Women Hifi owners...

[Marco]

Yes, and when its a bit stubbly, just after being shaved, you get a hell of a rash from muff-diving

Marco.

[Pigmy Pony]

Well if you're not prepared to wear the gimp mask it serves you right...

[Marco]

Imagine if I was wearing *your* mask!

Marco,

[Marco]

Yawn.... We're onto gimp masks now!

Marco.

[Light Dependant Resistor]

Is it fair to say the thread has drifted ? ever so slightly off topic.
If that's OK, perhaps this might steer it back eventually https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-...shire-49755334

I think the connectivity of hifi somehow is a set back for women, which might go part of the way to explain their reluctance.
As example have you ever heard any women discussing, banana plugs or RCA ? But i am sure they appreciate good audio
when they hear it.

[Joe]

Is it fair to say the thread has drifted ? ever so slightly off topic.
If that's OK, perhaps this might steer it back eventually https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-...shire-49755334

I think the connectivity of hifi somehow is a set back for women, which might go part of the way to explain their reluctance.
As example have you ever heard any women discussing, banana plugs or RCA ? But i am sure they appreciate good audio
when they hear it.

I'm sure they do. It's the geekery/OCD bit they don't get. In the same way, you see very few women train-spotting. I don't know whether that's because (some) mens' brains are 'wired' in a certain way, so that they care about minor variations which pass most people by.

[jandl100]

It's the geekery/OCD bit they don't get. In the same way, you see very few women train-spotting. I don't know whether that's because (some) mens' brains are 'wired' in a certain way, so that they care about minor variations which pass most people by.

Shoes and handbags.
Hairstyles.
Clothes in general. Fashion.
TV 'soaps'.
'Strictly'.

Wimmin can get quite obsessive about those.

So I think it's a widespread human thing - men and women just tend to obsess about different things and maybe in different ways.

There are, of course, exceptions to these generalities.
-- and happily I am married to one of them. The thought of being married to a soap-obsessed fashion victim Strictly Come Dancing fanatic just does not bear thinking about.

[walpurgis]

We obviously have two topic lines going here. Lets combine them to rationalise the thread. Hands up, anybody who knows of a Hi-Fi owning woman who is a military strategist or historian!

[Marco]

Shoes and handbags.
Hairstyles.
Clothes in general. Fashion.
TV 'soaps'.
'Strictly'.

Wimmin can get quite obsessive about those.

So I think it's a widespread human thing - men and women just tend to obsess about different things and maybe in different ways.

There are, of course, exceptions to these generalities.
-- and happily I am married to one of them. The thought of being married to a soap-obsessed fashion victim Strictly Come Dancing fanatic just does not bear thinking about.

Ditto! Or some vacuous, high-maintenance, social-media obsessed fashion victim.

Del does like to dress nicely though, and looks after herself, so loves well-made, good quality, often slightly 'quirky' clothes (after all she has a degree in fashion and textiles, as at one point she was going to be a clothes designer like her cousin in Germany), but she's not obsessive about it.

The only thing either of are "obsessive" about is living well and enjoying life!

Marco.

[Marco]

I'm sure they do. It's the geekery/OCD bit they don't get. In the same way, you see very few women train-spotting...

And if you find one, run a mile!

I think when you have a hobby that you're regularly and actively involved in, and most importantly, passionate about, the finer details or "minor variations", as you say, will always matter, especially if you want to be good at or knowledgeable about whatever it is, and have studied it to some degree.

Therefore, I don't see women being any less prone to that behaviour than men, when it comes to their hobbies or passions. It's simply the passions and hobbies that may be different.

Marco.