Why dont many girls like prog?

An incredible amount of bending over backwards in here to save feelings. It's simple: men make things. Tall buildings, prog rock, an endless supply of excuses for women (I kid...but seriously). Women are more practical than men. Progressive Rock is something that men made in their free time that impresses other men (because the amount of work that went in is obvious), but to most (yes, most) women a 20 minute song seems self-indulgent and immature, when they can get everything they want out of music in 3.5 minutes.

This is getting amusing. So a piece of music, prog, or say a classical work might be quite lengthy. And this is "immature" yet a top 20 pop tune of 1.5 minutes (extended to 3.5) is mature.

It's all about your social environment and demand. Women have something men want. Women therefore do not waste time and money on listening to Beethoven symphonies while they can get some guy to squire her to the concert or opera (not a prog concert obviously); the social cache gets increased. Instead they watch movies and TV to have something to talk about among other women. For the same reason guys are into sports. Conversation pieces.

Women can get into serious music of course they do but only in tme becuase they have a busier social schedule.

Of course there is no excuse for feeble headed guys into the most hideous pop content (sampled material some of my favourite hates). But as the western world has become more feminized culturally then the musical emphasis will be more on the briefer, yet repetitive audio wall paper. And the associated dudes are playing catch up as opposed to finding a new world (Dvorak or anything prog rock).

Essentially it's too time consumptive for too many.

DreamTechPlus wrote: That's very interesting. Every single one of my friends who listens to prog, not one of them is male. Maybe it's regional.

I also live in Australia. Is it Brenda and Sheila, those matching moles from Ipswich?


Edited by ExittheLemming - July 14 2017 at 07:57

Karen loves her some Phideaux. Oh and I believe Eleonora is very big on Amon Düül ll.

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