It's this kind of condescending bullshit that causes most of the females
on the list to lurk rather than post. Guess what? We don't need the male
members of the species to turn us on to "intense, convoluted" things.
We are all quite capable of discovering music on our own. In fact, I
would say that I have managed to convert quite a large number of males
to this music that, according to some, is so convoluted that I can't quite
understand it.
I'm just as big of a sad trainspotter as the rest of you and if the girls that
you choose to covort with are incapable of understanding idm then
perhaps you should reevaluate your choice of friends instead of making
sweeping generalizations about the rest of us.
I believe we already had this argument when someone on the list made
the comment that "girlfriends just don't understand." This music is not
made for men only and the females that you see at shows and flipping
through the record bins are not only there because their boyfriend
dragged them there.
It is also completely erroneous to assume that all we like is the "gentle"
stuff like SAW 2 and, as is implied below, that we only like it because
some guy turned us on to it.
This really needs to end immediately. It's not just people on this list either.
I can't tell you how many times a person has come into my apartment and
said, "Wow! Your boyfriend sure has a lot of records/cds." Perhaps
what we should be examining is what exactly makes men think that
females are incapable of having their own tastes and interests?
More men than women listen to idm for the same reason more men than
women like to stick their heads under the hoods of their cars when
something goes wrong. There's an intense, convoluted process going
on in
each and men are culturally (or otherwise) predisposed to desiring an
understanding of that process (or at least pretending they do).
Still, I've turned a couple ex-girlfriends of mine on to Aphex, Autechre
and such...and I do not exaggerate when I say that almost *every* girl
I've ever played one of Aphex's "Selected Ambient Works" discs for has
loved it.
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