Chukka-Chukka Wah-Wah
Prof. Sheila Whiteley, the chair of pop music at Britain’s University of Salford, is supervising a student’s Ph.D. study of air guitar. Dance teacher and self-proclaimed feminist Amanda Griffiths, 32, will write a 60,000-word thesis (subtitle: “Celebrating the Fakeness of the Inauthentic”) about why so few women play air guitar or attend competitions. Those who do participate, she says, do it differently than men. (London Telegraph) ...And all this time we thought feminism meant not having to fake it.
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