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Morley College in London decided to celebrate International Woman's Day by featuring "a piano recital of women's composers."
See if you can figure out what the problem is:
🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 https://t.co/z45kmwYiqE— Jessica Eaton (@Jessica Eaton) 1551686229.0
Morley... where are the women? WHERE?!
The irony is not lost on us.
At least he's PLAYING music by female composers, though that's little comfort:
@Jessicae13Eaton LOL! https://t.co/699jQLiDZ0— Sukh Pabial (@Sukh Pabial) 1551686397.0
@Jessicae13Eaton The only good thing about that is he is not playing all male composers in HONOUR of women. 😒🙄🙄🙄😒— Lahi (@Lahi) 1551687343.0
@Jessicae13Eaton Is it me or does he even look surprised by this?— Kelly Bracewell (@Kelly Bracewell) 1551689071.0
@Jessicae13Eaton Wow. WOW. I mean... it’s not like our tiny little lady hands can play compositions like this. I kn… https://t.co/iSml5SSxhe— Christina Malley (@Christina Malley) 1551700830.0
@Jessicae13Eaton https://t.co/92wq8InCAn— Jane Watson (@Jane Watson) 1551698480.0
@Jessicae13Eaton Mansplaying— Michelle Benato (@Michelle Benato) 1551692245.0
Morley tried to cover its own behind by releasing a statement about the poster.
We are aware that an issue has been raised with a poster advertising our upcoming piano concert of work by women composers for International Women's Day. This is an older, unapproved version of the poster for this event, which was brought to our attention several weeks ago. In response to this initial complaint, all copies of the original poster were promptly removed and replaced by a poster that showcases the talented women composers the event seeks to highlight.
This was the new poster:
Morley College
But people are still seriously annoyed with their initial misstep.
@Jessicae13Eaton @JessicaXDiamond Who better to celebrate women than a man 🙄— Peter Shaw (@Peter Shaw) 1551716409.0
@Jessicae13Eaton @holly_bourneYA Pianosplaining.— Andy Wright (@Andy Wright) 1551701222.0
@Jessicae13Eaton https://t.co/y0Y3txOujz— Patricia Jane Mowat ⚢ (@Patricia Jane Mowat ⚢) 1551690950.0
@Jessicae13Eaton @PankhurstEM What fresh hell is this nonsense 😳🙄🙄— Julie Steven (@Julie Steven) 1551690326.0
@Jessicae13Eaton https://t.co/VRaqivq9Oo— Victoria Brownworth (@Victoria Brownworth) 1551735064.0
@Jessicae13Eaton I’m going out on a limb here and saying Nikos has a massive ego. Works there, playing the gig, pos… https://t.co/JDmpvrjJWn— Snapps (@Snapps) 1551687428.0
Morley continued:
Morley has a long history of supporting the work of women, going back to when we were founded as a philanthropic institution by Emma Cons, and Equality and Diversity are guiding principles in our day-to-day operation. We employ more female teaching staff than male, and a greater proportion of our students are female than male. In 2015 we launched the Women Conductors Course in conjunction with the Royal Philharmonic Society, with the explicit aim of bringing more women into a facet of music performance that has long been very male-dominated. We are also holding a Penny Lecture for International Women's Day about the work of Virginia Woolf.
Morley recognises that the design of the original poster was an error of judgement, and we apologise for the offence that it has caused. We will take great care to avoid making a similar mistake in future.
@Jessicae13Eaton @sarforalltosee Because literally not one woman in the world can play the piano.— ❄D🌹wn Oliver❄ (@❄D🌹wn Oliver❄) 1551699575.0
@Jessicae13Eaton He looks surprised too— ryanmcilmoyl (@ryanmcilmoyl) 1551701941.0
@Jessicae13Eaton um...but...sigh... https://t.co/PgbaCQjci7— Jennifer Cassarly (@Jennifer Cassarly) 1551688905.0
@Jessicae13Eaton Y I K E S https://t.co/jJbI0tbr8j— Lada B (@Lada B) 1551697958.0
Yikes indeed.