Classic Rock is an oxymoron.

The fact that “Rock” (the anti-everything, rebelling-without-cause, angst-filled, fresh genre) ever got mixed up with term “Classical” (Elitist, Sophisticated, Ordered and artistically challenging genre) is painfully ironical (I love classical music too so “Classic Rock” is twice as offensive)
I love bands such as the Beatles, Mamma and Pappas and Eric Clapton but they’re not “Classical Rock.” Now people will have you believe that “The Beatles,” probably my favourite rock band, started the Classical Rock genre. However, they’re just connecting the dots without much substance. Because using their same logic I can connect the dots even further down history to someone like Elvis.
The logic these people use attribute Classical Rock as being inspired from the Beatle’s Sgt. Pepper album. Since none of the songs made it big on the Top 40s some radio DJs started playing something called “Progressive Rock” to showcase Sgt. Pepper. Now I’m alright with “Progressive Rock” and let me quickly distinguish it: It’s the concept of playing alternative songs from an album that aren’t meant to be singles. That’s different than what Classic Rock has become, which are just jingles that men facing mid-life crises can’t seem to let go off.
Why I don’t group the Beatles in here is because the term “Classic Rock” was invented in the early 70s (after the Beatles broke up) for people to listen to old songs without expanding their musical taste and still maintain a degree of “badittude.”
Today, “Classic Rock” refers greatly to the pompous 70s and 80s rock era. Not all the music of this era was bad nor do I hate all of it, but the music industry did focus on songs that portrayed ideas of bigotry. Why people expect me to respect the chauvinistic and racist lyrics of Classic Rock is beyond me.

If you don’t believe that the music from the 70s and 80s centers on chauvinism then you need only to listen to the comments from today's DJs on Classic Rock stations for a modern example (Or just listen to their homophobic mascot “The Champ” that appears on different radio stations). Nirvana, Pearl Jam and the entire grunge era rose out fighting against this absurd music. Kurt Cobain went the extra step of vocally bashing a lot of these bands in interviews.

To display this sexism, here are some of the song titles and main lyrics you 3-min-guitar-solo-lovers love to sing along to:

From AC/DC “She’s Got Balls” (Apparently when you’re really macho male genitals become attractive - in a non-homosexual way of course. That’s just the title.. listen to the lyrics):
“She's got soul my lady
Likes to crawl my lady
All around the floor on her hands and knees
Because she likes to please me”

From Scorpions “Rock You Like a Hurricane” (Seriously all I have to do is just show the title of these songs - what a bad simile):
“The bitch is hungry
She needs to tell
So give her inches
And feed her well.”

From Aerosmith’s “Lord of the Thighs” (There’s no metaphor here folks, he’s talking about owning a woman’s thighs):
“You must of come here to find it baby,
You've got the look in your eyes.
Although you really don't mind it -
I am the Lord of your Thighs!” (Notice how he changes from singing “Lord of the Thighs” to “Lord of YOUR Thighs”? How subtle, I almost didn’t know what he was referring to - thanks Tyler - thanks for driving that point home.)

From Def Lepperd's song "Women" This song starts off with explaining how God made Man and then concludes with this:
"But there was somethin' missin', somethin' lost
So he came with the answer, heres what it cost
One part love, one part wild
One part lady, one part child
I give you lots of pretty women!" Basically, women were created to answer for men's boredom....So thanks for completing your purpose in life girls!

From AC/DC TNT (whose title itself makes me want to laugh - Ka-Boom!):
“So lock up your daughter
Lock up your wife
Lock up your back door
And run for your life
The man is back in town
Don't you mess me 'round”

Now I know every band, Beatles too, may have a song that comes off sexist - my point is that this generation of music centered around the concept because it was "hip" to do so. The music industry supported chauvinistic songs over other types. There can be such a thing as a bad generation of music and I believe this is one. I also know that some bands from this era don’t fit this generalization. However, the generalization fits well enough for me to say that Classical Rock is noticeably sexist.