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THE AMON AMARTH VIKING BEARD CONTEST: FEMALE RULE UPDATE!

 Wednesday, January 5th, 2011 at 3:00pm by

There seemed to be quite a bit of outrage in response to the Amon Amarth Viking Beard Contest we announced yesterday. In its original incarnation the contest was only going to be open to men, but in an effort to include women in the fun as well we came up with the pubic hair idea at the last minute. It was well-intentioned but wrongly received, and those of you who expressed anger that men only have to show their face while women have to show their privates are certainly justified in feeling that way. It was sexist of us to request those kinds of entries on an unequal playing field, and we apologize.

We’d still like to keep the contest open to women, though; instead of growing out the hair around your nether regions, women are encouraged to grow and/or style their armpit hair or leg hair to enter this contest! The photo submission guidelines at the beginning and end of the contest remain the same.

Additionally, there were now be two identical prize packages, thus leveling the playing field even more; one for men, one for women.

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  • Chainsword

    …

  • Vakarm

    Out of curiosity:

    How many female readers of Metalsucks seriously want a chance to win this contest??

    • Noskaj

      More curiosity:

      How many female readers on Metalsucks are there?

      • RoXoR

        I’d say not many for both questions

        • http://multimedia-ami.deviantart.com amelia

          Yeah, but we’re still here.

          • Hetallica

            Haut.

      • saqdancer

        bout as many as r at the shows…so…3 or 4

      • http://multimedia-ami.deviantart.com amelia

        Ya know, I think this needs to be a poll.

        • Jillian

          Another girl here!

    • Kristin Pierce

      me too :] not trying to be annoying and ask for adds, but i’d like to chat with other female metalheads . you can add me on facebook. i’m Kristin L pierce. :]

  • jadedkid

    I understand their gripe. But in all honesty a Gnarly Vag beard is like 50 times more metal than either of these options. Just sayin…

    • glorious johnson

      100% Agreed! Fuck being PC, if you dont have a sense of humor you should go eat a hairy shit covered vagina

      • chris

        1

    • Nick

      “just sayin” ….can you be any more unoriginal with your use of phrases? I feel like I am in a room with middle school kids.

      • Sin and Death

        Yeah, because crapping on people for being unoriginal is totally originally.

        • joshkid

          + fucking 1

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Liz-Ashby/100001907215781 Liz Ashby

      hahahaa i agree, plus its something we can hide, not like armpits or leg hair, i think we should get a choice to do the vag shot if we want too haha plus im going to 70000tons, I dont want to look like a hairy beast in a bathing suit on a cruise haha

  • Jamie

    are you guys serious?

    fuck equality it’s a BEARD contest

    theycan win the same way a guy can

    BY GROWING A BEARD

    what’s that? they can’t?

    TOO FUCKING BAD

    you aren’t being sexist, they’re being picky and american

    • zulcon

      so…what you’re saying is the premise of the contest was biased from the start?

      • Jamie

        what im saying is suck my balls

  • Ray Peterson212

    Seriously who ever fucking complained about females showing their “private” parts go FUCK YOURSELF.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dan-Burton/784250631 Dan Burton

      Well, the fact that really, the guys who write Metalsucks are just guys like us who happened to ‘get lucky’ and do their blog right, asking for pictures of vaginas could be seen as pretty fucking creepy.

  • cougar party

    Jesus Christ some of you guys are total pussies. Find something worthwhile to complain about.

  • canea

    Who cares if it’s sexist. You can’t do or say anything anymore without some woman jumping all over it and bitching. It was a metal idea and this is a metal site. Don’t cave to the pussies (pun intended).

  • Shinaain

    You’re all forgiven. Thank you.

    However, I will say I hope anyone who’s, um, “follically-challenged”(?) will do something like the guy who wanted the Slayer set did: something epically awesome and completely unexpected.

    Viking skateboarding in Compton, anyone? Video, or it didn’t happen.

  • Strapping Young Lad

    I’ve never seen a vagina before and I wasn’t going to start here! Thank goodness for the change of rules!!!!

    • SquidKite

      Are you old enough to be here?

      • Strapping Young Lad

        of course not!!!!!!

  • MonochromicSound

    Wow, totally not metal. Way to be pussies guys.

    I’m 20 and still can’t grow a full beard, so do I get a special contest too? How about my taint hair? Could I photograph that and win? If the fucking people who complained about vag shots, which you even stated they could censor any of their parts, didn’t like the contest so much, they shouldn’t fucking enter it, that simple.

  • ACoffinShip

    I AM ANGRY ON THE INTERNET ABOUT NOT SEEING GNARLY VAG BEARDS.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Shannon-Wright/584315430 Shannon Wright

      \m/

  • Driven9

    metal chicks (the vast majority) are fuckin gross enough… please dont encourage this behavior.

    • http://multimedia-ami.deviantart.com amelia

      Right, ’cause beards are totally 100% clean and sanitary all the time and are never disgusting to anyone.

    • http://multimedia-ami.deviantart.com amelia

      My faith in MS has been restored. It’s great when people can be humble enough to apologize and reform.

      And to the idiots saying it’s weak and un-metal to give in to the rightly given opposition, are you saying it is metal to be sexist? It is metal to be aloof pricks? It’s un-metal to be able to apologize?

      • http://multimedia-ami.deviantart.com amelia

        Wait, this was supposed to be posted as a separate comment…..

  • wha?

    Who says women can’t grow facial hair?? No waxing for a month.

  • buttcheese

    this: “Additionally, there were now be two identical prize packages,”

  • Em

    Thank you.

    • Emily

      Agreed.

  • Stephen H. Martin

    What’s wrong with being sexy?

    • http://www.omimetal.wordpress.com The Greys

      “Sex-IST!”

      (good use of the Spinal Tap quote, Stephen)

  • B-dizzle

    LESS DISCUSSION, MORE GNARLY VAGINA BEARDS

  • Ebony Sorrow

    How these women managed to get sand in their vaginas in fucking January is beyond me. Must be the West Coasters

  • Charlie

    Good. Now I can shave my legs instead of my beard, pose as a female, AND have a monstrously higher chance of winning.

    Wait, what are we winning again?

  • Primateforever

    I’m sure some armpits will be mistaken for vaginas anyway…

  • shocktroop

    I’m outraged because this contest discriminates against all of us who already have awesome viking beards. and I sure as hell ain’t shaving my face clean to enter.

  • Skanes

    I wanna see some sick pussy-beards!

  • Howie

    “… we came up with the pubic hair idea at the last minute. It was well-intentioned but wrongly received…”

    Probably the best quote of all time.

  • pigchop

    Ya’ buncha’ pussies – Caving in like this. Why not tell the ‘outraged’ portion of readers to ‘go fuck yourselves if you don’t like it’…?

  • Jamie

    Amelia, you’re stupid. Would you really even enter? Do you even know who Amon Amarth is?

    Furthermore, it’s not about whose ‘metal’ it’s about little girls crying and sending emails because they’re offended by a contest they probably wouldn’t enter on a site they probably dont read

    • http://multimedia-ami.deviantart.com amelia

      aha ha ha.

      • Jamie

        laugh it up atleast i can grow a beard!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kelly-Howard/100000535722377 Kelly Howard

    This is obviously a contest for GUYS. Although we would like to think we should be involved in everything that happens, this clearly is not for us ladies. Leave it to the men… please.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Pantalon-dAndy/680170069 Pantalon d’Andy

      I agree. But it was still pretty asinine to ask for pube pics.