On Sunday, Penn State Pro-Choice sponsored a Rock for Choice concert, featuring six bands: Instant Scum, Capability Brown, The Pinch, Glendale, Anthrophobia and Liverball. But they weren't just any six bands -- all six bands were all male. No female musicians performed.

So what, you say -- female musicians are absent from a lot of concert lineups. But at a concert supporting a woman's right to choose, there is little logic in not having even one woman's voice heard. That's a voice meant figuratively -- drums and guitars played by women count as voices in this case.

Ally Hunter, a Penn State Pro-Choice co-director who helped organize the benefit, said she tried to get Luscious Jackson, Jawbox and Band of Susans, any of which would have been cool. Luscious Jackson couldn't play because it was recording; Band of Susans was on tour in California; and Jawbox couldn't play because it signed with a major label and it was harder for concert organizers to get in touch with and book the band.

Although aiming to get national acts such as these was a good try, there should have been local acts that included female performers. There are bands with women out there -- Hot Mamas, Koehler Bay and Out of the Blue, to name a few.

Hunter said she tried to book Junction, but the band had broken up. Former Junction singer Vanessa Downing's new band, Samuel, hadn't formed by the time Rock for Choice was choosing its lineup. Hunter said bands such as Out of the Blue, Hot Mamas and Koehler Bay didn't really fit in with the rest of the lineup.

But the Rock for Choice organizers aren't the only ones at fault. You can't have local women musicians perform at a pro-choice concert if there are few female musicians to choose from.

State College -- like most of the music industry -- is overrun with your usual all-male setup. But it's not like women aren't trying.

There are more important fields where women's input is needed -- government, medicine and business, to name a few. But entertainment's powerful influence affects the way we see things, and if entertainment lacks diversity, everything else has a tendency to do likewise.

A recent MTV commercial showing clips from four bands of supposedly diverse genres is a prime example of the lack of diversity in mainstream entertainment. What were the four bands? Metallica, Guns 'N' Roses, Aerosmith and U2. OK, maybe they sound a little bit different, but put them on mute for a minute and watch. All four bands are made up of four and six white men with long hair and many years of experience and success in the music biz.

But just because white men have a monopoly on the music industry doesn't mean there aren't men who are concerned with women's reproductive rights. Any man who helps the fight for women's reproductive rights ranks high in my book -- I applaud the bands that played at Sunday's concert. But the main pro-choice argument is that women don't want men making their choices for them. By having six all-male bands, men's voices are heard louder than women's.

The women who lobby for choice say they don't want the men who run the government to control their bodies. But by having Rock for Choice benefits such as this expressed through men's voices, it seems now even the fight for reproductive rights is being controlled. Pro-choice literature was passed out at the concert, but actions speak louder than words -- it's easier and more fun to listen and watch rock 'n' roll than to read a pamphlet.

The question, women, is, do you want control of your body or don't you? State College's Rock for Choice is over and done with, but that doesn't mean action can't be taken for the future. Women are putting down the nail polish and picking up guitars -- now go listen to them. Our fight will never be won unless we learn to fight it ourselves.