ImmortalDiotima |
09-02-2010 05:14 PM |
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Originally Posted by dankrsta
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As I understood from your last two paragraphs, under 2) and 3), it all boils down to numbers - how many guys have good taste and how many girls. That line of thinking will inevitably lead us to the conclusion that there are more men in the majority of activities that demand passion, obsession and time.
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I'm not really sure what you are arguing here. I agree with the claim others have made that in general, fewer women have good taste in music than men. So yes... it's a numbers game. It was never anything else.
I'm confused by your final line... are you saying that thinking in terms of numbers will inevitably lead us to the conclusion that there are more men in the activity BECAUSE it is an activity that involves obsession and men are obviously more obsessive?
Or are you saying, literally, what you said, which is that thinking in terms of numbers will lead us to the conclusion that men are more involved in activities that demand obsession.
Because thinking in terms of numbers does not reasonably lead to the conclusion that men are more involved in activities that demand obsession... the conclusion and premise of that argument have nothing to do with each other.
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I think you mentioned in one of your previous posts that men are more obsessive in nature.
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I was referencing a previous poster's claim that men are more obsessive. I wasn't claiming that. It was an if/then.
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But, when a woman has the will and energy to invest time in developing an extensive musical taste, do you still think her taste will be inferior to that of man's?
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I never claimed that when two people of good taste are compared the man will always beat out the woman. I'm not sure where you're getting that from. All anyone said was that there are more men with good taste in music than women. As I said before, taste is subjective so I'm not sure how you would determine that anyway. But if we're talking about two people with passion for music, no I don't think that a man's passion is always deeper than a woman's and I don't think that that should be inferred from what I have said.
What has been clearly stated is simply that there are more men who are passionate about music than there are women. The possible explanation has been offered that men are simply more obsessive in nature. Nothing else.
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