Sex and Talk Radio
Aug. 12th, 2003 04:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serenissimaAt my previous job, there was a small portable radio that we shared to provide us with a little noise in the quiet basement. I liked listening to either rock or classical music, until I got tired of noise after a few hours. Two of my three male coworkers enjoyed listening to talk radio as much as music (the third was in the other room, even though the radio belonged to him).
My male cousin, who drives the carpool to work most mornings, has a talk show on the radio about as often as he puts on music. I mentioned it to him this morning; he says it "stimulates the mind."
My boyfriend often puts on talk radio on his long drives to & from school, to help keep him awake. He says he occasionally likes to get angry, just as some people like to be frightened sometimes.
Most talk radio hosts are men.
Are men more likely than women to appreciate talk radio?
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Pedantic grammar peeve:
People (and animals in general) do not have the attribute of "gender." "Gender" is an attribute of parts of speech. Parts of speech are masculine or feminine, or neuter. Creatures have the property of "sex." They are male or female, or hermaphrodite.
But people are so used to "sex" referring to the act that they don't like to use it to refer to the attribute. Hence, they fall back on the technically incorrect "gender." This is so well established now that it's pretty pointless for me to quibble over it.
My male cousin, who drives the carpool to work most mornings, has a talk show on the radio about as often as he puts on music. I mentioned it to him this morning; he says it "stimulates the mind."
My boyfriend often puts on talk radio on his long drives to & from school, to help keep him awake. He says he occasionally likes to get angry, just as some people like to be frightened sometimes.
Most talk radio hosts are men.
Are men more likely than women to appreciate talk radio?
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Pedantic grammar peeve:
People (and animals in general) do not have the attribute of "gender." "Gender" is an attribute of parts of speech. Parts of speech are masculine or feminine, or neuter. Creatures have the property of "sex." They are male or female, or hermaphrodite.
But people are so used to "sex" referring to the act that they don't like to use it to refer to the attribute. Hence, they fall back on the technically incorrect "gender." This is so well established now that it's pretty pointless for me to quibble over it.
