@audio2design,
'More accurate would be there is brain activity before we are able to communicate an intention.'
Ah yes, the greatest mystery bequeathed by Doctor Freud.
The workings of the unconscious mind.
Who will unravel it first?
The race is indeed on.
The marketeers with their endless thirst for profits via ever increasing consumer control versus the research scientists with their FMRI machines, often funded by err hang on, the marketeers??
Consumers of the world unite, stop the steal. |
Women, in case it's been unnoticed, are physically different, and also have different priorities.
There's no reason why they shouldn't be different or should have the same priorities as men, is there?
These differences seem to be even more exacerbated with computer technology, science fiction and high performance cars.
My 16 year old daughter has very little interest in the current Hollywood zeitgeist of superheroes and science fiction. She and her friends have terms for those that do, and they are not pleasant.
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@mewsickbuff,
"I do think "meiatflask" hit a big nail on the head. Women who have kids usually don’t have the time or means to invest in "equipment." I didn’t start buying expensive (expensive to me) equipment until my kids had all moved out of the house."
That’s it, in a nutshell. Biological differences.
Of course social norms are changing, particularly in the western world, and men are now usually more involved in child rearing.
Hence the predominance of the more mature audiophile, as well as the younger ones.
Family life tends does to get in the way of this hobby. Heck, I had to sell my turntable with the arrival of my daughter!
I wasn’t pushed, or forced, it was simply a question of priorities and the right thing to do.
Was is worth it?
Ask Homer Simpson. You’d get a similar answer. Oh the role of the poor harassed male in these difficult times..!
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@tony1954,
The world is not getting more polarized. It's slowly waking up.
If you thought 2020 was dramatic, I can guarantee you 2021 is going to be a lot more 'fun'.
Especially the way things are going.
Meanwhile you just keep worrying why there aren't more females suffering with audiophilia...
"Why do more men like audio?
Is it stereotyping?" Maybe it's mono typing or quad. Did you consider that?
If you really wanted to know maybe it would be more appropriate to ask the females in your life. Rather than asking a bunch of predominantly male audiophiles.
Was it genuine interest or did virtue signalling get the better of you? Was it worth it?
Nevermind, it will pass. |
This can be a really divisive subject. Political too.
I remember when I used to play competitive chess, someone would ask why aren't there more women GMs and why isn't there a woman world champion? etc.
Some still do.
It seems to bother a few journalists that the top 100, maybe even top 1000 chess geeks are mostly comprised of men. It all got so thorny that FIDE had to ensure there are now 2 different world championships, the women's world championship, and the open world championship.
Once again, you might want to ask, why can't we be different? Why is there this need for some to want to homogenise clear biological differences?
Thankfully this lunacy doesn't yet extend to combat sports or track and field.
I've nothing against encouraging more women to participate in this mainly male hobby. Their company would surely be welcomed, especially to ease the pressure cooker intensity at some of these testosterone fuelled audio shows.
However in my experience hardly any of them have shown much interest. To push further usually just means digging a bigger hole.
Even the ones who do go, often reluctant wives and girlfriends, seem to act as if they wished they were somewhere else.
How strange? It's almost as if they were somehow different, and had different interests.
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@mahgister,
"IQ means little anyway....."
Are you sure about that? Have you tried hanging out with those above 120 and below 80?
I find through my interactions with some people that I’m constantly learning, and that with some others I’m caretaking.
Is it also just a statistical anomaly that people with higher IQs tend to be more successful in their chosen endeavours?
Intelligence matters, doesn’t it?
Who wants to deny that?
IQ tests are not the complete picture, no one would say that, but after over a century of refinement, they’re probably a good an indicator of it as we have right now.
Again, let’s ask why we do feel this need to homogenise differences?
I am not you, you are not me, but we can try, if we want, to cross that distance through communication, mutual respect and honesty.
Can’t we?
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@danvignau ,
"And, since it was mentioned, how much money do women spend on things to make them pretty, i.e.shoe comment?"
As long as we remain human, physical attractiveness will remain important.
It always did for many women, but now some men are feeling that pressure too.
The cosmetics/fashion/health industry probably dwarfs the audio one by a factor of millions. |
@rok2id,
’Maybe, just maybe, women are too intelligent to buy into, what a person has to buy into, in order to be considered an ’audiophile’.’
Women usually have a different and more complex relationship with their biology than men do. Hence men tend to indulge in flights of fantasy rather more than women who get regular periodic reminders of reality.
Whether this is a good or a bad thing can depend upon one’s outlook or the use this indulging is being out to.
Can you imagine a woman stressing over cable differences? Or getting into a debate over amplifier topology?
There has been a very clever economically fuelled movement over the past 70 years to get women to behave as if they were men.
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