I agree with whoever said people really don ' t know don ' t notice . This is going to show how much of a tool I was in high school , but here goes . A friend and I came to school and painted inverted crosses under our eyes . This friend also brought a bible one day and tore up burned it in our school courtyard while preaching from the remaining pages . Anyways , some of the gangster type dudes decided to take issue with our crosses , mainly because they just didn ' t like metal heads . I think they genuinely believed we were all homos , and Hispanic wannabe gangsters with inflated egos tend to lean on homophobic . So anyways we get shit for some dumb crosses , whatever . Meanwhile I have another friend who pretty much only wears metal shirts , usually cannibal corpse . No one bats an eye . TLDR people really don ' t give a shit unless they ' re right up on you and paying attention .