Heavy metal has been a huge part of my life for more than 20 years. Some of the best people Ive ever met have been metalheads. But, like every other type of culture, its image to outsiders is largely informed by its loudest segment regardless of how small that segment is. Unfortunately, the loudest segment in metal is frequently obnoxious and awful. This isnt something unique to heavy metal; reasonable voices in religion, atheism, politics, and geek/gaming culture are constantly drowned out by a chorus of shrieking trolls who cant handle dissenting opinions or questioning of the status quo . Im tired of always having to justify my love of metal by explaining to outsiders that most metalheads really are good people and not angry, dumb ogres. Im also tired of the intolerance and unwavering dogmatism that infects this community that I otherwise love. Some of you clowns are ruining it for the rest of us, and the purpose of this new semi-regular series called The Problem With Heavy Metal Is Metalheads is to point out some problems within our community and hopefully work to correct them. Its my hope that the reasonable people reading these posts will engage in calm, rational debate in the comments section despite the reactionary sewage that will almost certainly bubble up from the nastiest, smelliest depths of Metal Injections commenting community. metalinjection.net/editorials/the-problem-with-heavy-metal-is-metalheads-stop-calling-everyone-a-faggot
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 05:07:39 +0000
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