Men are more “intellectual” music listeners?

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“I let my uterus do the listening!”
Lesley Douglas, head of popular music at the BBC, has said that men “tend to be more interested in the intellectual side of music,” while women are more “emotional.”

Addressing the issue of making 6 Music more accessible to women in an interview with Radio 4’s Feedback programme, Douglas said: “It’s partly how you talk about music. For women, there tends to be more emotional reaction to music. Men tend to be more interested in the intellectual side of the music, the tracks, where albums have been made, that sort of thing.”

Seriously, we might as well hold our iPods up to our vaginas.

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