Is It reasonable to consider that rock music is gendered male?

The Rolling Stones top 50 guitarists contain no women; Rock music has been gendered masculine through society. As girls grow up they are taught “to be feminine and not to engage in masculine activities.” (Bayton) The guitar is designed for the male anatomy; the female body makes it awkward to hold a guitar. “Rock Guitarists typically hold their instruments low down in front of there genitals..The only reason for this is the silent encoded phallocentric message” (ibid p.43)

Amanda Sloat states ‘heavy metal lyrics often refer to women in a way that suggests sexual subversion.’ Society was giving women more of a social voice so lyrics enabled men to take control.

The symbolic domination of women through lyrics continues to make rock male. “For women rockers to become hard aggressive performers it was necessary for them, as Jerry Garciac commented on janis Joplin to become one of the boys”