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<blockquote data-quote="Moulin Rogue" data-source="post: 4233256" data-attributes="member: 1192"><p>I think it's kinda like classifying D&D as a hobby for white males. You can find plenty of exceptions to the stereotype out there. But at the same time, you look around and wonder how much there might be to that idea. Hmmmmmm.</p><p></p><p>Well, if we agree that men enjoy violent entertainment more than women do, there's part of the answer there. Even when metal's lyrics are not literally about violent behavior, a lot of the imagery still pertains to "battles" and "fighting back" and defiance and so on. And it's often played with a general feeling of aggression. There is a lot of talk about "metal warriors united" and "brothers of metal" and so on, evoking a very male camaraderie of the sort seen in sports teams and military squads and hunting buddies and so on. So the question then is, why?</p><p></p><p>Social status is very important to males. It means power, which means the ability to provide, which increases your attractiveness to females, which increases your chances to spread your genes along. Heavy metal speaks to uniquely male issues of power and disenfranchisement - if you're an outcast, if you don't fit into society, you won't get that social status. But metal offers an appealing solution: you can fight back. You don't have to change who you are. You have a right to live the way you want, and there is a whole metal community willing to fight alongside you for that right. </p><p></p><p>In short, my guess, or "theory" or whatever, is that some of metal's appeal comes from channeling aggression (or just general energy) into a socially acceptable medium (much like rough sports, or action movies, or games where the player slays imaginary orcs <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> ) and some of it is about overcoming "guy problems". Women have their own set of gender-based problems so metal doesn't resonate with them in quite the same way, thus fewer female metal fans.... this post is all generally speaking of course, and my two cents and all that, just coming from someone who has listened to metal long out of the teenage years and later started asking, what IS the appeal, anyway <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> </p><p></p><p>As for the white fanship thing, there are quite a few non-European countries like Japan and Brazil where metal is still massive, so I don't know about that one. Someone could probably make a good argument that rap music addresses issues of power and disenfranchisement in a way that speaks much more specifically to the black community than metal does.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Moulin Rogue, post: 4233256, member: 1192"] I think it's kinda like classifying D&D as a hobby for white males. You can find plenty of exceptions to the stereotype out there. But at the same time, you look around and wonder how much there might be to that idea. Hmmmmmm. Well, if we agree that men enjoy violent entertainment more than women do, there's part of the answer there. Even when metal's lyrics are not literally about violent behavior, a lot of the imagery still pertains to "battles" and "fighting back" and defiance and so on. And it's often played with a general feeling of aggression. There is a lot of talk about "metal warriors united" and "brothers of metal" and so on, evoking a very male camaraderie of the sort seen in sports teams and military squads and hunting buddies and so on. So the question then is, why? Social status is very important to males. It means power, which means the ability to provide, which increases your attractiveness to females, which increases your chances to spread your genes along. Heavy metal speaks to uniquely male issues of power and disenfranchisement - if you're an outcast, if you don't fit into society, you won't get that social status. But metal offers an appealing solution: you can fight back. You don't have to change who you are. You have a right to live the way you want, and there is a whole metal community willing to fight alongside you for that right. In short, my guess, or "theory" or whatever, is that some of metal's appeal comes from channeling aggression (or just general energy) into a socially acceptable medium (much like rough sports, or action movies, or games where the player slays imaginary orcs :) ) and some of it is about overcoming "guy problems". Women have their own set of gender-based problems so metal doesn't resonate with them in quite the same way, thus fewer female metal fans.... this post is all generally speaking of course, and my two cents and all that, just coming from someone who has listened to metal long out of the teenage years and later started asking, what IS the appeal, anyway :) As for the white fanship thing, there are quite a few non-European countries like Japan and Brazil where metal is still massive, so I don't know about that one. Someone could probably make a good argument that rap music addresses issues of power and disenfranchisement in a way that speaks much more specifically to the black community than metal does. [/QUOTE]
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