Why DO women like prog?

Smurph wrote: I tend to prefer women that love super crazy extreme death metal, cause then you can get them into experimental and tech metal, wane them onto some Cynic, then Sleepytime Gorilla Musuem, then TMV's Bedlam in Goliath, and eventually she will see the light of the prog... This only worked with one girl I met but damn it that was a good relationship. (Except for when she held me hostage with a hammer.)

b4usleep wrote: Sory guys there was only one and i married to her

I can't say we're not jealous.

Slartibartfast wrote: Kashmir75 wrote: Slartibartfast wrote: Kashmir75 wrote: Um, they don't?  I'm a guy and I don't like sports. So am I, and I don't like sports either! My wife likes sports more than I do.

My grandmother likes sports more than I do.

I've still yet to see a woman at a prog rock concert, though, lol

Slartibartfast wrote: Kashmir75 wrote: Um, they don't?  I'm a guy and I don't like sports.

Um, they don't? 

I wasn't being sexist in anyway.It was just a theory based on a play,mainly about women always having a few things on the go at any one time,while men tend to concentrate on one job at a time and I was just putting that to the way people listen to music.

 I'll listen to anything if it's well written and a likeable tune but not too repetitive.

ABBA wrote some good songs

Oh yeah I forgot about those

Slartibartfast wrote: Oddly enough the original question becomes lost.  The premise of the the thread is why do women like prog? not why they do not.  Of course prog is mostly a guy thing but not exclusively.

Yeah I caught that too
In these days everything has to be so politically correct, that it becomes increasingly difficult to have these conversations without someone throwing down the "sexist" or "generalization" card.
In nearly every of these hypothesis about music - there are exceptions. If I were to say that the only people who listens to ABBA are women and male hairdressers - I´d be wrong because my dad kinda likes them But still - I don´t know anybody outside these 2 groups of people, apart from my dad that is - who listens to ABBA.
I know I´m a bad boy - I came off sounding completely sexist, but at least I´m admitting to it

The girls I know who like prog - tend to go for the more suave and melodic stuff, and maybe that has something to do with women being more gentle creatures. I don´t know really...
I know they like some of Porcupine Tree - if it doesn´t become too psychedelic or rawkous. Pure Reason Revolution also gets the thumbs up - especially the more poppy Amor Vincit Omnia. Then again - there are bound to be women out there who love Van Damme Generator just as much as I do, but I just haven´t met them yet - or maybe they are over 50 - and got to know about music in another way. Meaning that the music could be something that was jarring and dramatical existing on its own premise - and you didn´t have to be able to dance to it.

I spoke to a couple of my female friends about this issue some time ago, and they told me that they didn´t care for music that complicated things unnecessary - and solos and jams were indeed a thing of the past - just like their parents were
The thing is - I then started talking about how I knew a lot of people who felt similarly, - but understood the power of such music - only transcribed in movies, -and then they paused for a while. One of them said, that such music is alright when it has pictures pasted onto it - and it gives that something special to the given picture.
I´m not sure about any of this, but it sure was an intriguing conversation.
It ended with me teasing them a bit - talking about women in general don´t go for the complex in music - but preferably seeks it out in relationships
Ok - I´ll stop now...

 I'll put my tuppence worth in here. I think that it's all down to the hunter/gatherer theory. The male being "The Hunter" of the old caveman days,where he would just focus on the thing he was hunting and concentrate with his eyes on the "prey". Most males will sit and listen over and over and concentrate on the music,whereas "The Gatherer" is the female who can turn her hand to quite a few things at the same time and doesn't focus on one particular thing. Maybe they like the music that will grab their attention immediately so they can sing along after a few listens. There are exceptions,of course.

 This is just a theory after I saw a play about the differences between men and women,which was quite funny,but I can't remember the name of the play.It was a one man show by the Aussie bloke who played Joe Mangle in Neighbours