Well, I wasn't so much aiming for a sociological discussion on the decay of the American male, I was just thinking back to numerous conversations about how you characterize particular metal as gay/fag-shit/whatever and eschew it because you feel it compromises your image as a badass metalhead. While I'm not totally going to fault you for that, having dealt with that phase in my own life, it's still unsettling nonetheless, especially since you're two steps away from coming off like a hardcore nu-metalhead