That's it, time to dust off the drums

From the Australian:

LET'S be honest: rock'n'roll is like the fire brigade, still a male preserve. What women have instead is hormone rock: one clever girl, an acoustic guitar and not too much banging and crashing.

...Rock'n'roll is the musical embodiment of maleness. It's one of the reasons women get penis envy: it looks fun. It's about vanity, anger and nihilism; it's ugly things like a petrol-guzzling car, a pub fight, a one-track mind. Women who play rock'n'roll are often sexy and aggressive but are not representative of their sex in general. Is Courtney Love like your sister? Is Patti Smith like your mum?

Hormone rock is rock with the cock taken out and it's what a lot of women want to listen to right now. Women left alone with their more tormenting attributes don't start wars. They moan, cry, bitch, go shopping; they're anxious, neurotic, put-upon, argumentative, manipulative, analytical and brooding. These are all aspects of femaleness that none of us feels enamoured of, but they are unquestionably an essential aspect of ourselves.

She makes angst rock just like a woman | The Arts | The Australian