[BRA BURNING] Why Is There An Idiot Writing About Why “There Are So Many Cute Girls at Metal and Hardcore Shows Now”?

I think you’re giving this misogynistic bastard too much attention, I don’t recall ever going to a metal- or hardcoreconcert without attractive women being there.

To answer your question:”He’s writing about it in order to get attention, his mother probable neglected him as a child and he’ll spend the rest of his pathetic life trying to make up for that.
Which makes it an even bigger shame that you’re actually giving this guy any attention.

I think that in the early and late nineties especially, the demographics were far from even. In the late nineties especially, when being into anything resembling thrash or black metal was about as socially appealing as having leprosy, there were very few ladies at shows.

Metal has become trendy and with the widening of the audience, you automatically get an influx of douchebags. This means that, along with new recruits who wouldn’t have been exposed to the style without the wider public acceptance, a whole bunch of douchebags attend the shows as well.

Yes – it is perceived as ‘cooler’ and trendier. Yes as someone who has always felt an affinity for the genre it’s galling to go to see a great band slightly past their prime at a venue large enough to accommodate said douchebags for the sake of whom you lose the ‘intimate concert feel’ of the event.

These douchebags will include young trendy ladies only there to flaunt their wares at an event which is perceived as edgy and cool, as well as a bunch of posers who will switch to the next trend once the zeitgeist decides this one is no longer de rigeur.

But seriously – get over it. If it’s that much of a problem, organise your own sausage-fest open to only your fellow initiated disciples of myopic idiocy. This will have the dual benefit of (a) recreating the atmosphere of metal’s long-lost years out of the limelight and (b) will keep you away from proper shows.

you are also an idiot.

Sometimes people need to get called out on bullshit and Yasi I dig that you did just that. Metal and hardcore has been getting more attention and trendy nowdays but fuck it cant really do much about that. But one thing that kinda made me sad is that MTV is probably paying that dude Ethan some good money just to write some garage. When there’s people out that write some good decent stuff and isn’t getting no money for it.

metal, harcore, noise, and power electronics are historically very male dominant, and I maybe these styles are getting too popular these days and are becoming kind of a fad…I don’t want to see some babe who looks ready to hit the club hanging out at an eyehategod show. Or a bunch of girls in thick rim glasses that are obvi not prescription standing in front of me while I’m trrryiiing to listen to wolf eyes. Though i agree that some girls just have good taste in music and they don’t even have a cool boyfriend or an older brother to show them what’s cool. They just know. I’d like a girl like that to be my gf.

When a man is a snarky asshole that can’t finish a paragraph without some overly aggressive comment about “Cause OBVIOUSLY I only like cars” (Or some other shit), any reasonable human being would dismiss him as a fucking dick. Because he IS one. That dude needs to chill out and write a civil article that properly displays his point, without acting like a complete and utter shithead.

With that having been said, please understand when I say that this woman needs to fucking chill out and write a civil article that properly displays her point without acting like a complete and utter shithead. I totally laughed at the first three times she made the “Oh haha I only listen to Taylor Swift cause I’m a girl” joke. And I also, totally support the sentiment that she is trying to get across. The article this is responding to is utter garbage, and the author is an ignorant dick. But after the first 3 times, I found myself wishing that the author of this article wasn’t such a combative asshole, not because she has a vagina, and she should be more lady-like, but because she’s a human being, and needs to act like an adult, not a snarky preteen.

If a man wants his point to be taken seriously he has to present it civilly. So do you, Yasi.

I like how you ended *your* part of the article with “OMG LOLZ SHOES!” and then quoted a… black metal/shoegaze band.

you’re great. thanks for writing this. spot on critique.

i’d also like to add that the author of the article in question clearly has no understanding of hardcore as a specific category of “heavy” music (marauder LOL), and therefore, should have probably excluded it from his already-embarassing drivel.

I think we’re neglecting the real problem here. MTV is encouraging posers go to metal shows. It looks more like an attempt to break down the fibers of the one musical culture they have never had any control over. On a more positive note, a bunch of jersey shore deuchbags at a metal concert would get steamrolled attempting that poser shit.

fuck taylor swift and lorde, they are fucking bullshit, try listening to actual talent