Why does prog attrack more males, not females?

jammun wrote: The T wrote: ^Men are usually more power-hungry than women... though society is changing... Apparently you've never met the female managers I've had the pleasure of working for over the years. Edit:  the male managers are no better.

I think that since traditionally women have not had too much power, that when they get it they tend to go a little overboard. Kind of like a college kid binge drinking on their 21st birthday, whereas an older person has learned how to hold their liquor.

^Men are usually more power-hungry than women... though society is changing...

You guys are scary the SHEET out of me. If I ever had a long term partner I want her to be SMART, POLITICAL, CREATIVE, MAYBE LIKE THE RED SOX,

JUST LIKE ME (except for the creative part, unless you count the endless crap I do)

you guys are saying, and I quote

"women find politics, sports and music boring to talk about"

It's a penis thang. 

This isn't directed at you Mr Llama in any kind of rebuttal sort of way, but just an observation of the whole thread:

I don't think anyone is offended, but for myself, I think embarrassed is a better word for it, there is just something juvenile and naive about all this, hard to explain, just a gut reaction.

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?

Edited by Deathrabbit - April 23 2010 at 17:28

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

What's a female? 

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.

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...