I’ll never understand why this is a divisive issue… let people live however they want, unless they bother others. How does it bother me if someone wants do get rid of their dick? Stop interfering in people’s lives.
How can you tell 23 subgenres of equally shitty growls and screams apart, but not see the most Metal basics?
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Ozymandias1688@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
bystander@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Deliberately used as the “enemy” by the fascist state as scapegoat and distraction. Queer people were also targeted by Nazis.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
unless they bother other
Well, that’s the thing. So many people are bothered when someone does something they wouldn’t personally do, often because they were told their whole life that there is only one proper way to exist.
“…unless they are harming someone else.” though, that is a pretty solid criteria.
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They genuinely believe trans people are child molesting scum that are trying to convert their children into transgenders.
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Indeed, a lot of the UK transphobic stuff that is happening right now is based off this conspiracy theory, trans women are no longer considered equal to cis women because of this
Nangijala@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
I don’t know where this is coming from because I grew up in the era of Marilyn Manson, the Murderdolls and Dir En Grey (etc.) Where gender was some fluid shit and everybody vibed with it.
Even though I don’t like them, I also remember Rammstein playing around with gender expression.
Overall, my personal experience with metal since teenhood in the 2000s is that metalheads are extremely chill and open minded and the bigots are some fringe groups here and there that nobody likes to talk to anyways.
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Transphobic metal can fuck right off
Just gonna drop Cattle Decapitation here, tho (CW gore, and a lot of other fucked up shit):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvxVkF8lCAo
Making songs about torturing transphobes since 2013
tatann@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I’ll second with OG deathgrind veterans Brutal Truth and 1990 “Anti-Homophobe” :
VolumetricShitCompressor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
“Demonic Gender” sounds like a banger bandname.
Godric@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not only that, “Alabama State Legislators” sounds like a killer punk-folk act
IzzyJ@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m scared to ask but what in the fuck is punk-folk
fushuan@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I wanna downvote because you called metal shitty growls and screams, but I’m no transphobe so you get a comment >:(
Metal people are the most chill people always, have you seen Serj outside of musical videos? He’s almost a hippie.
spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
[OP] called metal shitty growls and screams,
To give the OP credit, even as a metal fan, they’re not exactly wrong. There are plenty of bands/genres that I try to listen to and come away thinking something to that effect.
Godric@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m a metal fan, Serj is fantastic.
I’m still going to mock metal :)
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
No matter how much we like metal we gotta admit it’s pretty silly most of the time.
comfy@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Idk if I could deal with being trans. Needles scare me too much
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You can do pills and a bunch of other options as well.
A friend has an implanted estrogen pellet
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
There are only two types, no in betweens, you’re either trans or transphobic, catch up bigots.
Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
[deleted]Nangijala@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
I dunno what to tell you but women can be nazis too.
Besides, every hobby has assholes in it. But because there are a few pieces of shit in metal, doesn’t mean all of metal is racist or sexist. That’s like saying people who like science fiction are nazis and misogynist because Wernher von Braun wrote Project Mars.
And last I checked, metal didn’t embrace nazis. There are fringe nazi sympathizers in metal, but metal as a whole is repulsed by nazisism. They just can’t control what some people do. Just like how punk can’t control of there are a few nazi punk bands out there no matter how much they try to reject them.
It genuinely pisses me off how such a small group of assholes can get so many people to act like metal as a whole is racist. It was no different back in the 2000s where my parents also wanted me to stop listening to it because my dad found one article about a guy who beat up his girlfriend and he apparently liked Metallica.
This is the blaming video games for school shooters argument all over again. And back then, metal was blamed for that too.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
my parents also wanted me to stop listening to it because my dad found one article about a guy who beat up his girlfriend and he apparently liked Metallica
My dad once picked me up from a party when I was in high school in the 1980s; he noticed a video that was playing on MTV and was highly disturbed by the imagery in it, as he told me later (many times).
The video was “Cuts Like a Knife” by Bryan Adams. My dad thought he was losing me to Satan because of fucking Bryan Adams!
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
there’s a hell of a lot less of a chance of them turning out to be nazis or sexual predators.
Nah, it’s pretty much the same. Maybe they’re less vocal about it because they’re already worried about being accepted in a male dominated field. But being as horrible as possible is pretty even across the sexes in other areas, so probably this one as well.
Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Reason for deleting my comment: not interested in ‘discussing’ anything with people who go “men and women the same” when there’s literally stats and figures that prove otherwise and the growing ideological divide between men and women is a real concern. If I had to bring up those facts, one of these snowflakes would just report my comments for ‘hate’ or something. Because that’s how these people prefer to do it. Sticking their heads in the ground and going “not all men” out of their backsides, rather than ever acknowledging that there are any problems and working to solve them.
tatann@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
“23 subgenres of equally shitty growls and screams” sounds like a headline from far-right media, so…
Godric@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Broken clocks and all that ;)
Etterra@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
Hey don’t knock the metal itself. It actually requires people to know how to play instruments and sing. Unlike some rap I might mention.
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I agree that people are often unfairly dismissive of Metal as a genre.
But people are also often unfairly dismissive of Rap and Hip Hop. A lot of the time that dismissal is rooted in racism.
Now, go listen to some MF Doom, and tell me rap doesn’t require talent
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Tbf rap doesn’t require talent. Go listen to lil peep and tell me talent is required.
Now, is talent required for good rap? Yeah, and there’s no shortage of it if you know where to look. But goddamn lil uzi vert sucks ass. I know we can’t all be KRS One but do we have to be takeshi 69?
thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
“Lifes for my own to live my own way”
systemglitch@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You want more trump? Keep posting this shit and you will get another trump.
Taleya@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Explain your chain of logic
systemglitch@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is pretty much what unites the right… the constant reminder of people they hate. It has to be eased off a ton.
Carmakazi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
People who elect genocidal, theocratic fascists to power because they think trans people are icky should be driven to the fringes of society, not have their feelings coddled.
Godric@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well, the economy is headed for recession and the international system the US spent the last 80 years building is forever shattered and nobody will ever trust us again, but at least trans people can’t use their preferred bathrooms.
Was it a good trade?
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Surprise, the transphobe doesn’t like the anti-transphobic meme. Who would have guessed?
RandomVideos@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
I understand the message, but there are like 2 people that voted for trump on lemmy and both of them have been banned from most communities
systemglitch@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I see division unrelenting.
Allonzee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It really is better to be destroyed by Trump and fascism standing for what’s right, that being empathetic and logical, than to cowtow to his demands.
Better to die on your feet than live on your knees. I won’t be the equivalent of a German who provides silent, obedient consent as they dehumanize the gypsies/Jews/disabled.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Duh, Metal is clearly when your opinions align with fart-in-chief of a right wing government owned by crusty billionaires appealing to boomers /s
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
If I die and go to hell and there is no metal genre playing then I know I truly went to hell.
And for those who say ‘what about all the people before metal music was invented who died and went to hell’. To that I have to say that metal music is eternal and the history of music is a lie!
Skavau@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Is this referring to something Alabama has said recently? Just googled.
Godric@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No, as a personal rule, I generally discount anything and anything from Alabama
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Their Shakes are pretty good.
rabber@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I’ve been attending metal shows my entire life and I don’t think I’ve ever seen any transphobia. OP doesn’t know metalheads
Godric@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve been living in small towns most my life, we’ve met different metalheads.
rabber@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Me too, maybe its cuz im in canada
synae@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Check out Exuvia, “trans vengeance metal”:
nomorgrms@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
Metal always had a Nazi problem. That’s what happen when you take out the radical root of rock and roll and make it solely about aesthetic and technicity so that white people from Norway can enjoy it
Metallica sued Napster lmao what a bunch of simps
nerv@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
That’s a pretty metal description of what transitioning is. Bang on.
UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Societal alienation makes for the best art and metal is no exception. Metalheads trying to exclude someone for being different (NSBM excepted) have completely missed the point of the entire genre.
Shout out to Genital Shame and Lust Hag making excellent Transwoman Black Metal!
Godric@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Based take, I’ll have to give them a listen
Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
I had never heard over NSBM (nazi black metal) before and am actually kinda shocked, this exists… Fuck them.
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
A lot of first wave and early norwegian black metal bands were essentially proto-NSBM. Nazis have been a part of black metal for as long as it’s been around. For a long while black metal had a reputation for being full of fascists
nomorgrms@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
Boy the whole modern music have a racial element to it. Remember when Elvis Presley for rich because he was white with a black voice?
Thelie@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Thanks for the recs, I was recently looking for queer metal and found some stuff but not nearly the nearly enough…
syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Yeah, some genres have a large segment of people who struggle to fit in with the mainstream. I’d like to think that they pick up something about social liberalism vs traditionalism from that, but there’s apparently also a significant segment who want as strict traditions as the mainstream, they just want somewhat different traditions.