Men only?

Bob Greece wrote: RaphaelT wrote: the bulk of Fish - period material was about Derek's problem with relationship and it was quite mysogynic (Script For A Jester's Tear, The Web, the whole Fugazi, large parts of Misplaced Childhood). So you would not expect many girls listening to that stuff. Starette wrote: *gets desperate, bangs head again'st wall in fustration and decides to calm herself down by listening to Marillion*

RaphaelT ...can you inform me about the apparent mysogeny behind Script for a Jester's Tear? I've just got into Marillion more than anyone else at the moment so I'm all of a sudden quite interested.

AngleofRepose wrote: Noting that the thought has crossed Summer's mind that men naturally excel in science more than women for brain chemistry makeup reasons (complicated, but the example that made sense was that autism oftens leads to genious math minds - such as mathematician and economist Steve Nash - and is linked to testosterone imbalances while in the womb. This is why men are more often autistic) and that substantive tests have also linked music with math it might follow that complex music is easier to digest and sort through by men than women.

Interesting that autism connection with men. Maybe this also has something to do with women generally being more sociable than men.

I wonder, are men more likely to be introverted than women?

By the way, who is Summer?

Franklinstower3 wrote: My friend and i were discussing this very thing a few hours ago! haha. Anyway our theory is that most woman are more concerned about what people think of them and therefore will try and "fit in with the crowd" so until prog becomes popular most woman wont like it. Could be all wrong just my two cents.

No comment....

Seriously speaking, there seem to be a lot of people in this thread who are venting their anger or contempt at women using music as an excuse... What I really think is that there aren't just "men" and "women", but individuals that can be extremely different to each other as concerns feelings, tastes, abilities and so on. In my opinion, it's more a question of "mass" against "individual" than of "men" against "women". Nowadays most PEOPLE (irrespective of gender) tend to try and fit in with the crowd, doing what it's generally considered cool to do.

Back to prog.... I've got many male friends, and only one of them is seriously into prog. The others like everything from Anastacia to Lloyd Webber musicals, and they hardly know who Yes or ELP are - let alone more obscure acts!

Oh dear dear dear, Thus the contraversy already discussed in this thread such a long long time ago arises once again.

Yoohoo? Was Derek Dick a mysoginist? (Look at my previous post- I need some answers here! )