Why DO women like prog?

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 SongJohn wrote:

Short answer is that there are more musically shallow women than shallow men - because believe me, I'm not much impressed  by the types of music most men listen to either. Men have just as many societal duties and pressures but in slightly larger numbers seem more willing to breakaway and ditch the pressures. Like Sid Vicious said, "nobody has to do anything". How are women supposed to get that when they're constantly freaking about walking in the house with shoes on? Lol. Those two world-views are light years apart and most likely cannot be reconciled; even chemical perturbation from say a magic mushroom in most cases cannot do anything for the soft headed except reinforce the differences between "reality" and "fantasy". And again, I think most men are stupid like this too. Joni Mitchell said people "decided to become stupid in 1980". I tend to agree. In 1975 this woman made some albums that could give prog of the same year a run for it's money.  
My wife is one of the fortunate souls to escape idiocy. When I met her she already had Relayer in her collection, so I didn't have to teach her prog. That's why we married. I wouldn't spend my time with no woman that can't appreciate good music. Nobody's worth the time. And you know my wife got even more in harmony with me to the point where she was bringing ME new '70s music to listen to: she introduced me to Samadhi's self titled album from 1974. I don't think that ANYBODY knows this band, let alone my wife to discover the CD and send it my way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP40cCmkY9A

My wifes absolute favs are Alas, pre '75 Gong, Arachnoid, Pulsar, Eloy, Gelatine Plates, 1972-4ish ELP, Tempano etc. I'm fairly lucky as she does not listen to really much anything after 1979. It makes both of us really sick to hear anything after 1979. She's 21, I'm 25. It works. Don't settle on a non music loving woman. No such thing as the "perfect," but there's close to perfect. I've had too many stupidiotic girlfriends who would tell me to turn the prog down. That's when I had to turn the girls down. It made them cry and plead, but hey, that's their own fault for deciding on becoming brainless remnants of life afriad of anything slightly perturbing or thought-provoking. I once was playing the movie "fantastic planet" from 1973, and an old Girlfriend was crying to me to please turn it off because the music was scaring her. f**king idiot.   

There is so much wrong with this on so many levels I don't know where to start.

1. You actually can have an enduring relationship even if you don't see eye to eye musically.
2. There is plenty of good music after '79 but if that is the limitation you place on your musical interests then you don't really have to bother with spending time exploring music that came after and I can see how y'all could be perfectly happy.  Ignorance can be bliss I suppose.

I'll leave a few things for others to explain to you.