Why does prog attrack more males, not females?

chopper wrote: RoyFairbank wrote: Prog is aimed at men; that's why; look at Brain Salad Surgery, for instance. Look- classic rock era- most music by men. Prog comes from classic rock. Prog most by men - prog music manish- men like prog women don't flawless logic? Flawless, no.   Some women like prog. Some men don't.

Yes, but generally

Its a social thing, not a music thing. Women could like Prog, but the social pressure is to not like it, or rather to like some other thing.

How can women get together with their friends and talk about the Delicate Sound of Thunder like I can with people I know? From when I was a boy I could discuss PF with other men. Could a girl do the same, except by going across the boundaries of gender norms?

(What a weird sounding bunch o' lines)


Edited by RoyFairbank - April 23 2010 at 10:34

RoyFairbank wrote: chopper wrote: RoyFairbank wrote: Prog is aimed at men; that's why; look at Brain Salad Surgery, for instance. Look- classic rock era- most music by men. Prog comes from classic rock. Prog most by men - prog music manish- men like prog women don't flawless logic? Flawless, no.   Some women like prog. Some men don't. Yes, but generally Its a social thing, not a music thing. Women could like Prog, but the social pressure is to not like it, or rather to like some other thing. How can women get together with their friends and talk about the Delicate Sound of Thunder like I can with people I know? From when I was a boy I could discuss PF with other men. Could a girl do the same, except by going across the boundaries of gender norms? (What a weird sounding bunch o' lines)

RoyFairbank wrote: Prog is aimed at men; that's why; look at Brain Salad Surgery, for instance.

I happen to think this album is an unlistenable blow of hot air.
Does that mean I'm a lady?

My two cents:
No emotion + no substance + crap lyrics + technical bragging ==> No Ladies

Luckily 90% of Prog is much more then that, so go out all of you and convince more people of that !

The problem with most of the guys that started this thread is that they probably don't even know one single woman... 

Edited by The T - April 23 2010 at 11:20

The T wrote: The problem with most of the guys that started this thread is that they probably don't even know one single woman...

So true.

The T wrote: The problem with most of the guys that started this thread is that they probably don't even know one single woman...

Again?
Well, some things don't change, do they?

Funnily, it reminds that I will attend the concerts of some free-jazz female musicians next week. Not "prog" enough, maybe...

I recommend, for some studies on women and how they tend to process knowledge, the book Women's Ways of Knowing.  One generalization to come out of this work is that woman solve problems in a more collaborative way (sensitive to the perspectives/feelings of others) than men do.  How I understand this is that men tend to prefer rules and if you break a rule well then you suck and who cares...things don't go your way, but that's cool.  Women tend to be more willing to reconsider each situation if there is someone who is going to loose out even if that person bears some responsibility for their being "on the outs".  But if you are always struggling against the group then you might "fall out" of the realm of consideration and be excluded.  Of course this doesn't define how men or women think or act, it is more the "center" or "home" or "path of least resistance" that men or women have to start from.  I suspect that intrasexual socialization holds the bulk of the responsibility for this difference between the sexes and not so much the natural or genetic makeup of the individual.

What's a female? 

sealchan wrote: The T wrote: The question should rather be, why does prog, in theory a musically-demanding genre (at least compared with regular pop), attract so many of the simple-minded?   Or should we say socially simple-minded?

Edited by The T - April 23 2010 at 17:06