Progressive rock: a man's genre?

My wife has said that the music I listen to goes on too long, is dull, and often sounds like soundtrack music, which would be fine if it was background music ina  film, but not to listen to.  I do like pop music that she likes, such as Abba (it's her favourite band, but I still know Abba better than her).  The only ones I can think of that she has liked in PA that I've played for her are Mellow Candle, Supertramp, and Alan Parsons Project (plus various songs by various artists such as as some PFM).

A complaint I've heard from various females is that the music I listen to is weird and not melodic.  I get the same weird complaint about music from males, but they don't complain about it not being melodic.  I don't know anyone in real life who shares my Prog Archives-type tastes in music  (some of it, sure, like King Crimson, but not the more avant-oriented music).

I definitely think that prog rock (and artsy fartsy music in general) is more related toward the male mentality. Sure, prog/art rock had a few very notable females, like Annie Haslan or Kate Bush, but take the leading forces behind the genre: Fripp, the entire bands of Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis, Rush, Jethro Tull, VDGG, Gentle Giant, Camel, etc. etc. They were male-fronted, male-written songs and bands. In 1971 most guys had a choice between Aqualung and Carole King's Tapestry. Which do you think most adolescent males would rather listen to? Locomotive Breath or So Far Away?

Music and the arts in general are very much male-oriented. What are most female writers noted for? Vampire love stories or well-to-do british women looking for a husband. Anne Rice blah blah blah. Where's the female 1984, the female Brave New World? It's not that women are less artistic (but in my experience, most women seem more interested in painting/photography than any other art, but that's nothing more than an assessment of my locale, not a generalization), it's not that women are less artistic. They just spent so long being dominated by men in nearly every way that they didn't have a chance to grow into it. So really, if women would rather hear Justin Bieber over Jethro Tull, it's men's fault for being so damn vile. That, and most girls don't care about space operas and WWII battles and such. I don't either, but hey!

My point is that of course prog is man-oriented and male-dominated. Now that I've said that, let me go ahead and say that starting from the 1930's and up, from Billie Holiday to Joan Baez and Carole King and Kate Bush and Cocteau Twins and Joni Mitchell and Janis Joplin and all that, some women have made some flabbergastingly brilliant music to my ears. 

That takes the fun out of it. Can't we find a logical solution? What's the point of debating factual evidence? Either more guys like prog than girls or more girls like prog than guys. Why? Well, it's a trillion reasons. We can speculate all we want, but until we find out through cold, hard, psychological study and fact, this will end up being dick joke central.

Which brings me to my thesis statement: What did the penis say to the mailman? Hey, pal, how can you get aHEAD around here?

Get it? He's living in a residential area where he can send and receive postage! Har har!

So yes, why do more men like Genesis than women? Why do more men prefer 1984 over Interview with a Vampire? Who is a better writer, Anne Rice or George Orwell? Who the better songwriter, Tom Waits or Carole King? It's an opinion, there. It'll be sociological, genetic, psychological, circumstantial, emotional, and a big chain. Its a big chain, it's a grim and whip dim ganglyroo. Vim and bandersnatch for you, yon vorpal sword with golden hue, can cut with wring wrought snapping, true, and slice the bandersnatch in two. Hello my honey, hell my darlin', hello my ragtime gal!

Hey, not all of us have been here since 2008