But in general, yes i agree that women tend to have a tacky taste in music. I feel it is purely because they are less creative. I have studied music with men and women, and i only ever really had fundamental and deep debates about music with other men. Women always seemed satisfied just to play a piece perfectly, rather than understanding the piece.

I just need to develop a congruent system and don’t really have to understand the hows or whys.

Carl

1. Throughout history, where there’s war and injustice, there are men who try to find balance with the horror they participate in by aggressing on women and children. Ancient cultures had sacred prostitutes who helped warriors bridge the gap between murdering for a living an d trying to fit back in to family life. So Pentagon procurement officers justify the use of our tax dollars to supply soldiers with Playboy an d Hustler because that’s the least we can do for the body’s whacked out sexual responses to war. Please, more news on the price we pay for re-integrating trained killers.

2. At first I thought I could really use those convertible heel shoes because high heels hurt and they dictate participation. The necessity for rippling footwear in order to “look professional,” indicates a deep cultural risk in its definition of success for women. Why do we take for granted that women need dangerous shoes in order to compete professionally? Violence and destruction in cultures corresponds to the degree to which women are relegated out of public eye. Imagine if we remove even such widely accepted handicaps as obligatory high heels ?

3. No wonder people buy products that compromise their ethical well-being to get out of work. Just like terrorism breeds where there is injustice, the indignity of compromised working conditions creates workers who feel no choice but to compromise their ethics in order to cope – a civil slippery slope. Anyway, how did doctors get a monopoly on the time we need to restore?

The thread is that the more humanely we treat all beings, the more joy and well-being there is in the culture. We live with the rise of abhorrent sexual exploitation; we’re saturated by corporate calls for fear and consumption; and we’ve got a workforce whose rights to the highest ideals of democracy have been hijacked by capitalism. We watch gigantic hardware shows on the news with little regard for destroyed families and no remorse for devastating the fruits of many generations’ labor. Meanwhhile, we fret over how high our heels are.

At worst, the concepts of value, meaning, purpose become non-existent when viewed through the lens of a modern science, which tells us that the universe is a deterministic machine including humans and that free will is illusory. A machine with no ostensible purpose can never be said to be broken or have some internal states that are good and others that are bad. Machines just exist and can have no morality since they have have no choice.

most of the girls I know listen to fantastic music; the girls who don’t, are the sorority girls who want Timberlake and the gay guy from American Idol 24/7, and the fraternity men on their level just want similarly uncomplicated generic radio-rock; women get their superficial happiness, and men get their superficial everyone can growl along “rock”; men don’t seem better off here.

you mention power; you could substitute every word about music, for voting, working, nascar, IT/computing etc., as these and every other area is dominated by men(and we can’t say we’re better at voting simply because we’ve done it longer); through the history of the world have pushed women out; simply because we dominate the music field doesn’t mean we are predisposed to making music. Just because we are men doesn’t mean it’s natural to wear pants and not skirts (scottish did it); it’s just socially imbued information/drive/desire, though I realize there are plenty of differences between men and women that make them better at different things.

Also, when you say “this is not based a specific scientific study,” do you mean it’s based wholly on your own observations and not on a study at all?