The Off Topic Topic

[Josquius]

Well, let's think about it.  Metal is emo for people who aren't in high school anymore.  Now, what attracts women to emo?  The fact that they're too young to know any better.  Thus, where does metal fail?  The women are old enough to know better.

Metal isn't my music of choice, I was just there as the pickings are rather slim for anything remotely rock related in Newcastle.
Metal though is not at all emo.
'Emo for people no longer in high school' would be more James Blunt and those other such popular, dull, moany folks.

The only reasons I can think of are the mentioned sweaty assosiations and perhaps that such harsh music doesn't appeal to many women (sexism, yey!)

[Syt]

I went into Newcastle yesterday and ended up at the town's metal bar, I noticed that it was something like 90% guys there, you rarely see women involved with metal elsewhere too.

Weird, I see plenty chicks here at metal concerts (esp. folk metal).

Though a lot of girls I know, though liking some metal, generally prefer EBM/Dark Wave.

[Grey Fox]

Girls go to bars where there's already lot of girls. It's really not that complicated.

[Monoriu]

We are cheap!

http://www.economist.com/daily/chartgallery/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14065333&source=features_box4

[Darth Wagtaros]

You and Seeds are almost mentors for me.

I wonder what it is that totally turns women away from metal.
I went into Newcastle yesterday and ended up at the town's metal bar, I noticed that it was something like 90% guys there, you rarely see women involved with metal elsewhere too.
Sure, there's the 'sweaty' nerdy image associated with metal and there were a large number of those types there but there were also a large amount of otherwise fairly normal seeming people.

Well, let's think about it.  Metal is emo for people who aren't in high school anymore.  Now, what attracts women to emo?  The fact that they're too young to know any better.  Thus, where does metal fail?  The women are old enough to know better.

[DisturbedPervert]

We are cheap!

http://www.economist.com/daily/chartgallery/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14065333&source=features_box4

The Big Mac Index is obsolete.  I prefer the Tandoori Chicken Index, the Tofu Lasagna Index, and the Beef Enchilada Index.

[CountDeMoney]

I always preferred this one:

[Syt]

There's more by the artist.




Some are pretty funny.
http://www.sandowbirk.com/paintings/the-depravities-of-war/

[Syt]

In Smog and Thunder: The Great War of the Californias

A series of artworks depicting an imaginary war between San Francisco and Los Angeles, incorporating more than 120 artworks, including paintings, drawings, prints, faux war posters, maps, diagrams, models, and video documentary.

The project was exhibited at the Laguna Art Museum in Southern California in 2000,
and at the Sonoma Art Museum in Northern California in 2001.

A 45 min. documentary film about the war, inspired by Ken Burns' PBS series "The Civil War", was completed in 2001 and is now available. It was directed by Sean Meredith and made in collaboration with Paul Zaloom.

[Syt]

The Surrender of O.J. Simpson 

[Ed Anger]

Timmayism on the march. The country has gone to hell.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Damn.  Timmy will cry that he wasn't here to see those.

[Syt]

Actually, the Hollywood poster pretty accurately describes my feelilngs to the recent produce of what used to be the "Dream Factory".

[CountDeMoney]

The Surrender of O.J. Simpson 

That is genius on so many levels.
It just made my desktop.

[Zanza]

I got my new Merc today. It's fabulous. I love all the small gizmos, especially the voice command stuff.