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Hello everybody,

If you could spare a few moments to answer some questions for my university dissertation that would be amazing. It would be great to get some responses from people in this forum as I feel you are the audience I need to ask. The questions are based around your thoughts of gender in heavy metal music. Follow the link to my survey! Cheers! 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdDFmZKkLzNGdW_bHM4cnRXvZtm-SIBqEtyh-Htg4jhVDfpyg/viewform?usp=sf_link 

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Talk about nonsense and not understanding cause and effect.

 

1.There are more women in metal these days, because metal is much more mainstream music than it used to be. Way more people are into it = also more women are into it. 

 

2.No metal fan gives a fuck what is between your legs. I know metal fans from both genders, from many different professions and people who are in hugely different places in their lives. Just horns up and mosh away.

 

3. Why on earth should gender diversity be forced? How about let anyone enjoy whatever they like?

 

4.If you experience garbage behaviour at a metal concert, it's because there is a garbage human being around. It has nothing to do with the music. There are some worthless people everywhere where is a crowd.

 

5.The satanism part is not even worth a reply. This subject was exhausted allready back in the 90s.

 

6.Blaming music (or ANYTHING else) for events like columbine is again just trying forcibly find just something, anything to blame it on. These people committing these acts would find any, just any excuse to commit their murderous fantasies. Not one normal, sane person has ever gone on a murder spree, bullied or not, playing videogames or not, listening to metal or not. Making these absolute nutcases into some kind of victims, instead of seeing them as homicidal psychopaths is "understanding" taken too far.

 

Ooops, looks like your survey ticked some of my boxes to catch my full attention, unfortunately it didn't tick a single good box. Now grow some sense, be metal as fuck and get respect, or go shake in your safe spot or whatever you uni folks do these days in the u.s..

 

(I apologize if i took it too far, i'm just rarely annoyed at this level) ?

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