Linda Dahl emphasizes that, “Many times women would dress up like men while onstage so as to make the audience more accepting to the idea of a woman onstage” (Dahl 55). Yet Mary Lou wore dresses onstage and her presence as a woman drew a bigger crowd than ever before. In addition, Mary Lou herself declared that she “got her reputation” from playing like a man (Documentary Collection np). Therefore, because of male superiority at that time, it was not enough for Mary Lou to be a woman and play her music, she had to be compared to a man. Actually, Linda Dahl claims that, “the whole dilemma for women