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Didn't get the memo....
Mar. 9th, 2014 04:36 am"Who are you going with?"
...
"My sister's boyfriend. He's taking me to see Hatfield and the North"
"Never heard of them. Can I come too?"
"No," said Benjamin decisively. You wouldn't like the music. It's very complex and difficult. A bit like Henry Cow."
"Never heard of him either."
"It's just not the sort of thing girls like, I'm afraid"
(The Rotters' Club, 94).
...which I am only reading because it is named after a Hatfield and the North album.
It seems odd that women wouldn't like Hatfield & the North; their sound is whimsical and angelic (what with the airy soprano chorus of Northettes). And of course it's not stereotypically masculine, either; most men would call the entire genre of progressive rock effeminate. Rather, it's a male dominated thing for the same reason that analytic philosophy is a male dominated thing--whatever that reason is. (I stare grimly at the textbook bell curve for IQ showing more outliers at either end among men... and hope for a nicer explanation.)
...
"My sister's boyfriend. He's taking me to see Hatfield and the North"
"Never heard of them. Can I come too?"
"No," said Benjamin decisively. You wouldn't like the music. It's very complex and difficult. A bit like Henry Cow."
"Never heard of him either."
"It's just not the sort of thing girls like, I'm afraid"
(The Rotters' Club, 94).
...which I am only reading because it is named after a Hatfield and the North album.
It seems odd that women wouldn't like Hatfield & the North; their sound is whimsical and angelic (what with the airy soprano chorus of Northettes). And of course it's not stereotypically masculine, either; most men would call the entire genre of progressive rock effeminate. Rather, it's a male dominated thing for the same reason that analytic philosophy is a male dominated thing--whatever that reason is. (I stare grimly at the textbook bell curve for IQ showing more outliers at either end among men... and hope for a nicer explanation.)
