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MARCH 20, 2009 - Sometimes, a woman genius can't catch a break, especially from male music critics.

Take this Dallas Morning News story about last nights SXSW performance by the brilliant Mexican singer/songwriter Ximena Sarinana. The review, by a dude named Mario, said she was very good, but also called the twenty-three-year-old "child-like," "youthful" and "brunette," all in the span of a single paragraph.

For the record, Mario did not describe any of the other artists mentioned in his article - Quincy Jones, The Oak Ridge Boys, and Devo - in these subjective terms. Gomez will venture to guess that this is because they are all male and old.

Then again, Gomez has an organic tortilla chip on our slumped shoulder about the treatment of women in the music business, for our own sordid (and, yes, perhaps childlike and brunette) reasons.

Gomez should probably quit complaining and just be glad the DMN wrote about MS. Sarinana at all.

Gomez would like the record to state the very original and impressive Ms. Sarinana is currently our favorite Mexican export after tequila. We would also like to say that Ms. Sarinana sings like a modern Billie Holliday. No, we did not say "the Mexican Billie Holliday," we said "a modern Billie Holliday".