Was [old school] heavy metal gay?

[renard_ruse]

Pro-gay extremists seem to have taken over the comment boards on YouTube for many of the traditional heavy metal videos/songs uploaded. For example, someone who doesn't like the music will call it "gay" and a gang of loudmouth gay-lovers will immediately jump in and defend being gay (not defend the music as not being gay, but defend gay itself).

When I was in 8th or 9th grade listening to Twisted Sister, Dio, Maiden, Crue, ect, I felt like I was being masculine and anti-gay by listening to it. We were metalers because we hated "the fags" who liked gay music like NewWave or mod or Michael Jackson.

Now, supposedly it was gay all along, but its ok because there's "nothing wrong with being gay." This is all too strange to get my head around.

 

[Adre]

You were queer then, you're queer now. Deal with it.

 

[Squibbs]

Pro-gay extremists seem to have taken over the comment boards on YouTube for many of the traditional heavy metal videos/songs uploaded. For example, someone who doesn't like the music will call it "gay" and a gang of loudmouth gay-lovers will immediately jump in and defend being gay (not defend the music as not being gay, but defend gay itself).

When I was in 8th or 9th grade listening to Twisted Sister, Dio, Maiden, Crue, ect, I felt like I was being masculine and anti-gay by listening to it. We were metalers because we hated "the fags" who liked gay music like NewWave or mod or Michael Jackson.

Now, supposedly it was gay all along, but its ok because there's "nothing wrong with being gay." This is all too strange to get my head around.

Hair spray and spandex?

Nothing gay about that.

 

[kbate]

Did you eat paint chips as a child?
Play with lead based paint?
Were you dropped on your head often or only once?
Did people call you "special" a lot?

These seem to be the more applicable questions.

 

[pointless]

ask rob halford how gay it was.

 

[cjh]

No.

Nothing gay about early heavy metal at all.

 

[SeaDaddy1]

Homophobic much?

 

[doctor_insanus]

Are you ever right about anything?

No. No, you're not.

 

[Sean Renaud]

You know Renard is right for a change and it's a shame you guys haven't caught on to it.

Those gays get to be bitchy about gay being used as a negative. It just is and they need to get over it. Outside of radicals (who are mostly laughed at even by their own race) how many blacks do you see who storm out of the movies or boycott video games because BLACK magic is always evil and destructive and WHITE magic is always good and healing? Why can't the gays get over it?

 

[CandiCame]

You didn't think Twisted Sister was strait. There's no way in hell.

Of course, the fact that you didn't get it was a charicaturist wet dream should have tipped me off that you're not good at picking up on cues.

Dio has a fucking song named RAINBOW IN THE DARK for fuck's sake.

 

[CandiCame]

You know Renard is right for a change and it's a shame you guys haven't caught on to it.

Those gays get to be bitchy about gay being used as a negative. It just is and they need to get over it. Outside of radicals (who are mostly laughed at even by their own race) how many blacks do you see who storm out of the movies or boycott video games because BLACK magic is always evil and destructive and WHITE magic is always good and healing? Why can't the gays get over it?

WTF is up with red magic then? I mean, not even asking that as red is related to my race. How the fuck is white + black = red? Is it because they can use swords? Are fighters symbolized by red?

 

[Sean Renaud]

Nobody has a clue why Red Mages are Red. Note there is no Red Magic just red mages. I suppose Blue Magic makes sense, you have to get beaten Black and BLUE to learn blue magic. I'm unclear on why Grey magic is status effects. . .Does that make Barack Obama a Grey Politician? He's got a black and white parent and he's trying to change the Status of the states. . .

 

[Squibbs]

Sorcerers in flowing robes, rubbing crystal balls sounds pretty gay to me.

 

[fgarvb1]

Queen and Elton john left no doubt at all ...some of the rest of them I'm not sure they knew which way they were going.

For some years back in the seventies and eighties it was "Fashionable" for Rock Bands to be Bisexual / to put out that impression.

 

[CandiCame]

Nobody has a clue why Red Mages are Red. Note there is no Red Magic just red mages. I suppose Blue Magic makes sense, you have to get beaten Black and BLUE to learn blue magic. I'm unclear on why Grey magic is status effects. . .Does that make Barack Obama a Grey Politician? He's got a black and white parent and he's trying to change the Status of the states. . .

Holy shit. You're right. There is no red magic.

So when I was little I thought that blue mages could learn literally any magic in FFT, and I got pissed when I would do something like cast "cure" on them and they wouldn't learn it. Blue mages are the most useless dipshits.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Strago would like to have a word with you. He says he was doing 1000 damage every round when most people were struggling to cap 400. Sure he sucked later in the game because other people eventually started doing 9999 and he was still stuck at 2500 but damned if he didn't get there first.

Next your gonna tell me you don't love moogles!

 

[CandiCame]

Strago would like to have a word with you. He says he was doing 1000 damage every round when most people were struggling to cap 400. Sure he sucked later in the game because other people eventually started doing 9999 and he was still stuck at 2500 but damned if he didn't get there first.

Next your gonna tell me you don't love moogles!

Moogles have other classes. They did kind of get shit on, though, didn't they? They were palidins too and palidins also suck. Kuppo.