This musician's tweet about sexist labelling in a record store will annoy you
LONDON -- If you've ever been frustrated by the sight of a record shop placing artists into a genre called "female vocalists", then look away now. British singer Kate Nash tweeted a photo she took while perusing a music store yesterday, which prompted something of a tweet storm.
Nash spotted a category in a record store entitled "females of all description". Nice.
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Her outrage couldn't be contained in just one tweet, however.
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Nash signed off on the matter with a simple message: "Don't categorize my sex #femalesofalldescription."
Nash wasn't alone in her outrage. People on Twitter shared their frustration at the blanket-labelling of female musicians comprising a genre in itself.
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One Twitter user summed up all of our feelings pretty succinctly...
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Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.
A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.
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