There should be one day a week where only women are allowed in Guitar Centers
Summary
A woman on the subway has a proposal: Guitar Center needs one day a week reserved exclusively for women. The reason? Every visit turns into a gauntlet of sweaty guys playing "Enter Sandman" at competing volumes while she's just trying to buy a cable. Kareem loves it. The problem isn't just the sonic chaos. Female shoppers face a double threat from the staff: aggressive horniness combined with relentless mansplaining about what music is as a whole. She suggests Wednesday, borrowing the model from bathhouses that already do gendered hours. The worst Guitar Center experience? A guy asked about her band, offered his services as a drummer, then forced her to stand there while he performed an unsolicited drum solo tryout. She's 32 now. The Wonderwall move doesn't hit the same.
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So, what's your take? There should be one day a week where only women are allowed in Guitar Center. 100% agree. Real girl hours. We need this to happen. I have heard from many female musicians that going to Guitar Center, it's war.
What happens there? What happens there is there's 40 guys, sweaty, stinky guys playing Enter Sandman all at different times as loud as possible trying to compete with each other. I'm just trying to get a cable.
You want one XLR, one guitar pedal? A cable. Some pics.
Pick. It's easy. And listen, I don't want to order it off Amazon. I want to go straight to the store because you want to enjoy the experience. It's like you're going into a store. You're going to meet some other cool people. You're going to meet cool people on the women cool day.
What day? Sunday.
I was thinking maybe Wednesday. Okay. So on casual Wednesdays, I think the store is also staffed by—
No, exactly. Because there's a level of horniness from the staff at Guitar Center. When you're a woman and you walk in, they're like, it's feral. They're horny for you as a woman, but they're also trying to explain what music is as a whole. Oh, mansplaining music.
So it just—it just doesn't work. I like this a lot. I mean, the bathhouse has it.
Exactly. I go to the bathhouse and they have girls hours and like the co-ed hour.
No. So Wednesdays are for the girls and Tuesdays are for the boys and then the rest of it, it's you can intermingle. It's not an exclusionary thing. It's just I need a safe space to buy a cable.
You need a little time to buy a cable. Do you have any awful experiences at Guitar Center? Every time.
What's the worst thing that's happened other than Enter Sandman? Someone like asking about my band and then asking if I needed a drummer and then pulling me over to the drums, a man obviously to do a try out.
Yes. And I literally stood there while he played the drums for me, like a drum solo, and I couldn't like shimmy my way out.
That's the equivalent of inviting a girl over and playing Wonderwall on the acoustic guitar in your dorm room. I liked that when I was 16. At 32, it's an honor. We're never saying no.
It's a red flag. It's time to say no.