I dunno. Comes from all those people who say they are offended by seeing things they were taught are bad to see.
“If you don’t like what you see, don’t look.” Easy enough, you just close your eyes.
But when you’re hearing something you don’t want to hear, you have to at best put fingers over your ears, because you don’t have any earflaps.
I guess the human ear didn’t evolve around country music, thus creating a need to block the sound. Snicker,