Woman with power = bitch?

I was a little bored today so I ended up reading some old posts over at the Rob Halford forums (not something I have ever frequented myself as I don't like fanwankers).

I got into Judas Priest via Cozy Powell and Glenn Tipton (they recorded together in the mid-90s). When I got into Priest, Ripper was the lead singer and I had no interest in Rob. Rob then came back, I saw them live, and stopped listening to them from that point on... but from '98 to maybe '05 I was a huge fan (and yes, I did see Ripper with them; he was great).

Anyway, on the forums today, I was reading all the hatred towards Jayne Andrews, Judas Priest's management co-ordinator.

It was all pretty much the same from the Halford fans; she does not promote the band enough, she's rude, she's difficult, she isn't pretty enough, she's a bitch.

I got to thinking... if she was a man, surely they would just argue that she was trying to protect the band name by not whoring them out to pretty much anything (we've seen it so many times before with other bands). They consistently call her a bitch and say she is rude because she does not provide them with inside information about the band. I exchanged a few emails with Jayne in the early part of the last decade and she was nothing but helpful. But then I did not ask her for the forthcoming tour's set-list or a photo of Glenn's cock.

I've seen this so often before; any woman who does well in the music industry is a bitch. They say she slept her way to the top, she doesn't know what she's doing, etc.

Sharon Osborne. OK, I hate the TV show but Ozzy is alive due to her efforts alone.

Brenda Brooker. I think she had good intentions but don't necessarily agree with her methods. But you do what you can and I know how difficult musicians can be...

I was accused of all sorts of stuff when I was successful with my work in the business, to the point where I left and rarely interact with the people I used to class as friends.

I do think Jayne is subjected to excessive abuse and she is not even the one to blame for a lot of what happens with Judas Priest. Why don't people just lay off her?

I refuse to believe anyone that Cozy loved for so many years is anything but a good person.