HW 23 "Singing with the Enemy"

With Apologies to Virginia Woolf

“Singing with the Enemy” is the title of the post from the blog Feministe. Singing with the Enemy is actually the title of a British TV program. It is a reality show about a women’s rock band called Severed Heaven and an all men’s band that call themselves the Lethal Fixx. In this reality show, they both had to compromise and put their music together to construct a song. But as in every reality TV show, there is always a twist. This short passage of a post parallels with the two chapters (three and four) from Virginia Woolf’s- A Room of One’s Own. The rest of the blog post discusses “The twist was Severed Heaven believed strongly in feminist values while Lethal Fixx did not have great things to say about women in rock and just genuinely were all about shagging women. One band member even said that women don’t make good rock music”. Throughout the first few chapters that I have read thus far in the book, Virginia is all about getting equalized women’s rights with men and is always bringing up issues that women have and men don’t. At the college Virginia goes to, women aren’t allowed to walk on the grass and a beadle stops her. Women can’t own their own property. According to the story, “husbands were their property”. If she were to respond to this article, she would most likely compare it to her life right now. Women in this band are being looked down upon because they “aren’t good enough” and women aren’t considered to even be able to have their own life in the book. If Virginia were to base her story on women roles today, I think that she would have a completely different story to tell and have a much better outlook on the equality of women.

http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2007/10/22/singing-with-the-enemy/