Lace Equals Leather

Robert Walser posits in Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, that boys dressing as girls in glammy metal bands like the New York Dolls and early Motley Crue is a really a form of intense rebellion and rebellion is the stuff of masculinity so it follows that the guy up there on stage strutting in a lacy thong is actually displaying a sort of hyper-masculinity.Deena Weinstein in the same film equates freedom and masculinity, uncuffing yourself from gender norms and expectation is therefore the ultimate masculine expression, like rebel peacocks.

Blood and Thunder

Not so much for the ridiculous metal clowns, but for the riffs.