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Why men think there are few women into audio?

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Adaboy5 said:
An Ice T fan! I remember that cover when the tape was released.
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How could any red blooded male of the species forget? :)

Yes...I was pondering earlier today how I need to record this album to tape, so I can play it on my 'Ghetto Blaster'...Vinyl seems inauthentic in this context... :) (Though in the Lyrics Ice-T does refer to LP's) :)
 
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GarrardZero1 said:
Yes...I was pondering earlier today how I need to record this album to tape, so I can play it on my 'Ghetto Blaster'...Vinyl seems inauthentic in this context... :) (Though in the Lyrics Ice-T does refer to LP's) :)
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I have the OG tape some where in a box. I need to look for it. And yes it belongs on a tape blasting from the power of 8 D batteries!
 
Genov said:
“AK rules state no comments on Moderation in public posts. It’s real basic.”

This according to a panel of “gay” judges??? Or is the modern terminology, “sexually challenged”?
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I don't speak for hjames and I know she is fully capable of responding for herself, so my comment here represents only my own opinion. She is an individual and I am not trying to act like I am on one "team" or another

But I think this is wrong and this illustrates what we have been discussing. Comments like this cause harm and limit what AK could be.
 
Genov said:
“AK rules state no comments on Moderation in public posts. It’s real basic.”

This according to a panel of “gay” judges??? Or is the modern terminology, “sexually challenged”?
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You've been around long enough to not be stirring the sheet like that.
That got ya kicked out of this friendly adult discussion -
push harder and I'm sure the mods can agree to a site-wide ban for ya.
 
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This thread is a funny read, The title kind of had me saying sarcastically to myself, this should be good.

Why men think there are few women into audio?​


I am not sure this is true ^^ well for me anyway... I think the question should be "Why do men seem to collect and hoard audio gear more then women"? - Now this is something that I can admit to when dealing with the women in my life. :)

As an avid music listener since birth, and have 4 sisters who all share my love for Music and Audio and a wife who is also a big music lover. My mom is also a wealth of knowledge when dealing with Music history, especially of the 70s & 80s metal era. My grandmothers on both sides of the family were both huge huge music lovers, on my moms side my my Grandma gave me a love for early country, Alabama and Mearl Haggard, Eddie Novak and the such, on the flip side on my dads side my grandma was a huge Elvis fan, it was almost to much lol she had a massive 6" airbrushed on velvet Elvis picture hanging above her fireplace for as long as i can remember, we still have her album collection in the family, have a number of the early sun recordings. Both of them had a few tube cabinets in there houses. The Women in my life have pushed me towards music more than anyone in my life.

I think some men like to collect the gear, but that is not to say there are not a lot of women who collect gear as well, Just a few months ago i purchased a really clean HealthKit AA-30 tube amp for a lady in my area. She was a hip chick too, she knew her gear, we start talking price and she starts hounding me on the price of the 7199s and how she had already set the bias and swapped a few caps. She knew her gear enough to get another few hundred bucks out of me... I also sold a Pioneer CTF-4242 to @needforspeed last year, that was pulled from a complete stack owned by a woman. She had recently upgraded to a different system, and was letting her original purchase she bought new in the 70s go to a new home. I still have the table to that stack.

I think more men hoard and collect gear, why that is i have no idea. Maybe we think it will be worth something at some point in time. All i can say is in my experience the love of audio is not even 50/50% when dealing with the genders, its 100/100% - I think there are more women who are more into the music and listening and there are a lot of us guys (myself included) who seem to hoard the gear.
 
GarrardZero1 said:
Sounds like you and your lady friend need to stay off social media (and I speak from the cheap seats...) :)
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This is my point. If I disagree, people will tell me to leave.

So if I want to learn more about long tail pair phase inverters on this site, I have 2 options:

- Ignore the blatant sexism and misconduct that is normatively on our front page
- Leave

Either way there is a mechanism where I must pay (become complicit in people harming people) for a benefit (learning about topology)

Doesn't that seem wrong?
 
asilker said:
This is my point. If I disagree, people will tell me to leave.

So if I want to learn more about long tail pair phase inverters on this site, I have 2 options:

- Ignore the blatant sexism and misconduct that is normatively on our front page
- Leave

Either way there is a mechanism where I must pay (become complicit in people harming people) for a benefit (learning about topology)

Doesn't that seem wrong?
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- Ignore the blatant sexism and misconduct that is normatively on our front page

^^

you cant control others - So yes this is correct ^^
 
GarrardZero1 said:
Sounds like you and your lady friend need to stay off social media, at least until you grow some thicker skins
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The thing is, not everyone needs the same thickness of skin, since not everyone is treated the same. The fundamental unfairness of that is off-putting for many. Of course, some people like unfairness, when they are not the ones getting the short end of the stick.

But, sure, if one cannot take what is going on at a particular website, one has the option to just not be there. The characteristics of a website affect who wants to be there and who doesn't, regardless of what the purported purpose of the website might be. In the case of an online forum, the participants all affect what the overall character of the site is, regardless of what the purpose of the site is.
 
asilker said:
This is my point. If I disagree, people will tell me to leave.

So if I want to learn more about long tail pair phase inverters on this site, I have 2 options:

- Ignore the blatant sexism and misconduct that is normatively on our front page
- Leave

Either way there is a mechanism where I must pay (become complicit in people harming people) for a benefit (learning about topology)

Doesn't that seem wrong?
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Choices choices. You decide. Not my problem. :)
 
Pyrrho said:
The thing is, not everyone needs the same thickness of skin, since not everyone is treated the same. The fundamental unfairness of that is off-putting for many. Of course, some people like unfairness, when they are not the ones getting the short end of the stick.

But, sure, if one cannot take what is going on at a particular website, one has the option to just not be there. The characteristics of a website affect who wants to be there and who doesn't, regardless of what the purported purpose of the website might be. In the case of an online forum, the participants all affect what the overall character of the site is, regardless of what the purpose of the site is.
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Everyone is an Avatar here...Sex has SFA to do with it... State your case...and if you can't stand the cold...find gainful employment elsewhere. :)
 
asilker said:
The following is a direct quote from a text message I received this morning from a good friend who is an extremely talented electronics builder. She does not participate in forums but does occasionally scan forums for technical information, but she saw this thread this week.

To be exceedingly clear, I do not think this represents the viewpoints of all women. I am not the mouthpiece of all women, and I am posting this with my friend's express permission because I believe this illustrates the reality that there are many perspectives in our hobby which might not reach these forum spaces due to "barriers to entry":

"All that to say: I stay off forums now because I can't stand watching people be wrong and not back up their opinions with data
I can't stand people telling me that I'm not a real fan if I don't have a $10k system
I don't need another thing to spend money on when I'm trying to have fun
And I don't like hanging out in communities where people who are respected and listened to disrespect my friends and colleagues."
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She'd be fun at a party. Really, she'd be fun.
 
GarrardZero1 said:
Everyone is an Avatar here...Sex has SFA to do with it... State your case...and if you can't stand the cold...find gainful employment elsewhere. :)
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The point is, YOU don't get to tell somewhat else how they should not be offended.
The rules are set and stated by the Owners and Staff of the site. Civility is that when someone says it's getting brutal,
you can apologize and restate in gentler terms - not "Your skin needs to be tougher" or "Go somewhere else."
 
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Watching this thread it was just a matter of time before someone stepped in it, I'm surprised it took this long.

In before the inevitable ... :lurk:
 
Note my username here is an initial and my last name - and for quite a while my avatar
was a picture of my set of JBLs. My Gear, not my identity, gave me cred,
and for a lot of folks, I was just someone named James ...

Honestly, I've been on the internet since before browsers, (ARPAnet),
so I KNEW it was a primarily male based domain and took precautions.

L200ducklips-withoutGrill_AVA.jpg or - right-ava.jpg
 
spicer said:
Ya, but it's fun around the edges.
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I often think of this metaphor regarding threads here:

Imagine a daycare where "NO DANCING IS ALLOWED!" But music comes on, and the children try so hard to find little movements and wiggles they can make that won't be reprimanded. After getting spanked many times, they resort to toe-tapping in the air and silently drumming their fingers on the tabletops.
 
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