Is prog music for the males?

Oh no not this again...

Do yourself a favour and use the search function. You'll see this subject having been discussed to death and back. Seems that we have at least one or two of these each year. Always ends up with the same results: some know female prog fans whilst others don't. Mostly though these threads consist of overly analytical men trying to shoehorn a theory via semi-philosophical generalisations about women.

Ok, just found that search button there. I have been in forum where I never understood how to search old issues. But anyway in the first place I really wasn´t going to be one, who say women shouldn´t listen prog music. I think everybody should listen what they want and don´t really think there are music for genders. Also I wasn´t interested to start to generalize women´s psych, find it naturally ridicilous cause I am man. The issues that I was interested were, is there something on prog music that doesn´t interest women or is it just that all male domination in rock music overall that causes this thing. I haven´t been long here and of course I can´t know gender for the nicknames, but anyway to me it seems there´s a male domination here as it was the former forum I was. But if you have discussed it lot without any interesting results, we can stop this into this.

Yeah, this subject raises its ugly head several times a year. People do seem to get wound up by it. Prog music is not FOR men, it's for whoever can deal with it and appreciate it, but I'm fairly confident that if you done a head count of everyone on the planet who was into progressive rock, most would be male. I won't make the mistake of trying to fathom out why that is again.

Dunno why it’s such a big deal ?????

^ Also - and rather more tragically - some men think women are inferior to men and the “fact” that “women don't like [subtext: don't understand] prog” is in some way evidence of this. These chaps are what we in the medical profession call 'silly t0ssers'.

Edited by Mascodagama - December 19 2017 at 04:40

Raff wrote: Longtime female member of this forum here. Been into prog since the age of 11, though my tastes have evolved to encompass a lot of "progressive though not exactly prog" music. Have also written a lot of reviews in the past ten years or so. There are quite a few others like me, many of whom I know personally. And I also lived in Finland for almost 6 years. Lovely country - would go back there tomorrow if I could !

Have to say at first, really great you are here! As in the next comments we all can see, there are not too many women. Great to hear also you have had connections to Finland. This is beautiful country, but naturally there are also too many terrible things too, as in the all countries in the world. Also, what´s really interesting, I started to listen prog also maybe age of 10 or 11 (I had heard it a lot earlier, but didn´t really undestand it before that age, it was Pink Floyd that hit me totally that age).

Have to say, that I am so much in my own old school music world and not interested most of the new music, so I haven´t got any idea who is Taylor Swift or what kind of music she make.

someone_else wrote: Mortte wrote: Have to say, that I am so much in my own old school music world and not interested most of the new music, so I haven´t got any idea who is Taylor Swift or what kind of music she make. At least you know - or guess right - that Taylor Swift is a female. Until four minutes ago, when I looked up her entry on wikipedia, I knew only the name but I had not the slightest idea of its gender. Maybe she appeals more to women, younger or worldly people - I am neither. Anyway, although prog is not intended for men, progmistresses are rare on this side of the silver rainbow .

It was just a quess . BTW in Finnish language there is no he/she, just one word "hän" meaning both. So you don´t have to quess gender. But I am not saying this country is more equal than others.

Largely, I believe so. You don't need to be a statistician to see that the membership here is mostly male. Ditto the composition of most Prog bands.

But individuals will vary and go against the "norms." This is true of many things.
As to the reasons for these broad gender-specific differences in human behaviour and interests, that's complex and often a controversial, passion-laden topic to wade into. Suffice to say that biology, individual genetics, environment, and societal norms and expectations all play a role. Or so I believe.

Edited by Peter - December 19 2017 at 06:33