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Every generation goes through a ridiculous hair phase (lemmy.world)
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[–] MintyFresh 34 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

This picture may represent humanity at its peak.

[–] lepinkainen 26 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

This was the time when rock stars wore heavy makeup, painted their nails, had long lucious curly hair wore pants that cut off circulation

Nobody said they were “gay” or “trans”, they were just rock and fucking roll and whatever they wanted

[–] Meron35 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I'm sorry but this is erasure of the very real homophobia these glam metal bands experienced as part of later backlash.

And the guys in Skid Row tell of going out in public in the late eighties with “their hair stacked to the sky” and fighting with rednecks who called them removeds (Konow 296). While I never had to duke it out with anyone because of my long hair (the extent of my glam look), I did have similar experiences in the real world. Once, when with my mom at Huntington House, a now-defunct furniture store, a female sales clerk came up behind us and asked, “Can I help you ladies?” And on another occasion, when looking at clothes at Joslins in the Westminster Mall, a woman approached me from behind while remarking, “What do we have here? A lady looking at men’s pants!”

Glam Metal and Its Requisite Gender-Bending: Celebrated Until They Suddenly Weren’t | by Ron Baxendale II | Medium - https://ronaldbax2.medium.com/glam-metal-and-its-requisite-gender-bending-celebrated-until-they-suddenly-werent-cf979b24eb4a

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

If that's the extent of the "bad" they got, then I'd say you're wrong.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

I hear it's better to burn out than to fade away. I think that's the anthem of 2025 America.

[–] mojofrododojo 2 points 13 hours ago

Denim pants, shirts, jackets... jfc they had it figured out

[–] homesweethomeMrL 2 points 17 hours ago

“What do ya waaaant?”