Prog’s appeal to women

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?

God only knows.

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

Or maybe you meet wrong girls. 

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.

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 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.

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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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.....

Antennas wrote:  micky... It's indeed hard to find ProgLoving Women, I know... but I tell you, good looking ProgLoving Men aren't that often to be found either. Most of them are of the  category! Only joking of course...

and.... true in my case..  when God was handing out good looks... he sent me back twice to the good musical taste line.

It's not hard to figure out. Just look at your typical male in the average band in the following areas-

• Pop - pretty boy image
• Rock & Metal - rugged (warrior-like) image
• prog - mr average image

Does this mean women are more shallow than men? Probably not- just look at some of the posts above which state but she's got to be pretty. Or is it something to do with baser survival and mating instincts, millions of years old. Of course if this is true, in this day and age, it is probably the geek who is going to make the most money and have the best chance of survival in the human jungle and mating instincts should have changed to suit, so I guess it's back to being shallow.

women who like prog do not go out to show themselves. that's why we do not see too many women who like prog. however, i think there are more than we think.

if rachel jones is a prog girl, then many other beautiful girls are able to be it too: the condition is that they have to not focus all the time on their looks, the shopping centers and the tendencies, so that they can have time to enjoy the prog music.

for many women, the definition of intimacy is not to enjoy alone prog music: it is to be in a bed with a man who tries to warm her frozen feet...

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