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    “name five of their songs” questions person A’s (the one wearing the band t-shirt) knowledge of the band.

    “name five women who trust you” questions person B’s (the one who asked the 1st question) relationships with women in their life.

    therefore “name five women who trust you” is much more loaded than “name five of their songs”, making it a response that is, perhaps, too rude and unnecessary. although, assuming person B asked person A to name the songs unprompted (this is probably what usually happens), this could be an appropriate counter-question as sometimes a ruder response is necessary when dealing with annoying people.

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      People who have only just met me typically ask if I have kids (even though they rarely ask my husband the same question). And when I say that I don’t, 80% of those people think that “Why not?” is an appropriate follow-up. And about half of them will go on about how having kids is great and I should really do it and that someday I’ll change my mind.

      Now, I made a choice not to have kids. It’s not a difficult subject for me, even though it’s annoying to have strangers insinuate that I don’t know myself well enough to make that decision. But I have several loved ones who have suffered miscarriages and fertility issues, and I know that they feel really uncomfortable answering that question.

      So right around the time I turned 35, my standard response became, " You know, when a woman gets to be a certain age and she doesn’t have kids, there’s usually a reason, and she usually doesn’t want to discuss it with strangers."

      That usually stops those people in their tracks. And I hope it has stopped at least one of them from asking a really invasive question to a person who’s overly sensitive about the fact that they can’t have kids.

      All that to say that humoring someone and naming the five songs (or saying that you can’t) out of politeness just reiterates that they were correct to act as a gatekeeper. Pointing out how rude the question is might actually change their behavior in the future.

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        And I hope it has stopped at least one of them from asking a really invasive question to a person who’s overly sensitive about the fact that they can’t have kids.

        For having this mindset, you deserve all the good things in life

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        To be fair, you actually don’t know if you’d be happier with kids since you don’t, you know, have any kids.

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          And now imagine you do have kids and actually know that you were happier before …

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    My sister was wearing a Harry Potter shirt and, in a grocery store, got confronted by some random girl that got super excited about it, and she showed my sister her tattoo of the Deathly Hallows. My sister had no idea what it was cause she never read the books and didn’t finish the movies, but she enjoys the shirt cause our mom loves the Harry Potter universe. The girl got all sorts of upset and threw some judgy looks at her. My sister doesn’t wear the shirt anymore.

    Post just reminded me of that story, not trying to make a point or anything, just want to join in on the discussion.

    Inb4 anti-JK Rowling commentary, you’d be preaching to the choir.

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      This is why people should either left harmless stranger alone or ask politely before assuming something about said stranger.

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        Idk, I’m fine with strangers engaging with others in public. We’re missing a genuine sense of community. I do feel that with more of this type of engagement, people won’t be so awkward when it goes in an unexpected route and maybe we’ll develop more kindness for one another.

        I have been known to be too optimistic, though.

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    This site is a good reference point to see if I’m still a normal person. If I find myself agreeing too much with the takes and memes here then that means that I’ve become out of touch and I need to go outside and touch grass for awhile. So far so good.

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    Well, people don’t like posers or wearing a shirt just because of a trend. Those hardcore fans can be toxic. Never seen an iron maiden fan do that though.

    Watching stolen valor videos on YouTube is fun to watch thou. Especially those who are truly committing it. People just wearing a camo jacket for style or even pants are a bit overboard.

    Reminds me of a scene from the Deer Hunter.

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    This sounds like a US thing.

    People just don’t go to other people saying some random shit where I’m from. Unless they’re crazy, beggars, or tourists from the US. If you come to anorher person and don’t start your sentence with “excuse me” or “sorry”, you’re getting ignored.

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      That’s because it’s a straw-man. Unless someone has serious social deficiencies, this doesn’t happen. The experience is 99% ignore, 0.9% might get “like your shirt”, or “cool band”, 0.1% some weirdo - who would have found something else anyway if it wasn’t your shirt.

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        It’s a type of negging. I can guarantee you women wearing band shirts riding a subway, at a bar, etc, have been asked this kind of question with negative ulterior motives.

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          The post doesn’t make any sense unless you already know that this is a trope passed around by organized manipulators. It sounds like it could be excused as friendly smalltalk from a fellow fan wanting to connect.

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        Unless someone has serious social deficiencies

        social deficiencies like "being a raging misogynist to the point that literally anything a woman does is percieved as lying in some way?

        because those guys are everywhere, and they do shit like this all the time. in this very thread even.

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      It’s not common but I have had this weird interaction once:

      Stop at random convenience store for a drink, take drink to counter, cashier looks up, sees my Dave Matthews Band shirt, and while doing the transaction for my drink says:

      “I know that band! I hate that band! Take your shit and get out!”

      It was confusing as hell. Who the fuck hates the Dave Matthews Band? 🤷🏻‍♂️

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        Personally, can’t stand them, but I support people listening to what they enjoy and the musical tastes of others shouldn’t dictate what anyone else enjoys. Music is art and no piece of art is universal.

        Satellite is a solid track, though.

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          The gate keeping in anything, music or otherwise has always been lame. I want to meet and talk to people who are passionate about things I don’t know about and can talk to me about that. I’ve always found the “you can’t like this…” Mentality annoying.

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          What a weird story. And what did he do, refill the shit tank on the bus with waste so it was full when they checked afterwards, or did he swap plates to a different bus? I don’t deny this guy was responsible, but that’s a strange detail.

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        I also can’t stand DMB his voice is obnoxious and all the songs sound the same. Obviously idgaf if you like them and it doesn’t change how I feel about people just dont invite me to one of his shows.

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      It doesn’t happen in the US either. These posts are made up social media rage bait.

      Both people in this made up conversation sounds like douches.

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        I’ve seen it happen when I was in high school. It was usually a call out between friends and 90% of the time it was a led zeppelin shirt. Never seen it between two strangers on the street though

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    My job includes doing a lot of events on college campuses, so I see a lot of t-shirts for classic rock bands. I see a Dark Side of the Moon shirt at nearly every event. I’m a huge lifelong musician and music lover, so I often ask if they’ve listened to that album. If they have, we have a nice discussion about Pink Floyd. If not, I encourage them to give it a listen, because it is an album that has literally changed people’s lives.

    One girl told me she hadn’t heard it, but her GRANDMOTHER told her it was the greatest album ever made. First of all: Grandmother? That hurt. Secondly, I told her grandma may be right, go listen to that album.

    Recently, someone was wearing an Abby Road shirt, so I asked. They turned out to be a huge Beatles fan, and we had a nice conversation about it.

    OTOH, one girl had on a Kiss shirt, so I asked her, and she didn’t even know that Kiss was a band. She just liked the shirt.

    Not everyone asking is looking to start an argument. Often we are just older music fans who are thrilled to see young people embracing the great rock music of the classic era, and want to talk to them about it. Engage those older music lovers, they may be able to tell you about other albums or artists you might like, or tell cool stories about shows they’ve been to. In my case, I worked for many years on the record biz, and have lots of stories of personal meetings and backstage experiences with truly legendary musicians. Young music lovers enjoy my stories, but if you responded with “name 5 women who trust you,” I’d just write you off as a defensive, confrontational jerk, and ignore you. No fun stories for you.

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      This is lovely and wholesome, but you’re not the type of person the post is about.

      Edit: sorry I just realised my comment was kinda glib, so let me elaborate. You didn’t specify but I assumed you approached those women with a friendly air, having a genuine desire to have a conversation with them as equals, and said something like “oh I love that album, have you listened to it?” Putting yourself in their shoes, compare that to a guy who approaches them aggressively, having a deep seated resentment for all women, and lashes out with “pretending you like that band huh? Prove it then, name 5 of their songs!”

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        Thank you for a common sense response to my post. The problem is that ALL standard-issue white boomer men like me have become the enemy, and we all take the blame for assholes who would behave poorly no matter what their sex, age, race, etc.

        I have become somewhat activist about sweeping generalizations about people. It isn’t right when MAGA Nazis disparage undocumented immigrants as a whole, and it isn’t right when young people or women, etc. disparage older white men as a whole. Most of us are decent reasonable people, it’s just that the jerks are far louder, so they get the attention.

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          This was disappointing to read. This post was talking about a specific type of person that was not you, it was not about “how all older white men are the enemy,” and you took it personally. When someone gently told you that you weren’t being targeted, you doubled down and got even more defensive.

          I’m sorry, but no one was making sweeping generalizations. We’re talking about a very specific situation that was never stated to be all men.

          I don’t understand how your feelings are hurt by a post that had nothing at all to do with you. Judging from your comment, you were never one of the bad ones this post was calling out. It’ll be okay. And there may be other situations where it makes sense to talk about blanket distrust of men that might make life harder for genuinely good guys, though it’s not relevant in this post specifically.

          But do you understand how offensive it comes off to equate MAGA Nazis on the same level as mens’ feelings being hurt? The rule of law is being ignored, people are being disappeared, we’re moving closer to Gilead, and the Lemkin Institute issued a genocide warning regarding MAGA blood libel and trans people. How are hurt feelings in any way comparable?

          I wish we could have one post in a woman-centric community sharing difficult situations without one of the good men lashing out because they felt personally attacked.

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          As a standard-issue white boomer man we should be mad at the assholes for being assholes and not the people who want to avoid the assholes.

          Those assholes make us look bad, and there’s not really anything we can do but speak up if and when we see it.

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            That’s the thing. I’ve never actually seen it in real life. Only in videos.

            Just spent four days at a metal festival, people are going to be excited if you have a shirt of a band they wanna watch too. Spent a bunch of time talking to people about the band shirt i was wearing. There where women involved and people of all ages. It was brilliant. At some point one guys asked around the table what our favorite songs where. No weird "stop a random and demand 5 songs. "I sometimes think this is an america-only occurance.

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        The Wall is my favorite album of all time, but DSOTM is still special. I only remember seeing two album covers for the first time - Sgt Pepper, and DSOTM.

        Back in the 70s and 80s, I worked in record stores, and DSOTM sold multiple times, every single day, even though it had been out for years, and they had three subsequent albums. I knew people who played it every day, and had to buy a new copy every year. I knew plenty of people who came to love music and record collecting after they first heard DSOTM, and it became their favorite album. It changed lots of lives.

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            Not bad, but not their very best. The Big 4: DSOTM, WYWH, Animals, The Wall are the peak with Meddle and The Final Cut as Honorable Mentions.

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              Coincidentally, I just listened to something vaguely floydy today. Tangerine Dream’s first album. Electronic Meditations.

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              Then we must agree to disagree.

              WYWH, yeah sure, on my top 5 list. And meddle, sure. And ummagumma and zabriski point.

              But ya, those others, not so much.

              That said.

              Who do you like that’s modern with a similar vibe? Some of M83, BOC for me maybe

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                Try mid-70s Yes - The Yes Album, Close to the Edge, Fragile.

                Also Rush, Tool, Emerson Lake & Palmer (Brain Salad Surgery).

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      I think the German saying „Der Ton macht die Musik.“ fits very well here. There is a massive difference between you bringing it up as an conversation starter and an incel jerk using it as a challenge.

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      Funnily enough, in your eagerness to rewrite the post to fit your own assumptions, you ignored the premise of the comments and the actual issue, proving the point entirely.

      Then you doubled down, just quality all around 💯👌

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      This is how to be a decent person. I’m glad there are people like you in the world.

      And yes the grandmother comment would have definitely hurt… oof.

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    I once knew a girl who shaved her head bald. Her default response to “Does the carpet match the drapes?” was “That depends, is my head bleeding?”

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        You’d be sickened to your core if you heard the kind of vile shit women get asked on the regular. Im on a certain kink website and it’s actually crazy seeing the sexual harassment on display.

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        I was a doorman at a popular niteclub, she was out partying damn near every weekend for a while, I saw it happen twice in person.

        Drunk people arent all that witty and they are very predictable.

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        Blonde and ginger women get asked plenty.
        I can easily see a shaved head elicit the same dubious approach.
        Any woman I’ve ever talked with has their fair share of weird, inappropriate crap thrown their way, this just par for the course.

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            I can’t really assess whether that question is common, because I am a man and no equivalent of it exists in french, my native language. So I would trust the commenter above that this is a common enough occurrence that their friend has a default response for it

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    Beethoven shirt. “Name five songs”, “sure, allegro, allegro vivace, scherzo, adagio, andante cantabile.”

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      To me, a dude, who’s been wearing band shirts for the past 18 years? Never.

      My girlfriend who buys band shirts at shows I take her to because she had just heard them for the first time and thought they sounded cool? Also never.

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        I wasn’t asking a particular gender. I was asking people in general. I don’t wear band shirts so I was curious what those who did had experienced. I’ve never witnessed it even when I was younger and band shirts were practically the dress code. The original screenshot isn’t even gendered so I’m not sure where this hostility is coming from.

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            The only gendered part about it was “especially as a young woman” which implies that either men or women could be asked that question. Unless something has changed recently and only women can wear band shirts now. But whatever, I’m sorry my post offended you. I didn’t intend for it to be dismissive towards women.

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      Nope. Every once in a long while someone will say “Nice shirt!”.

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      I had a person in the grocery store run up to me and recite the first half of a verse to me hoping I’d respond. I said something like “what?” as they pointed to my shirt and repeated themself. I then appropriately finished the verse and smiled.

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        You and I are very different people. I don’t care if I had the bands entire discography memorized, there is no way I’m rewarding that behavior.

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          I had a person come up to me at pride yesterday and blurt out something about my wardrobe. It was kind of awkward and my first response was to be defensive because I’ve received a lot of abuse in my life, but I remembered where I was and it enabled me to see that probably, this person did not mean me harm and just wanted to interact. We did and I made a new neurodivergent friend. Maybe we can both lighten the fuck up.

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          Aww, that’s a little sad. If somebody is so jazzed about a band that they get up the courage to sing in public, I can certainly return a few bars.

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      … no. Although 2ce when I wore death metal band t shirt while walking my dog a car started blasting one of their songs. At least I thought it was one of their songs…. I went to the show that time and saw them live and they were great so I wanted to support them by buying merch. I have a ton of shirts like that.

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    What a stupid response to a simple trivia quiz question. All you’re doing is red-flagging yourself by telling him you have trust issues with men.

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      Nobody wants to answer these snobbish fan checks. Anybody asking these kinds of questions is red-flagging themselves for a shit personality.

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      What a stupid response to a simple meme about countering an extremely common form of misogyny. All you’re doing is red-flagging yourself as a neckbearded dipshit who’s never once bothered to listen to a woman talk, and probably tries to gatekeep women from his interests.

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        As a married, straight, white man who has nieces and just in general knows some women, I have trust issues with men.

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    Suddenly realizing how many women I knew have come out as non-binary “Uhhh, uhhh… Well my wife? Wait, no, um, my friend? No, they’re not- uh,”

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    Nice notion, but won’t work.
    Those people will happily list every women they know, however distant.
    Many men don’t even have a concept for this kind of “trust”.

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        My girlfriend trusts me pretty much with her life, I think. Her mom, trusts me not to rob their house since I have a key (she lives with her parents) All the women I have a work related relationship with trust me at least to the extent of being in the same room together, I’m sure.

        So yeah, not hard to think of people who have an amount of trust to say the very least, but yeah, I too wonder how much trust the question is really asking about.

        It’s just like saying “I could care less” - pretty sure a lot of women I know COULD trust me less, than they currently do. Which means there is at least a minimal amount of trust there.

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      Who gives you the right to challenge if someone is truly “trusted” or not? You don’t know the person or the people they are citing, so you are just convicting men without any evidence at all.

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        Not OP, but men tell us themselves. They tell us when we’re in a relationship and they say that no one else ever understood them like we do. They tell us when we see them talk about their loneliness across the internet. To deny it is to deny the pain that so many men admit for themselves, albeit only when in private or anonymous spaces.

        A lot of men don’t have this deep trust in their lives, and I say this not out of malice but out of sympathy and concern. You deserve to know the kind of trust referenced here.

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          Valid, but you still can’t assume that’s the experience for EVERY man. Plenty of men are 100% trusted by those around them. My father was one of them. I have never spoken to anyone who didn’t view my father with true respect, including my mother. Trustworthy men exist, but women are taught to NEVER trust ANY man, no matter what. And BTW, plenty of women aren’t trustworthy either.

          If we can ever get the political issues in this country settled to some extent (wishful thinking), we need to focus on the war between the sexes.

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            1 day ago

            you still can’t assume that’s the experience for EVERY man.

            Yep, which is why the rest of us are using words like “many,” “most,” and “a lot of.”