Who exactly were these bullies who wanted to kick KISS fans asses? We’re they disco dancing posers? Were they hard rock fans of Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple or Aerosmith?
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Chicago - the disco guys and the rock guys fought all the time. A friend of mine got the living shit kicked out of him for wearing a Rush T-shirt and he was on the wrestling team. It was 5 on 1.Soylent Gene wrote: ↑Tue Jan 15, 2019 9:59 pmI used to hear KISS Sucks all the time when I was a kid but no one ever threatened to beat me up over it. Where the hell did some of guys grow up that kids wanted to beat you up over a rock band???
It wasn't like there was some special case against KISS. It was just like anything else when you're a kid and you openly like something that most think is uncool. If there are enough douchebags around, you'll probably get teased for it. I'm sure people would've gotten the same reaction if they'd said they were still a fan of the Bay City Rollers back in 1979, or if they'd come to school wearing bell bottoms.johnsaidwhat wrote: ↑Thu Jan 17, 2019 10:42 amI always thought it was more of an urban myth maybe backed up by some scattered incidents and romanticized.
Damn I love this response!Wally Swift wrote: ↑Thu Jan 17, 2019 9:05 amMy sister-in-law often uses the fact that I'm a KISS fan as proof that I'm all the other evil things she imagines me to be. Miserable fat bitch is just jealous that my wife and I are going on 21 years of marriage and she got dumped after only a few years.
My father-in-law [now dead] was a piece of work. He put my sister-in-law on a pedestal and basically ignored or psychologically abused both my wife and her brother. My sister-in-law has a huge ego [bigger than her ass] and she has never been documented, ever saying "I'm sorry" for anything. She first entered my life when my wife and I were living in Europe. Freshly divorced she showed up in Europe initially only wanting to see my wife because her father had convinced her that I was the devil. I met her and did my best to win her over. I kinda did at first until one day when I was out sightseeing with her all day but my wife couldn't meet us until the following afternoon. We stayed in a hotel room in Prague that only had one bed. She was paying for it and being a gentleman I said that I would sleep on the floor. She insisted that it was fine, I should just sleep in the bed with her.BeachJediSC wrote: ↑Thu Jan 17, 2019 9:07 pmDamn I love this response!Wally Swift wrote: ↑Thu Jan 17, 2019 9:05 amMy sister-in-law often uses the fact that I'm a KISS fan as proof that I'm all the other evil things she imagines me to be. Miserable fat bitch is just jealous that my wife and I are going on 21 years of marriage and she got dumped after only a few years.
Rearrange the details just a bit, and it sounds just like a combination of 3 or 4 things I've been through regarding in-laws, and/or KISS, and/or having to listen to relatives yap their clueless traps about this, that, and the other being "satanic."
From a purely relatable standpoint, I'd probably be very entertained if you ranted about the back story behind what you described. \m/
Hah! I can relate for the opposite reason--I am tiny so no one ever dared to kick my ass or they might have accidentally killed me.scotty_rhoads wrote: ↑Thu Jan 17, 2019 11:38 ami've never heard those words. probably because i'm bigger than whoever asked if i was a kiss fan![]()
FlamingRuth wrote: ↑Fri Jan 18, 2019 11:28 amHah! I can relate for the opposite reason--I am tiny so no one ever dared to kick my ass or they might have accidentally killed me.scotty_rhoads wrote: ↑Thu Jan 17, 2019 11:38 ami've never heard those words. probably because i'm bigger than whoever asked if i was a kiss fan![]()
I often felt isolated, but I never got physically picked on for liking Kiss. I just got the occasional condescending remark like "Are those guys still around??"
Or "You still like Kiss?" ...which I occasionally hear to this day.
For a short time when I was 11 or 12, I went through a tom-boyish phase that must have concerned my aunts because I remember a couple of them telling me that "Girls don't like Kiss!" and "Kiss is for boys!"![]()
Luckily that phase didn't last long for any of us.
The comment I hear most often is, "But you don't look like a Kiss fan"....which baffles me because I don't know what a Kiss fan is "supposed" to look like.![]()