I think Nita Strauss gives women guitar players a bad name. Skill wise, she's by no means a beginner, but she is clearly, clearly nowhere near as technically skilled or as emotionally expressive through her instrument as all her marketing and career framing would suggest she is. Her music frames her as some technical virtuoso but she is an intermediate player at best, even though her music is structured entirely to show off what a "gunslinger" of a guitar player she is, when she simply doesn't have the feel to support that kind of playing. She's a real example of somebody who truly has achieved what she has almost entirely because she's hot.
To further make my point, I challenge you to name any male guitar player considered a virtuoso who is technically a worse player than Nita.
As for something positive, I do think Lari Basilio is an excellent player. She really knows her strengths and plays well to them, she's expressive as hell and her music is great. I still go back and listen to a dumb little video she did on the JHS AT+ pedal, lol. It's a simple little jam but damn it's great and makes me smile every time I hear it.
