"One Look At My Music Collection Will Show You Hoe Much I Respect Women"

This is the most painfuly accurate, hysterical, violently believable parody of people I hate I've seen since "He's thrown a kettle over a pub. What have you done?"

as fer what i own ... someone who, like myself, owns so many Zappa cds and anything by Anal Cunt (check there, too) can't really claim that his CD collection demonstrates his "respect" for women, now can it?

You take a guy who perhaps doesn't get as much female involvement as he'd like -- perhaps, so long as we're doing caricature, because he's a bit shy and intimidated or awed by women. Now imagine that he's not hugely invested in music-as-music, though he's very much open to enjoying it: this kind of person is primed to develop a pretty consuming fandom for the personality-driven female solo artists in whatever genre he likes, and in a manner that's sort of romantic -- this is the subset of let's say Bjork fandom where the fans have entered into something of a romantic relationship with the artist, where's there's as much of (or greater of) an urge to find out about the artist-as-person as there is to hear the music itself, and even the music can be taken as an expression of that artist-as-person. Boiled down this comes somewhat close to "you would like to have a girlfriend so Bjork will have to substitute for now" (because unlike the women around you, Bjork is open to your attention and you can look at pictures of her and read about her all day without that constituting "stalking") -- only I don't think it's as pathetic as that formulation sounds, because surely forming seemingly-personal connections with musicians is part of the fun of liking music.

Anyway so I think there are a small number of that kind of guy, where they might not even realize it but their musical likes are basically a big selection of crushes accomplished via music. And why would they notice? They're enjoying the music, they're entertained by the musicians, everything is basically good. (And in the stereotypical case this guy who's had Bjork as the substitute girlfriend will maybe meet a girl who's had Bjork as the substitute self and via this they'll come together).

Vast generalization yes, but okay: if you've ever spent much time working with computer people you might know exactly what I'm trying to get at.

Um, I have. And no. Either they wear the same black Pink Floyd t-shirt everyday, or listen to bad trance streams on Winamp. Or both.

This describes me so well.

call the cops!