Prog’s appeal to women

Antennas wrote: Asyte2c00 wrote: They lack the patience to truly appreciate the virtues of the music.  o_O... ??? Really??? Calls for a post from me, ProgLover since 1977 - and very, very female indeed. I'm afraid you guys have been meeting/looking at/fancying the wrong ladies so far...

hahahahha you go girl.....

Women ? they are very creative and stuff however... when we look back at history most of the great inventions were thought up and designed by men and thats a fact ! Prog being very innovated I feel goes over womens heads its as if womens & mens brains are hardwired slightly different to each other.

The other thing is women are more likely to be suckered in by band image (pretty boys) .. and since there arent that many prog bands with pretty boys , this is another issue in itself thats sure to segregate women.

Our lack of maternal instincts is replaced with an appreciation for extreme sports and art.  Though saying this I have met the odd women that likes prog. Just like us guys being differant to each other women are also. 

The situation that this topic addresses goes all the way back to our childhood , when little girls were fed the crap of meeting a handsome prince and they played with their ken & Barbie dolls while us boys were building a dodgy flying fox or Billy Cart and breaking our arms and legs, this is when the formative hardwiring is created in the brain and why we like what we do.   (just a theory)

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I tink it's the fault of the musical industry that they always try to sell another music to the womens or maybe the diferent type of education for mens an womens, so, the most of the girls want to listen other type of music that the society tink is "for womens". But I know some girls that they like prog, that's a good signal that the things are changing, Barbie and Britney Spears are lossing the battle.

thanos wrote: if i find a girl with rush and pain of salvation as favourite bands,i'll marry her!!!

You risk to be a bachelor all your life.

If you'll meet a pretty girl who likes, for instance, Pink Floyd, don't let her go. 

I don't know why women are so turned off to progressive music, but I know that they definately are.  Some women like whatever their man likes, and some women have their own tastes.  I think one of the reasons why women don't like prog is because it's not a gratuitous genre.  The showmanship isn't like that of pop bands or straight-up metal bands.  The focus is more on the music.  I think progressive music misses a lot of the non-musical components that women like.

God only knows.

Different sex, different brains. They have a lot of other pleasures.

Or maybe you meet wrong girls. 

I know there are exceptions, so before you read this please bear in mind that nothing is ever a hard and fast statement!

But what is it about prog that leaves most girls/women turned off. When I show my guy mates an ELP dvd complete with spinning piano or put on Animals they find it relatively interesting and love the showmanship of some of the bands, even if they dont get into it full time they acknowledge it. But for the most part whenever i try to play/show a girl prog they just look bemused and ask why play listen to something that goes on for half an hour? And thats just pompous, is there really any need to build an actual wall in front of the band!

What is it turns the vast majority of women off about it all?