The same reason that men don’t like paisley and love plaid. Paisley leads you around and then disappears. Then paisley reappears and you go along again. The notes in 448 are strung together so with no breaks in them. Plaid, you know where you are going and you just go till you get there. Then stop and change directions.
Try mowing a man’s lawn in paisley. Music and weaving lines are all the same. Men want to know where you are going and when you are gong to be back and what you will do and the schedule is rigid. Women have no trouble getting in the car and driving around and stopping here and there. This drives men crazy.
So true. Though a favorite shirt of my wild youth was purplish paisley. Lost it in the Guadalupe while canoeing over a waterfall, accidentally. Always stay to the left of the giant rock.
Now my favorite shirt is plaid, you are right.
Mozart and Bach trigger the spatial circuits of the mind. They create intricate structures which are pleasing to the mind’s eye.