I am a 32 year old female who is married with two children. I am disabled with a few pain nerve disorders that effect my arms, hands and lower body. I have always wanted to learn how to play guitar ever since I can remember. My real father is a musician (guitar, keybords and drums). He gave my mother a Gibbson Acustic to give to me. He was never around until I was 21 years old. My step father smashed my guitar because he was jelouse of my real Dad. I grew up on welfare as a child. My step father got me a flying V when I was 15 years old for my birthday. But then he sold it for drug money. I never had a chance to learn. I now have a guitar that was given to me from my nephew. My kids want to learn to play to so I have to learn to teach them. This guitar is very uncomfortable for me to play because of my disabilities. But I am sticking with it and tuffing it out. When I am causing myself more pain than usual I take more medication so that I can keep lerning. I do not appreciate all of these coments about how women can't play. And if they can play then it is something sexual. Yes I do agree that men are stronger than women naturally. But the sexual coments are just uncalled for. Yes being a guitarist is a male dominated sean. And women are put off by it a lot because of the sexual coments we get. But we don't only get those coments from the guitar playing sean. We get those coments when ever we do anything in the world. We get those coments when we bring life into the world by rearing children. Then we also get those coments when we have already had our children and then go out into the work force. You men want to say that women can't do things like play the guitar because we aren't strong enough and that we don't have a pair so we can't play well that is just a bunch of BULL *^%$. This kind of sean just really ticks me off. I am determined to learn how to play because I have wanted to play my whole life but never got the chance because of what I had to go through growing up and now that I am disabled it is hard for me to learn but I'll be damnd if there is anything going to stop me now that I have a guitar to learn on. I am sorry for ranting like a woman but you know what I am a woman and you men are ticking me off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am also new to this group but now I don't know if I want to be a part of this group. Yes I can play a few cords the ones that a man tought me when I was a kid before my guitar was sold for drugs and I couldn't keep going on my guitar education because of that (no money, no guitar) and yes I always did say that I could play a little even though I didn't have a guitar and I never got the traditional training. But the only reason why I said that I could play a little even though I didn't have a guitar and I wasn't keeping up with the lessons because of no money or guitar is because I really wanted to start up lerning again and getting a guitar. I was looking for a way to save money, raise two children and pay all of my bills and buy a guitar at the same time. Thank god my nephew gave me a guitar so that I could start learning again and get really good. I will never be in a band or anything because of me being in a wheel chair now (since October 2004) but I can learn and then teach my children so that they could be in a band. My daughter plays keybords and the clarinet right now and she is 12 years old. My son doen't play any instrument because he has always wanted to play guitar as well. But he can sing really well. So stop putting women down when they can play. Women also probably say that they play when they only play a little and then stop playing because of what you men always do to us when we can play!!!!!! :mad:

Sharleen0146