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And then there's 'The Audiophile's Wife' about 125 blogs:
https://www.theaudiophileswife.com/2011/08/its-not-that-heavy.html
https://www.theaudiophileswife.com/2011/08/its-not-that-heavy.html
That's the EXACT opposite reason given in the video, post #1. Women are adverse to the violent, aggressive actions of people who do NOT believe in the scientific quality of cable differences.I call these two pages of comments very ignorant. I would have thought that it would have been answered quite easily in the first page. Here it is. Women are not stupid enough to believe the unscientific garbage that audiophiles love. Men are just a lot dumber in this regard. If you think you are not that dumb, that proves that you are. There, Answered.
I think there's a lot to be said about the fact that audiophilia is a sharply solo endeavor and that females tend to prefer activities that involve groups--particularly groups with other females--doing things together. As an example, my daughter likes sound quality and likes to listen critically with me, but she doesn't care to listen critically by herself.
I call these two pages of comments very ignorant. I would have thought that it would have been answered quite easily in the first page. Here it is. Women are not stupid enough to believe the unscientific garbage that audiophiles love. Men are just a lot dumber in this regard. If you think you are not that dumb, that proves that you are. There, Answered.
Thanks for recognizing this. At the end of the day, I can only speak from my own perspective, and I'm no more qualified to make generalizations than anyone else. If anything, I'm pitching in because this kind of topic comes up often in sociology, which is an area I've studied.While I appreciate @ayane 's viewpoint and willingness to talk, I think it's sad that @ayane is being called upon to explore women at large just because she's the only one here.
Respectfully, this misses the mark by quite a bit, although you do sound somewhat sarcastic. I don't believe women are socially conditioned to be more skeptical or rational than men are, and a good counterexample would be that women tend to be more likely victims of fraud, multi-level-marketing schemes, and are generally more susceptible to image-based marketing. People are not really wired to be rational thinkers regardless, but there exists a stronger social pressure on women to conform behaviorally than does on men. Status quo bias is a powerful force.I call these two pages of comments very ignorant. I would have thought that it would have been answered quite easily in the first page. Here it is. Women are not stupid enough to believe the unscientific garbage that audiophiles love. Men are just a lot dumber in this regard. If you think you are not that dumb, that proves that you are. There, Answered.
I agree that declaring the cause of such disparities to be discrimination amounts to hastily jumping to a conclusion, and I definitely agree that this is a symptom of a multifaceted issue. Still, this:The notion that any disparity of 'representation' in any field (e.g. audio) is an indication for discrimination is ideology - and a very fashionable one, at the moment. 'Reality' is typically multidimensional, thus, usually determined by a bundle of factors, not by a single one. Monocausal thinking is misleading and mostly wrong.
sounds like a leap of faith as well. I don't think there is enough - if any - compelling evidence to believe there is something essential about gender that can explain a disparity in having a hobby about sound.Couldn't it be that 'audiophilia', as heavily related to technical objects, is more attractive to males; couldn't it be that males - in general and in average - have a stronger affinity to dealing with 'objects', while females have a stronger affinity to dealing with 'persons'.
Bingo. There are lots of women audiophiles in the sphere of music and/or technology; but only a few hang out on forums due to various reasons.The people I know who really enjoy audio typically have a love for music, technology or both. Musicians, electrical engineers and those with a elevated passion for music/sound tend to be good candidates for the hobby.
I think the kind of train wreck you're implying is probably less likely to happen here, but there are still plenty of responses here that already suggest slightly sexist ways of thinking, even if in jest.I’m just hanging around, waiting for the Train wreck I expected to have happened already?
sounds like a leap of faith as well. I don't think there is enough - if any - compelling evidence to believe there is something essential about gender that can explain a disparity in having a hobby about sound.
JMHO,
Being an Audiophile requires a pretty large investment of free time. Women just don’t have that luxury. They are too busy Working full time then coming home to make dinner, do the laundry, care for and feed the Children, monitor homework and clean the house.
Wet-ass fidelity?Female can't audiophile because of a lack of an equivalent for "WAF".
'Cause we have cooties and smell bad.
You sayin' that men don't have cooties and smell bad?
JMHO,
Being an Audiophile requires a pretty large investment of free time. Women just don’t have that luxury. They are too busy Working full time then coming home to make dinner, do the laundry, care for and feed the Children, monitor homework and clean the house.
On weekends when they do have some free time. They would much rather be out in nature walking, paddling, gardening or hanging out with GF’s and being Social or out with the Children creating memories and teaching them about the world.
Being an Audiophile for the most part is a very isolated and secluded activity. Women are far more Social in general than Men.