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audience demographics
- Subject: audience demographics
- From: Jennifer Lee Davies <jen@nt.net>
- Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 20:19:16 -0400 (EDT)
My dad made an interesting comment to me the other day. It
surprised me because he doesn't often notice these kinds of things. He
noted that the Who's [dedicated] audience was mostly men. (He also noted
the demographics of the people at the pre-show gathering.)
It's been discussed in the past, but I thought it was a really
interesting point about the Who. It's traditionally men who listen to them!
(In the "Maximum R&B" book, Barnes mentions that the Who used to alter
lyrics to make them offensive to women - the idea was to discourage
"screamers".)
Personally, it's never bothered me, being in the numbered minority
on the list, as far as the sexes go. Recently, there have been a number
more women subscribing (or at least de-lurking) - which I think is great -
but there are still many more men on the list.
My theory is that most women aren't into "hairy-arsed rants" (as
someone so perfectly labelled many of the Who's tunes). I guess it takes a
special kind of girl to appreciate the Who... right, ladies? Any other
theories?
JenniferD - junior MASAWA member
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