Have You ever been Ridiculed for being A Metalhead, Or Punk Rocker, Or New Waver back in the Day?

Question

All the MCR controversy flying around made Me think back to My High School Days when I used to get ragged for having long hair, wearing leather, having tattos, and generally being a Metalhead.
Ever have similar experiences?
Everyone feel free to answer. I promise I won't bash anyone at all.
I just want to hear your stories, Emo kids are welcome too.

I hear You.
People didn't get far raggin on Me back then.
You used to get in a fight it was just detention, not a federal offense in My day.

Emily
I am in 100% total agreement with everything You said.

Cinnamon
That sucks
Any kind of racism sucks and should never be tolerated

So Many Great Answers...
This ain't going to be an easy decision.

Thx Chunga
I feel like I have even More in common with You now

Silver
Lara
Sarah
Great Answers Ya'll Rock

Answer 1

I was the only musician and metal chick on my high school's cheerleader team. They didn't like that I wasn't a hip hop ho or a plastic pop princess. They tried to drive me out of the squad, but they failed. Two years before, the squad drove another girl out a few years before. She wasn't a metal chick, but she was huge into the Beatles and played a decent guitar. We jammed together a few times.

I was never into leather beyond the occasional skirt or pair of boots. Tattoos are becoming so cliché, I'm glad I don't have any. I'm a girl, so my long hair was never a problem unless I dyed it hot pink, blue, or green. The pink wasn't even a big deal.

A lot of guys gave me extra attention because I'm into metal and classic rock, guitars, and have a natural D cup. I'm not surprised or angry about it, but it occasionally got annoying.

Answer 2

Ah being a teen metalheads tough isnt it? I get bagged not just by normal people but my fellow metalheads as well. All the metalheads nowdays are going for a more metalcore kind of style just to be kind of sceney. Im one of the only ones left that will listen to almost any type of metal and rock. The rest of my mates are trying to get more into the new metal scene and are cutting there hair short and that and I get bagged for staying where my heart truely belongs.

The hardest thing about being metalhead though is keeping the hair. Ive even had random people on the street come up to me n start saying stuff about it...they regret it afterwoulds. Also they way that everyone thinks that your a satanic braindead stoner gets on my nerves. I guess its fun that sometimes if I really want to I can make mums with their little kids cross the road just to avoid me, which is actualy quite ironic becuase I'm not actually that mean or scary at all.

I do actualy have alot of freinds as well though. Being a metalhead dosent make you a complete outcast. My girlfreind hates metal n is into all the pop stuff n shes still into me quite alot. She DOSE try to get me to pass out so she can cut my hair alot tho....

Answer 3

Ops, I starred the question and forgot to answer... hehe.....

Mine experience in quite the opposite, the ridicule comes from the rocker crowd in my school. I'm not the stereotypical rocker (or look it either), so I often get rejected by the rocker crowds. There are two rocker cliques in my school, the classic rockers/metalheads and the emos. You understand why I'm not part of the emo crowd. The classic rocker/metalhead crowd can get pretty exclusive and I'm not allowed to be part of it because I don't have the "look" which makes me pretty sad cause the only person that I know that loves Porcupine Tree is part of that crowd and i would just love to be able to talk to someone face to face about music..... Well, none of the guys in that group believe that I truly listen to rock, cause I don't look it and that pretty much sucks. Also I've been ridiculed for looking emo (oh boy, I have black pants and black hair, I must be emo!) and I'm floating between getting told "you don't really listen to rock" and "stop cutting your wrist, emo!". And being told I don't listen to real rock and I should stop being a poser is not cool when they don't give me a chance (I bet I know more Pink Floyd then they ever will....). You can understand why this is frustrating right?

*edit, wow, that was much longer rant then I intended....

*edit:
Cinnamon Grrrl ♀ : I feel your pain, I'm Asian and apparently, I'm only suppose to listen to classical music and pop. I get called "twinkie" a lot.

*edit: Jakex: Khols? Haha... not very emo

Even later than Cinnamon Grrrl's late edit Edit: Cinnamon Grrrl : Twinkie- Yellow on the outside, white on the inside

*hugs all around*

Answer 4

yea, people hate me and i get a lot of names thrown at me while i'm just walking down the street, but you know, punk is just the way i roll.

and it doesn't help that i wear the occassion anti-america shirt. :)

buuutt, on the other hand, i get insulted all the time on here for liking mcr.
i mean ALL THE TIME. there isn't an hour that goes by that someone doesn't ask "don't you just hate mcr" or "don't you just hate mcr fans"

it's really annoying. but i think there is something good to all music., not just led zeppelin or pink floyd.

because in this section, if you don't listen to them and only them, you will be hated.

so, i'm saying ahead of time that i'm sorry for liking a broader range of tasteful music.
that's just the way i am.

and that's a good point to bring up, that "emo" (even though they're not really emo) kids are hated and ridiculed based on the way they dress and the music they listen to. it's pathetic.

it's getting ridiculous.

Answer 5

Not so much back in the day, but I get ridiculed for being hardcore or a scene kid, or for listening to screamo. I personally don't care all that much, I'm pretty laid back.

Edit: Oh yeah, I also get made fun of and called 'emo' for wearing "girl jeans". They're just fairly tight jeans that I got at Kohls. Come on people.

Answer 6

People have never been able to figure me out. I started out with a Beatle haircut in 1964/5 (before that it was the monthly $2 pig shave), and by 1967 my hair was down to the middle of my back, by '69 it was nearing my a**.
I was never really a hippie in the "peace and love, protest" sense, because I could never really get into that crap. That was for the weekend warrior, "looking for attention" posers!
For me it was all about "sex drugs and rock and roll". I remember walking down the street, and if an older person (my current age) would see me a comin' with my hair flowing 3 feet on either side of my head, they would cross the street and try to avoid me. I took pleasure in going out of my way, and crossing over to them and saying hello. Thank God there was no pepper spray back in those days!
I kept my hair that way for several years, and eventually fell into the the unintentional 'Andy Travis' (WKRP) look of the late 70's, and then actually had a punk mowhak for a year or so. Then all the new long hairs of the NWoBHM had re-popularized the long hair look. So of course I grew it out again, and by 1981 I was ready for round two of the long hair!
I had really long hair until 1996. Then I came home one day with an unannounced pig shave, and freaked the sh*t out of my wife while she was in the bath tub. I burst in and said, "ta daa!" She screamed and threw things at me. She claims she never recognized me and thought I was an intruder, but I have my doubts...Haaaa!
Now I have a very mellow looking haircut, and it looks quit nice. This is a picture of me taken at the recent 'Freakers Ball' during my inauguration as 'Head Freak':
http://www.planetout.com/images/slides/george400.jpg

Answer 7

Going back 10 years here :~

I was picked on in school for other reasons : if you don't 'fit' then you get picked on ~ especially if you're a little overweight and happen to not even like PE {would you willingly run around a hockey pitch in winter in a skirt that barely covers your bum?!}

Anyway, at the age of 15 my peer group couldn't understand why I listened to what they called 'old' music, instead of the current pop rubbish.
At the time I certainly didn't look like a Rocker {we had school uniform!}, and for the couple of weeks I was in the 6th Form I looked a bit 'goth', and people thought I was odd for reading a Guns N' Roses biography!

There didn't seem to be any particular 'groups' of music lovers at my school {though there was 1 Pink Floyd fan in the year bellow me!}, so there never was anyone to talk to :(

Even now, most people probably wouldn't have the slightest idea what music I listen to, based on my appearance.
In fact, on here is the only place I get to talk to fellow music-minded people! :)

{{{{{{{Hug}}}}}}} for Sarah C
{{{{{{{Hug}}}}}}} for Cinnamon Grrrl

Answer 8

No-one says anything to me now.
I'm always in a bad mood when I'm in the pits of hell [school], i probably look like I'll attack without warning hehe, that's probably why i get no comments about it.
People stare at my outfits sometimes, but i refuse to conform to what they consider "normal". I'll dress how i want to dress thanks.
Apart from that, the school i'm at now is fairly open minded I guess.

In my old school, however, i was ridiculed. Not for listening to metal, but for being a mixed race [half black] girl that listened to metal. Apparently listening to rock means you're "acting white" which some don't take kindly to.
That wasn't pleasant...


very late edit: I agree. /Any/ sort of discrimination shouldn't be tolerated, but it happens, there are always going to be ignorant people.

Sarah - twinkie? i've never heard that before

Silver - -hugs-

x

Answer 9

I've been a metalhead for 25 years, and I've never been ridiculed for it. People are usually shocked or surprised to hear I'm a metalhead, but otherwise no one talks smack to me about it.
I do, however, get a lot of people telling me they like metal too- then proceed to name bands that are not at all metal (Nickelback, Green Day, etc...).

Answer 10

Yeah- I know how u feel. I'm a modern day METAL HEAD and it's really hard being a 13 year old girl metal head today. I got beaten up for wering a KISS shirt, got milk spilled on me for wering a MCR shirt, got glued to a pencil for wering a Def Lepppard shirt, got ridiculed in gym for wering a Judas Prient shirt.
Life's not fair for us.