Why the obsession with the lowest octave

I confess i was being naughty. (8^Q...
But I do love the upper registers way more than the lowest.
My wants in a system must have clarity, upper end being vital. The times i have had a sub it was great with chamber music, but awful with any rock.
I would turn it off and on depending on what was playing. Being lazy, that got tiring fast.
My idea of really bad low frequency is driving, then hearing some morons' thumping crap subs from five cars away at a stoplight, and being stuck till' the light turns green. Best Buy used to be horrible, running loud thumping crap constantly.. My friends (female) refused to even GO to a Best Buy because of the thumping going on. Thank goodness they have stopped that.
So I am a bit biased against the trash bass, where if I could get that perfect real low frequency sound from an orchestra, or quartet, i would be happy. But then i would have to put up with the crap from rock albums in the lowest octave, and back to sub on? sub off? and forget that.
Plus I despise hearing low frequencies through the walls of where-ever I live (apt. dweller), and assume others do not want to have to put up with that either. So another black mark against subs.
And yeah I can hear stuff my (favorite) dealer obviously cannot in the upper registers... And no, I do not want to feel it in my bowels.
And i apologize to men everywhere for saying ANYTHING is a guy thing. Football, fast cars, big tits, curvy ass babes, big stereos, "hard' rocking bass.. not guys things i guess?
They are probably not a 'guy thing' for that interior decorator fellow.
LOL!! (And I apologize to fem gays everywhere.. being politically correct and all )

"My idea of really bad low frequency is driving, then hearing some morons' thumping crap subs from five cars away at a stoplight, and being stuck till' the light turns green. "

Yes, I agree. That IS the worst!!!!

Some of the things I have heard in Best Buy and other stores that target the masses are close behind.

I used to sell car stereos at Radio Shack years ago. I am proud to say I managed to always resist the urge to sell car stereos and make commissions by cranking up distorted bass. I did OK though despite by just trying to keep focused on quality, not quantity.

BTW, despite all appearances otherwise, let me make it clear that I am NOT obsessed with the lower octave.

I prefer to call it "enamored"........

As a card-carrying male I agree with Elizabeth, I'm happy to be considered a stereotype:

Football, fast cars, big tits, curvy ass babes, big stereos

Amen!!

Sub sonic bass? Not my thing, I'm all about an accurate/holographic mid-range for the most part. Get the vocals right and most other things fall into place.

Some rooms just can accommodate low bass, and when presented with it, don't know what to do with it.