MetalHeads to the left of me, girls to the right

It’s been over a year since I’ve set up this particular blog. This one’s my third in my 6 years of blogging and if there’s one thing that I’ve found interesting about this one, it’s that people seem inclined to believe the author is a guy.

In an attempt to figure out why and how my blog gives off that vibe, I’ve asked quite a few people, including some of my close friends who chanced on my blog and assumed The Messiah of Madness was a guy. They offered that it was the contents and the title of the blog that had lead them to that surmise.

Well I’m The Puppeteer now, although I don’t suppose it quite helps dispel the guyish vibe Oh well, you’ll never find me titling my blog GirlyZone or I♥Pink! Perish the thought!

Prodding around a bit more and scrolling through comments, I’ve managed to draw up the general persona my blog seems to project.

A goth-like guy.

Some admitted to categorizing me as such ’cause of my predilection to Heavy Metal.

It’s quite fascinating really. The idea of girls liking heavy metal is apparently out of element. But I guess  I can understand where they’re coming from if the Siva Hela gig held a few months back is anything to go by. The guys to girls ratio would probably have been 8:1 .

And that being said, besides myself, there was just one other girl who Headbanged. That is if you exclude the bizarrely dressed foreign lady who stood with her arms firmly beside her and nodded her head rapidly. Watching her reminded me of a wind-up mechanical chicken, except this one was on the fritz.

What people have to get straight is, while I do listen to Heavy Metal, I do appreciate other genres of music. I listen to Alternate Rock, Jazz, the classics as way back at the 50’s (who doesn’t like the Doo wop?), even Beethoven! I like all sorts of music, the only exceptions being Hip Hop and RnB *shudder*

If you didn’t notice the title of this post is a rip off of ‘Stuck In The Middle With You‘ by Stealer Wheel. I wasn’t kidding when I said that I’ve listened to about all the genres of music before deciding that Metal rules!

As for the ‘goth’ bit- Apparently, all guys who like Heavy Metal dress up like goths.

Oh well, I guess we’re all at the mercy of stereotypes, there’s nothing much that can be done to diffuse them. Of course, stereotyping isn’t actually detrimental, it only becomes venomous when it’s done will intentions that are… ridiculous. Such as a hierarchy in society or colour bar.

A friend (who was rather ticked off at not being able to figure me out) insisted that I make a profile of sorts. But since there’s enough and more about me in my posts, I’ve put up a picture instead (Gravatar pic). And yeah… I’ve added a filter… Tad apprehensive about having a proper picture on the net… *shrug*

Finding a picture wasn’t easy, figured I’d fetch one off my FaceBook profile pics but then I don’t really have that many… What can I say, I’m not one of those shallow self-absorbed types who have pages and pages of profile pics Heck, my profile pictures don’t even fit the quota of 10 pics per page!

Anyways, that’s one of my most recent pictures. Hopefully I don’t look like a guy in that one.