What the fuck is wrong with me?

Metalheads are notorious for that. Don't get me wrong, I love some metal, but for a subculture of music fans that likes to consider themselves enlightened and outside of the mainstream, metalheads can be some of the most closed-minded music fans around. A lot of them have an attitude that any music that is not metal…

When I hear someone say "I listen to everything", I mentally translate that to "I listen to everything that is currently being played in heavy rotation on corporate radio stations, and probably wouldn't be familiar with a song from even 5 years ago".

This is ancillary to your main point, really has nothing to do with liking Journey, country music, or any of that, but I am oh so sick of this "irony" stuff. What the hell is liking something "ironically", anyway? Bunch of trying-too-hard posturing. Either you like it or you don't. I await the day with all this…

He is all those things. Now if he would only front a band that wasn't the musical equivalent of a graham cracker.

I agree with everything you said except that the Foo Fighters were the "last authentic experience in music". I grew up in the '90s too, and even then, I knew they were mediocre after their first album.

You're not a joyless motherfucker. You simply don't like one thing. The Internet has a propensity for accusing people of being "joyless motherfuckers" when they don't happen to like the same things they like.

The Foo Fighters are the plain vanilla of rock bands. They're a dad rock band, which isn't necessarily the worst thing in the world, but the fact is that Dave USED to be in a band that emphatically WASN'T dad rock, and that probably actively pissed off dads. That's where the disappointment comes from. Dave is capable…

And that's why there was a huge backlash against stadium rock shows, and why many people still prefer more intimate performances.

Yeah, I'm kind of on the fence about this, not quite sure if he's actually contrite or this is sorry-not-sorry. He might be genuine. But "I don't have a racist bone in my body" is an eye-roll-worthy cliche at this point. I'm inclined to want to give him the benefit of the doubt because, by his own admission, he is…

There are rapists in this comment thread. 100% sure. The rape apologism guarantees it.

It IS thinking typical of an assault victim (I know, because I am one), but where it became offensive, and where she lost her deservingness of compassion for me, is when she generalized her experience to all other women, and said it's their fault if they get raped, because she blames herself for her own experience.…

With you here. Also, I'm mighty sick of when people minimize their truly vile or offensive opinions as merely "disagreement" or "unpopular" when they're obviously a bit worse than that.

Yeah, it's like when a racist justifies their racism by pointing to a black person who agrees with them. Same BS.

Just like racists don't start a diatribe by saying "I'm a racist…"

Don't interpret this as an attack on you - I'm just making a larger point - I am so goddamn sick of the comparison of rape to theft. Theft is a crime of OPPORTUNITY. Yes, if you go wearing an expensive watch in a poor neighborhood, you might be likely to get it stolen - but rape doesn't work the same way, because rape…

I get why it might be seen as victim blaming, and again, I'm not saying it's a perfect solution. I'm definitely not saying that women would HAVE to take free martial-courses; just wondering aloud if, if we offered it to them, it might reduce the incidence of rape. But maybe not. Maybe rapists would just go after…

Yes, this, and also, if you're going to approach a woman, try to be mindful of the situation, and not do it in a place or time (such as on the street at night, when you've got her backed into a corner, on public transportation, when she's got headphones on) where she MIGHT PERCEIVE YOU to be dangerous even if your…

Except that NOBODY EVER SAID it was ALL men, and that's been a giant fucking strawman from the beginning.

Are you kidding? Look at all the places that bitched and whined about their "First Amendment freedumbs!" when told that maybe they shouldn't sell Confederate flags. If those people could sell that shit and double down on it, I'm sure there are people selling those pins too.