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Why are there fewer female artists? I think there are few female artists because few understand and realize what it means to take art seriously. And take seriously something means knowing how to react to failure, which is maybe the most difficult part.
It is not becoming good at your art or showing it, even if they are difficult enough. But being told that you are not as good as you can, or finding that people don’t find your work interesting is way more difficult. It is usually taken personally and it hurts. A lot.
It can destroy slowly all illusions and interests in the work.
Men don’t have it any easier, even when it is said this is a male world. They are still human and feel rejection. The main difference is their education, which is basically “break it or quit it”. No other choice.
A man who doesn’t keep trying is considered a coward even while at the same time they are hurried “to earn a living so they can become the breadwinner”.
Women throughout history have had more choices: “break it or do it as a hobby”, since if they failed at raising money from it, they used to have the option of getting married.
Fortunately, is getting less common to marrying someone as a solution to financial problems (yet, there is a raising expression of “finding a Sugar Daddy”, which shares the same basis of getting a man who pays for everything).
Feminism has still much to do in changing the conception of women as breadwinner, since they are compassionate when doing it, therefore implying that it’s not their duty to be responsible.
Secondly, the idea of a lot of men succeeding and the patriarchy system helping them is illusionary. There was only one Bruce Lee, yet you can count martial artists by thousands. Only one Bach in a time where a musician was a common office since there was no Spotify or iTunes.
Statistics show that only a small percentage of people will succeed in any area. Most of them would be “good yet not remarkable”.
The few that surpass mediocrity do it as a sum of hard work, sacrifice on family and personal time, and either a little luck or the right amount of money or contacts.
Mozart, by instance, wasn’t a poor musician but the child of the court musicians, which means he was born with the means and the contacts to become a master.
Jackie Chan -according to a Facebook video, so, don’t take it too seriously- was chosen to be Bruce Lee’s stunt and therefore trained by him, which meant to raise his habilities to match Lee’s, not pulling him down.
Women need to learn these attitudes too, and face downsides with a more rational approach and redirect passion as a booster to get their objectives. Then there will be more female artists.
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