accidentally" loop "groove is in the heart" for a couple hours?

― intensive studies (mike h.), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:36 (twenty years ago)

male /=idiot

i'm guessing 99% of ilm is idiot

― alderman frank rossi (bulbs), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:36 (twenty years ago)

oops our petri got thier first saluta!

― alderman frank rossi (bulbs), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:38 (twenty years ago)

Speaking as someone who was a women's studies major, and went to plenty of women's studies parties, I think it's safe to say that we like music like everybody else does. There's going to be some inevitable contingent of Ani Difranco types (Bitch & Animal for the hipper) and Le Tigre tended to go down excellently back in 2000, so I guess follow that lead, but beyond that, we just like to dance! Play whatever you would play at any hipster/college party, a mix of ace pop choons and whatever. Just weed out anything really grotesquely misogynist so that you don't have to deal with the group that really will call you out on the bullshit of playing misogynistic junk at a women's studies party.

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:38 (twenty years ago)

loi's little anecdote is smugly self-righteous. great work him thinking it's his role and right to fend off other men.

regarding strippers, i totally should have gone to a strip club when i went to roppongo. that way i'd have something more interesting to recount. as far as heading to a strip club in my home city, the likelihood is precisely zero.

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:44 (twenty years ago)

As someone who used to get a sizeable contingent of "political" and even separatist lesbians down at his club nights, I'd say DON'T try and choose your tracks on "I'm down with me sistas" grounds, but DO be careful about the lyrical content of the tracks you play, as they WILL be listening, and they WILL object if needs be. Other than that, a dancefloor's a dancefloor...

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:47 (twenty years ago)

Kid Rock - Yodelin' In The Valley

― SAS (sschwartzberg), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:14 (twenty years ago)

(you're) having my baby - paul anka

― timmy tannin (pompous), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:30 (twenty years ago)

Janis Ian-At Seventeen
Helen Reddy-I Am Woman
Indigo Girls' overwrought cover of Romeo and Juliet
The awful duo of Bitch & Animal, inexplicibly popular with this crowd
2 Nice Girls

but not matter what you play, count on offending someone.

Women's Studies, bwak. Ideology disguised as academic discipline.

― shookout (shookout), Monday, 2 October 2006 16:17 (twenty years ago)

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After this, the dance party started. Lyn Collins, Aretha, Tina, Staple Singers, Dusty, more Aretha, JB's "Liberation" - they went bazonkers , as J-Shep says. They were doing the most child-like, uncoordinated wiggling, riverdance-prancing I have ever seen; glorius, happy and free. They cheered at the start of each song, pointing at me and hooting. I felt like Paul Oakenfold playing to 20,000 Belgian ravers.

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 18:29 (twenty years ago)

tuomas, just play the frogs, ok?

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 18:30 (twenty years ago)

Seriously, check out that 3-CD comp put out by Chicks on Speed.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 19:05 (twenty years ago)

male women's studies majors=funny

(I bet his parents are thrilled)

― shookout (shookout), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 19:51 (twenty years ago)

His two mommies!

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 20:01 (twenty years ago)

be sure to play some Erasure, Bronski Beat, and Jimmy Somerville solo stuff...

Also, Tuomas, if you're not out yet, it's time.

― shookout (shookout), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 20:03 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, correct answer:

The Thread Boob Etiquette (A Question For The Ladies) Read By Ned Raggett.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 20:09 (twenty years ago)

be sure to play some Erasure, Bronski Beat, and Jimmy Somerville solo stuff...

Also, Tuomas, if you're not out yet, it's time.

http://www.themagictutor.com/columnas/rookies2/psyduck.jpg

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 20:35 (twenty years ago)

Computer students do want computer themed music for dancing, I think. Also they like it if you have a lot of sound tracks to anime shows.

― William Ryan Stuart Hamilton (Stagger Lee), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 12:23 (twenty years ago)

ALDO COWPAT OTM (only it should be read by Kate Masonic Boom and Ned in tandem)

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 12:25 (twenty years ago)

"real" men and "real" women

anyone care to show me where these people are? i see plenty of people trying to play the 'real' part out, but always fallin on the face.
i have only met a handful of 'real' people, men or women.

feminism's a lot like punk, it had it's time/place. but, now it's an outdated thing that met with a brickwall some time ago. feminism hasn't kept up w/ the shifting sands of culture and that's how it lost it's steam. granted, there are some trying to change that. but, not many. and no Ani-Army's gonna change that.

btw- it's $$$. that's the only thing that's on top. not a man/woman. but a figure...

― edde (edde), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 13:18 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, believing in equality is totally played out.

― Eppy (Eppy), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:06 (twenty years ago)

it's a fad

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:09 (twenty years ago)

feminism died when the first kid said...

― a|ex (Pareene), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:17 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes I think people's definition of "feminism" is along the lines of "the reason girls won't have sex with me."

― Eppy (Eppy), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:37 (twenty years ago)

equality's an ideal, not one that seem attainable anymore.
for anyone- gender, race, etc.

― edde (edde), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:46 (twenty years ago)

Team Dresch's Freewheel might be a good one, although maybe not dancy enough.

― darin (darin), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 18:32 (twenty years ago)

The Crystals: "He Hit Me (It Felt Like A Kiss)"

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 18:51 (twenty years ago)

PJ Harvey's "Dry" (the track, not the album...)

― Robot Chant (robotchant), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 20:10 (twenty years ago)

feminism (as practiced in women's studies classes at small, liberal arts colleges) is kind of like an intellectual exercise in conspiracy theories for rich white girls.

― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 21:40 (twenty years ago)

You should probably just dodge the "question" and play dance music, that's what it's for.

― what does it mean to you? (section241), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 21:48 (twenty years ago)

feminism (as practiced in women's studies classes at small, liberal arts colleges) is kind of like an intellectual exercise in conspiracy theories for rich white girls.

Wow, man.

Ever heard of bell hooks? Angela Davis? Gloria Anzaldua? Robert Jensen? Emma Goldman?

Do some reading, friend.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 22:02 (twenty years ago)

I didn't realize that Emma Goldman was still teaching at a small liberal-arts college. How is the old girl?

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 22:05 (twenty years ago)

Still dancing. You know Emma.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Thursday, 5 October 2006 00:20 (twenty years ago)

At least we got

http://bestmessageboardever.com/uploads/post-1452-1151871120.jpg
-- roc u like a § (jo...), October 2nd, 2006.

out of this.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Thursday, 5 October 2006 00:57 (twenty years ago)

feminism (as practiced in women's studies classes at small, liberal arts colleges) is kind of like an intellectual exercise in conspiracy theories for rich white girls.

http://www.pokemonmillennium.com/images/games/channel/psyduck-news.jpg

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 5 October 2006 01:50 (twenty years ago)

feminism (as practiced in women's studies classes at small, liberal arts colleges) is kind of like an intellectual exercise in conspiracy theories for rich white girls.

Yeah, except this conspiracy theories are backed by statistics (among everything else).

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 5 October 2006 05:52 (twenty years ago)

Also, ever heard of postcolonial feminism?

It seems that the people who have the strongest opinions about feminism are the ones who know the least about it.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 5 October 2006 05:53 (twenty years ago)

ever heard of postcoital feminism?

― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 5 October 2006 06:06 (twenty years ago)

http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/encelia/charevol/img002.GIF

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Thursday, 5 October 2006 13:02 (twenty years ago)

Delta 5 "Anticipation"

― So Ho La (So Ho La), Thursday, 5 October 2006 13:04 (twenty years ago)

yes, dubious statistics like the constantly bantered around "1 in 4 women have been sexually assaulted," which is b.s.

― shookout (shookout), Thursday, 5 October 2006 17:56 (twenty years ago)

Well duh! I mean, you've never sexually assulted anyone, right?

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 5 October 2006 18:07 (twenty years ago)

yes, dubious statistics like the constantly bantered around "1 in 4 women have been sexually assaulted," which is b.s.

Lame, but not Psyduck worthy. Try harder!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 5 October 2006 19:21 (twenty years ago)

It seems that the people who have the strongest opinions about feminism are the ones who know the least about it.

-- Tuomas (lixnix...), October 5th, 2006.

OTM

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Thursday, 5 October 2006 19:26 (twenty years ago)

http://imagescommerce.bcentral.com/merchantfiles/4951802/patbackwand.jpg

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Thursday, 5 October 2006 19:53 (twenty years ago)

Tuomas is beating Marc Loi at his own game he's not bold enough to play

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Thursday, 5 October 2006 19:54 (twenty years ago)

TS: Feminist vs. Womanist, or, Gloria Steinhem vs. Alice Walker

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 6 October 2006 01:29 (twenty years ago)

didn't noted feminists the Rolling Stones write a song abt Angela Davis?

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 6 October 2006 13:46 (twenty years ago)

"Brown Sugar"?

― Eppy (Eppy), Friday, 6 October 2006 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Seriously though, how can anyone like Bitch & Animal? I've seen them live a few times and they were completly terrible.

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 6 October 2006 13:58 (twenty years ago)

google says "Sweet Black Angel" off Exile.

that's a sweet song. you should play that.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 6 October 2006 14:20 (twenty years ago)

It seems that the people who have the strongest opinions about feminism are the ones who know the least about it.

Kind of a stupid statement. I mean, Germaine Greer has a strong opinion about it. So did you tell her the same?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 6 October 2006 14:40 (twenty years ago)

ps I only posted an Anal Cunt song because someone requested it. Sry if it was a big deal or anything.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 7 October 2006 00:38 (twenty years ago)

ten months pass...

is hoosteen new? he is quite a treat.
-- the classic sounds of the seventh of january 1998 (Enrique), Tuesday, October 3, 2006 9:46 AM

the dawn of hoostery

― gershy, Thursday, 30 August 2007 06:17 (nineteen years ago)

Tuomas, how did the party go, anyway? I still stand by my suggestions.

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 30 August 2007 07:45 (nineteen years ago)

five months pass...

so many levels of wtf on this thread. what did you play, tuomas?

― gershy, Saturday, 2 February 2008 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

equality's an ideal, not one that seem attainable anymore.
for anyone- gender, race, etc.

-- edde (edde), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 17:46

― Bodrick III, Saturday, 2 February 2008 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

I can't remember what I played at the party this thread was about. For the last Women's Studies party I was in, I did this compilation which was sort of a history of female rappers, staring with The Sequence and ending with Estelle. That was fun to compile. Might put it up here, but I'm not sure what's the current policy with file sharing.

― Tuomas, Saturday, 2 February 2008 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

No Rock Bitch?

― chap, Saturday, 2 February 2008 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

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