MaestroRage

I am currently playing this piece. I'm having a bit difficulty understanding the rhythm.

Not in the field of music maybe but there are SOME fields in which men would, with or without social prejudice populate. Occupations that are labor intensive for example. If women's bodies were built stronger then men's, we see a lot more of them at construction sites. But these are all very basic principles. And Corbin, I doubt any of us are so blind as to not know of these other properties. To assume otherwise is quite ignorant on your behalf. We KNOW that there is all this other stuff, but the argument here in my opinion is trying to tackle the question from an angle outside these borders. Is it really ALL social prejudice? My opinion is that it isn't. After all social prejudice is like stereotypes. It begins with a grain of truth and then is blown out of proportion.

You're right, nothing is stopping them from learning it, and nothing is stopping them from being better. But it's not a secret you have to work harder at things you're not naturally good at. Upbringing is an ideal area to argue about because it has the potential to destroy any argument in it's tracks. "well, if they raised her on nothing but composition, she'd be a great composer!" this is true, but it is also true that maybe she won't. Maybe she'll hate the field and be sloppy at it. Upbringing plays an important role but doesn't give any kind of real value. Why is it that 90+% of students in the math oriented fields are men? Why is it that a HUGE majority of builders/carpenters/architects are men? Why is it that there is a very large spiral of increases of women doctors? Mayhap it's upbringing, but do any of you deny that there are traits in women/men that would have brought them closer to that profession? If you can't seem to grab math related concepts as quickly as others around you, are you going to compete with them in that field? What if you had something they couldn't do? Still going to go on with the math route? Face it, you take what you can do naturally, excel, and then dominate with it.

I quite agree. I apologize I didn't read the full thread but it seems generally women tend to lean towards being performers while men lead towards composition. And it's been proven time and time again, men's brains HAVE been measured to be stronger at handling abstract notions better then women, where women have shown great ability to tag/arrange/remember things better then men, which of course makes perfect sense why men seem to like composing and women like to perform. Then there's that whole "Men are hunters, problem solvers, and women are gatherers" argument but hell if i'm going to open THAT can of worms.