Metal girl/woman stereotypes

Ever seen that show That Metal Show? If you haven't cause you don't like metal or even if you do but haven't gotten around to it, you're not really missing much. They show the same metal dudes from the same metal bands all the time. Unless they one day interview the members of Ghoul, Kylesa, Municipal Waste, or Venom, or whoever, then maybe I'll watch willingly. But this isn't what bothered me about the show, it was the fact that they found the most stereotypical Sunset Blvd metal girl you could imagine to do some segment (what the segment was, I can't really recall cause I wasn't paying attention). They just had her for show, didn't ask for her opinion on anything, just treating her like eye-candy for all the burly metal bros.
Who am I to judge this woman, maybe she really does like really good metal and not just.....Motley Crue. I just didn't like that she wasn't more involved in the show. She was just brought in and out.
As a person who goes to metal shows quite often, I can tell you that girls who love metal come in all shapes, colors, hair colors, backgrounds. Some dress one way, others dress another way, but we are not just one cookie cutter way: think of every woman in the mid to late 80s hair metal scene, that's who they want to portray as "metal women" but really, it's just a fucking stereotype.

The things that stick with you

Sometimes I never listen to what the singer in a band has to say, it's either because I can't hear from the ear plugs that I wear to protect my shitty hearing or I just flat out tune out when the music stops in between songs and only tune in when the music starts. I'd seen the band OUTLOOK once before and the singer of the band, a cool girl named Adriana, was telling a story about her cousin in the navy who was ashamed of the things he had to do during his tours in Iraq. I don't know why that story stuck with me, why I've thought about that story many times after that. She told the story today, and even though I'd heard her tell the story before, it still made me a little teary-eyed. And then I saw one of the best sets.

The world would be a better place if there were more women in bands

Just saying.
September 14th, the bearded man and I were supposed to go see Kylesa play at Great American Music Hall. But they ended up canceling their show and now I am pretty bummed because it would've been a great one. Two drummers! Music that really needs its own genre, but just to be safe, let's put in the metal section! And Laura Pleasants!(!!!) Her guitar is loud and she has pretty hair and can probably kick your ass.

When I first heard of the band Kylesa, I think someone told me "there's a girl in the band" and as soon as that was said I was sold. There are very few women in bands in the genres of music that I listen to, I can probably count them all on one hand.

Laura Pleasants, to me, doesn't seem like the token woman in the band playing bass (no offense to anyone who plays bass!), she plays guitar, her voice is loud.

She is someone who I look up to (cause I can still have heroines at the age of 24), and the last time I saw Kylesa play, I just thought to myself: "I wish I could play guitar like Laura Pleasants."
Actually, I wish I could just play guitar and the drums, and maybe bass, but I'll get back to that on another day.
There need to be more girls who are inspired to play instruments and less girls who are inspired to make one-hit wonders and be on whatever the fuck show or tv channel that still plays music, is there such a thing anymore? I could go on and on about how there are very few good role models for girls and women, but I'll  stick to the positive and just say Laura Pleasants from Kylesa is awesome because she inspires me to want to play music and head bang like I'm never going to get whiplash (which I already do, but I will never look as good as when Laura Pleasants does it).
I think I'll go listen to Kylesa for the umpteenth time today and try to be less bummed that I won't be able to see this cool ass band on Tuesday.
Also, if you ever read this Laura Pleasants, I just want you to know that you are my heroine...and please don't be creeped out by that.